Astro Stories

  What’s the difference between Venus in Aries and Mars in Libra?  What’s the difference between a girl who makes the first step and a boy who hesitates?  Could we avoid talking about gender roles, when talking about Venus and Mars? No.  If identity politics reached as high as Mount Olympus, Ares and Aphrodite, aka Mars and Venus, would be the last ones to tell their pronouns when introducing themselves.  What is a Goddess? To this question, Aphrodite’s answer is a smile and a movement of the hips.  And what is a God? Mars smiles like he is saying: “The answer would kill you!” One attracts and the other pursues. One is beautiful and the other is strong. One binds and the other breaks.    Venus and Mars live as archetypes in the human psyche. They represent some ideal of what it means to be a woman or a man.  The anti-poets would say these ideals are “social constructs”. Venus and Mars are not buildings in my opinion. They grew organically....