This report offers an overview of Venus-Mars conjunctions in Aquarius. It includes data on frequency and distribution by degree, the motion of Venus, as well as a review of history and trivia on the dates the aspect perfected in recent times.

Venus-Mars Conjunctions in Aquarius

Venus-Mars conjunct every 1.2 years on average*. Subject to their respective retrograde cycles and relative speed, they have periodic serial conjunctions. For example we are currently inside a series of 3 consecutive ones occurring 2021-2022 in Leo, Capricorn and Aquarius.*

*Based on Ven-Mar conjunctions data between 500 BC and 2500 AD

**Tropical placements – Western astrology

The upcoming Aquarius conjunction is notable due to the fact that the following conjunction (happening two years later, in 2024), will also be taking place in this sign. It is also a part of a cluster of Saturn-ruled conjunctions taking place between 2022 and 2029, mentioned later in this report.

Let’s take a look through data and history available on Venus-Mars conjunctions in Aquarius.

Previous Venus and Mars conjunctions in Aquarius

• The most recent Venus-Mars conjunction in Aquarius took place on December 22nd 1997 at 3 AQU 37.
• February 19th 1992 Venus and Mars conjoined at 1 AQU 00.
• Before these, they last met in Aquarius on January 9th 1966 and January 24th 1934.

December 22nd 1997

December 22nd 1997 in history

• Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
• Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
• Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
• Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5 – refer to their story during an earlier Ve-Mar conjunction in Capricorn in 1994
• MTV removes music video for Prodigy’s song “Smack My Bi**ch Up” from broadcast rotation

Famous Deaths
• Douglas Ranger, British surgeon, dies of coronary infarction at 81
• John Pinkerton, English computer scientist who designed the first business computer in England, the LEO computer, dies at 78; The LEO I (Lyons electronic office I) was the first computer used for commercial business applications.
• Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford, dies at 67

References:
https://www.onthisday.com/date/1997/december/22https://takemeback.to/06-January-1994
https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:381043/one?qu=%22rcs%3A+E008860%22&rt=false%7C%7C%7CIDENTIFIER%7C%7C%7CResource+Identifier

Collective vibes and trends for December 22nd 1997

• Music – US : Something About The Way You Look Tonight by Elton John. UK: Perfect Day by Various Artists was in the top 5 hits.
• Movies – Finding North, was one of the most viewed movies released
• Books – The Ghost by Danielle Steel was one of the best selling books.
• TV shows – Robot Wars.
• Videogames – Cleopatra Fortune and Doom 64.

(Sourced from: https://takemeback.to/22-December-1997 )

February 19th 1992

5 years earlier, in 1992, Venus and Mars perfected a conjunction at 1 AQU 00.

February 19th 1992 in history

• Ken Ludwig’s musical “Crazy For You” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances
• Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992
• Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie

References: https://www.onthisday.com/date/1992/february/19

Collective vibes and trends for February 19th 1992

• Music – US : I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred. In UK Stay by Shakespeare’s Sister was in the top 5 hits
• Movies – Diên Biên Phú, directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, was one of the most viewed movie released in 1992
• Books – Line Of Fire by W. E. B. Griffin was one of the best selling books.
• Videogames – Championship Hockey and 3-Pun Yosō Umaban Club

(Source: https://takemeback.to/19-February-1992)

January 9th 1966

What happened on January 9th 1966

• A radar signal was successfully bounced off of the planet Venus and

The Lovell Telescope, UK; Image by Mike Peel; Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester., CC BY-SA 4.0

detected on its return to Earth, for the first time. The returning signal was picked up on the 76 metre (249 ft) diameter Lovell Telescope.

Additional info on Radio astronomy can be found here: A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR: A Collection of Scientific Essays p213.

• The foundation stone for the Aswan Dam was laid down in Egypt
• Australian troops began breaking into the Cu Chi tunnels that allowed troops from the north to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• Tom Hayden, Herbert Aptheker and Staughton Lynd, returned to the United States after being the first Americans to be invited to tour North Vietnam.
• Seven sailors on board a Chinese landing craft mutinied, but in the ensuing gun battle only three people, all defectors, survived. Taiwan President Chiang Kai-shek proclaimed the three mutineers as heroes, and sent a Defense Ministry seaplane to transport them from Matsu. As the seaplane was flying back to Taiwan, Chinese MiG jets intercepted it and shot it down, killing everyone on board.
• The 37th National Board of Review Awards were announced, with The Eleanor Roosevelt Story winning Best Film.
• Died: Ladislav Prokeš, 81, Czech chess player

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1966#January_6,_1966_(Thursday)

Collective vibes and trends for January 9th 1966

• Music – US: We Can Work It Out by The Beatles; UK: Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out by The Beatles was also in the top 5 hits.

• Movies – The Wise Guys, directed by Robert Enrico, was one of the most viewed movie released in 1966 ; at the time however it was Thunderball that was the box office No1 in the US
• Books – Those Who Love by Irving Stone was one of the best-selling books. In US The Source by James Michener was listed as the NYT bestseller

References:
https://takemeback.to/09-January-1966
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1966_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Best_Sellers_of_1966

Venus-Mars conjunctions in Aquarius – frequency, degrees and the motion of Venus

A data review of 3000 years between 500BC and 2500 AD has shown that Venus-Mars will have been conjunct in Aquarius 158 times. That is 6.5% of all Venus-Mars conjunctions (2431) in this time-span. A summary of the report this data is drawn from is linked at the end of this article.

Based on data between 500 BC and 2500 AD Venus and Mars are seen to conjunct anywhere between 2 and 9 times per each degree of Aquarius. On average they join in this sign 5 times per each degree set.

The most active degrees (within the 3000-year span under study) are 1-2 and 27-28, while degree 12-13 has seen only 2 conjunctions in total.

Venus-Mars conjunction in Aquarius in March 2022

We are currently anticipating a conjunction at 0 AQU 01 on March 6th 2022. It comes 25 years since the pair was last meeting in this sign.

Venus-Mars conjunctions at 0 degrees Aquarius

The last time Venus and Mars were conjunct around 0 AQU was

• 28 Dec 1365 at 0 AQU 25

While these greater cycles do likely “matter”, they are very long and not immediately relevant to the individual human experience.

Venus motion during conjunctions – Aquarius

From our recently completed data report on Venus-Mars conjunctions:

Venus Retrograde conjunct Mars

“Between 500AD and 2500BC we will have had 382 conjunctions with Venus RX – that is around 16% of all their conjunctions in this timeframe.”

33 or 9% of those conjunctions are in Aquarius.

The most recent Venus RX conjunct Mars in Aquarius was on January 9th 1966 and before that January 24th 1934.  The next one isn’t until Feb 21st 2137.

Venus (at station) conjunct Mars

Venus ST conjunct Mars in Aquarius two times in the time span between 500 BC and 2500 AD: in 90BC and in 1125 AD. We are not due for another one within the study timeframe.

From our report (summary here) on Venus-Mars conjunctions over a course of 3000 years:

“Between 500BC and 2500AD only 14 conjunctions will have occurred at Venus station.

• The next time this happens will be Nov 11, 2034 with Venus stationary at 20 LIB 27
• The last time this occurred is Feb 3 1755 at 16 CAP 27

The most conjunctions that occurred during a Venus station happened in Capricorn (3/14) and 2 each in Taurus, Libra and Aquarius

This means that a third of signs (total of 4 Venus and Saturn ruled signs) receive 64.3% of all conjunctions during Venus station (during the period under study)”.

Saturn-ruled Venus-Mars conjunctions 2022-2029

We are currently inside the zone of Saturn-ruled Venus-Mars conjunctions between 2022 and 2029 with 4 occurring in Capricorn and 2 in Aquarius. The next time they will cluster in these two signs will be in 2054-2059.

Following their conjunction in Capricorn on February 16th, Venus and Mars enter Aquarius in unison, after which they perfect a fresh conjunction there by March 6^th 2022. At that time, the Moon will be in Taurus about to conjunct Uranus, the modern ruler of Aquarius.

2 years later, in March 2024 we welcome a second consecutive conjunction in Aquarius within this cycle.

Further Reading on Venus-Mars conjunctions and cycles

• Ruperti, Alexander, Cycles of Becoming, Earthwalk School of Astrology, Santa Monica, USA, 2005.
• Finey, Michele. The Sacred Dance of Venus and Mars. The Wessex Astrologer.
• Blaschke, Robert P., Aberrations in the Venus-Mars Cycle, as published in TMA, 2010
• Caton, Gary P., Cosmos and Chaos – Perpetual tides of the Venus-Mars Epoch (Essay); published in “The Ascendant”, The Official Journal of the Association of Young Astrologers, 2014
• Caton, Gary P., the 300 Year Venus-Mars Epoch. (For links to a selection of Caton’s work please contact him directly on http://www.dreamastrologer.com/ )
• Martineau, John, A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System, Walker Publishing Co., New York, 2001.

Data references by sign and degree of the sign in this piece are sourced from Sky Unfolding report “3000 years of Venus-Mars conjunctions by sign and degree – an astrological data set” (V1 Feb 11 2022).

Summary of the report

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Sandra Hill is a professional researcher and writer. She has devoted the last 10 years to the study of Western astrology.

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