You didn’t fail the Jupiter and Venus Conjunction: Here’s What Actually Happened

For some of us the Jupiter / Venus conjunction in Cancer left us feeling a little like we were crawling out of a moving trashfire on the highway.

We didn't get the breakthrough abundance and flow of love were expecting to receive during the "greatest transit of 2026.”

This is because the Lunar Nodes, in the mutable signs of Virgo and Pisces, were squaring Uranus.

And with Uranus being co-present with the mutable Gemini Sun, this was a recipe for unavoidable change and an invitation to let some things fall apart so that they can have a more honest, more sure foundation.

Remember, Pluto is still cleaning up our unconscious social contracts and compulsory co-dependency and is trining Uranus, the planet of revolution and erratic change in mutable Gemini which quickens this reality.

We’re going to be in this soup for a few years–updating and reimagining our social contracts while straddling our relationship between virtual metaworlds and hyperlocality.

So, yes, while yesterdays new moon in Gemini had a creative lightness to it, this moon also took us to the depths to illuminate the deepest places where we cling to expiring stories and dynamics the with people, places, and communities that are closest to us.

It illuminated for us what happens inside of us when things need to change.

When things change, can we hold our own center and we stay grounded and resourced? If not, that’s actually okay.

These transits invite us to look at this too, hyperindendence is not synonymous with healing or maturation. We do need people, but how can we need each other consciously?

How can we lean into conscious interdependence when things change?

Dwarf planet, Ceres, mother of Kore / Persephone, is also implicated in the transits right now because she is currently conjunct Uranus in Gemini and is also squaring the Lunar Nodes.

Mythologically, this connects us to why the Jupiter / Venus in Cancer transit took us so fucking deep and, in some cases, brought up insurmountable grief and a deeper look into how we give and receive care, which are also very Cancerian themes.

You didn’t fail the Jupiter / Venus conjunction in Cancer transit.

There was just more going on ❤️

For many of us, this transit brings up the tenderest core wounds around abandonment, safety, and where and with whom we find refuge and resource.

With the Lunar Nodes squaring Ceres and Uranus, some of us were faced with a confrontation about where we dissociate or go “offline” or don’t share our needs because we don’t want to lose people.

This transit was less about boundaries and more about the tender complexity of being met, known, cared for, and loved through all of our multitudes and dimensions.

Plus, it doesn’t always work to separate a single transit from everything else that is happening astrologically or to expect that a transit will impact you in the exact way your astrologer’s horoscope said it would.

Transits are complex mythological forces. And the way we relate to them and story them “powers” the archetypes to enact in certain ways throughout our lives.

Astrology is a meta-narrative system. The flavor of the transits will always be filtered through mythos, the culture, the times, tv and film, and our own personal mythology, too.

Additionally, I know people don’t always expect Gemini transits to go so deep, but we also have to remember that Gemini is mutable and ruled by Mercury, a trickster and a psychopomp who guides us down into the underworld. The “lightness” of Gemini is a trickster mirage. Gemini will always be guiding and illuminating shadow behind community, social constructs, and societal norms.

And because the Gemini sun has been trining Pluto in Aquarius, there is more emphasis here. The court jester exposes the underbelly using whatever technology he has.

Personally speaking, the underbelly for these transits has been located inside of our social contracts, expectations, and norms.

Eluding to my previous post on Pluto, we are being asked to clean up and become more conscious about the “giving and receiving” part of relationships. We’re being asked to look at what parts we play and what masks we put on to negotiate feeding our hungry ghosts.