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Mercury and Venus Returns

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Learning objectives

✦Explain why Mercury and Venus return roughly once a year, usually near the season of the Sun's return, and how retrograde motion can produce three returns or a longer interval
✦When retrograde motion creates multiple returns, distinguish between reading each chart as it becomes active and treating all of them as one chapter; name your method and use it consistently
✦Use each return planet's house, the return Ascendant, direct or retrograde motion, and contacts from faster planets to explore Mercury themes of thought and communication and Venus themes of relationships and values, then compare Venus's eight-year cycle and place both returns under the solar return

In Lunar Returns and the Monthly Emotional Cycle, you connected roughly thirteen monthly charts into an emotional timeline and practiced writing down an expectation before comparing it with what happened afterward. The Moon returns home every 27.3 days, almost like clockwork.

Mercury and Venus are less punctual. They usually return to their natal positions about once a year, but sometimes pass three times in a few weeks, while at other times more than a year goes by between returns. This lesson answers four questions: Why do these returns cluster around your birthday? How does retrograde motion make their timing irregular? Which chart should you use when there are multiple returns? And how do you read Mercury and Venus returns?

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