02/12/25

At 01:06 PT today, Venus slipped into a harmonious sextile with Pluto, and the energy feels like a quiet doorway opening, one that leads inward rather than out. There’s something unmistakably intimate about this transit. Venus softens the heart, while Pluto reaches straight into its depth, reminding us that the most powerful transformations rarely begin in the outside world. They begin in the quiet corners of our own inner landscape.

With Pluto’s insight and Venus’s empathy working together, you can read your birth chart with a clearer lens, noticing the patterns and potentials that usually hide beneath the surface. It becomes less about prediction and more about understanding, less about fate and more about self-discovery.

As beautiful as romantic love is, and as comforting as the fantasy of a soulmate can be, the truth is that the only person who remains with you through every sunrise, every shift, every unraveling and rebuilding, is yourself. You wake up with you. You go to sleep with you. You carry your memories, your desires, your lessons, and your longings in a way no one else ever will.

Today’s cosmic alignment doesn’t just highlight this truth; it magnifies it.

There’s a tenderness in realizing that self-love isn’t merely a spiritual ideal or a modern mantra, but the foundation from which every other kind of love grows. The standards you set, the boundaries you honor, the respect you cultivate for yourself, all of it becomes the well you draw from. When that well is full, everything in your life benefits. And when it’s empty, everything feels slightly out of tune, no matter how much beauty surrounds you.

Venus sextile Pluto has a way of showing us the parts of ourselves we’ve been avoiding, but with compassion rather than force. You may feel more aware of your needs today, or more honest about what you truly desire. Old patterns might rise to the surface. not to haunt you, but to be understood and released. Pluto doesn’t reveal for the sake of drama; it reveals for the sake of healing.

This moment invites you to sit with yourself and reflect on how you’ve been loving yourself lately. Are you offering yourself grace? Are you listening when your body and heart whisper? Are you holding yourself to a standard rooted in self-worth or in old wounds? These questions become softer under today’s energy, easier to approach without judgment.

The love you cultivate within becomes a reservoir that naturally spills into every part of your life. It shapes what you allow in, what you pursue, and what you gently choose to walk away from.

Today’s transit encourages a kind of emotional honesty that feels both empowering and vulnerable. It nudges you toward meaningful conversations, deeper introspection, and a willingness to be real with yourself. It’s a reminder that transformation doesn’t require grand gestures, sometimes all it takes is a moment of truth, a pivot in how you treat yourself, a decision to choose something better.