'Venus is a fast moving planet, making a full circuit of the Sun approximately every 20 months. A transit of Venus to a natal planet or angle is therefore only a one day event, which may not materialize into anything more than having a pleasant encounter or two.

A retrograde Venus transit is a more significant event though because when retrograde it travels back and forth over the same degrees of the zodiac three times.'

'This week very early on Friday, October 8 (about 2 am CDT), the planet Venus will be turning retrograde.  A retrograde planet has three distinct phases: slowing down to a crawl, the actual stop where it reverses direction called stationary retrograde, and then the entire retrograde period.  The peak of the event is always experienced at the station, right in the middle.

'Venus in the 12th house, Venus in Pisces, Venus-Neptune aspects and Neptune in the 7th house can manifest in similar ways, because Neptune, the 12th house, and Pisces are all related energies and because Venus rules the 7th house of relationships. (Neptune in Libra–a placement shared by a whole generation–can have some of these qualities as well if it’s strong in the chart.)'

'This research project formed the core of my doctoral studies. My thesis title was "Applications of astrology to health psychology: astrological and psychological factors and fertility treatment outcome. " I was registered for the degree at the University of Southampton, UK, from February 2000 until it was awarded to me in the autumn of 2006.'

A horary chart for this kind of question can be constructed both for the moment we discover that an object is missing and for the time when an astrologer hears or reads the question posed to him. The simplest way to predicting whether the missing or stolen object will be found or retrieved is by delineating the luminaries. If in the chart of a question or an event the Moon in a nocturnal or the Sun in a diurnal chart closely aspect their rulers the object will be returned to its owner.