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♀ Venus project — every summary and video →Venus: the last Scorpio star point
The five-petalled rose Venus draws every eight years, the star point leaving Scorpio for the first time in our lives, Inanna's descent — and the research on love, values and belonging.
15 October 2026 13 min read ▶ 71-min video 35 sources · 16 peer-reviewed
In brief
Every 584 days Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun, and five of those meetings take almost exactly eight years — joined in order, they draw a pentagram around the zodiac. On 24 October 2026 the October point of that star falls at 0°45′ Scorpio: the last Venus star point in Scorpio until 2181. We computed the sky behind Gary P. Caton's interview, checked the history and the myth, and gathered what research says about Venus's domain of love, values and belonging.
Learn from the source
Gary P. Caton
Astrologer and author of Hermetica Triptycha, the books on Mercury and Venus behind the planet entries.
His books follow the planets' real cycles in the sky — the phases our Mercury and Venus summaries measure.
Five meetings with the Sun, eight years
The five-petalled rose
Venus overtakes the Earth every 583.92 days — its synodic cycle, evening star to morning star and back. Five of those cycles take 2,919.6 days, only 2.4 days short of eight years, because 13 Venus orbits almost exactly match 8 of ours: a near-resonance, not a lock. Plot Venus around the Earth for eight years and it draws five loops; join the five places it meets the Sun, in time order, and a pentagram appears. Draw a line between the two planets every few days and a five-petalled rose blooms — the backdrop of this summary, computed from our own ephemeris.
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7 sections, 10 diagrams, the video with its chapters, 14 claims checked against the research, 35 sources with the names of the people who did the work and links to it — and downloads in PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- 🔒 The last Scorpio star point of our lives
- 🔒 Venus turns back with Mercury
- 🔒 Venus retrograde and money
- 🔒 Inanna's descent
- 🔒 Purging the solar figures
- 🔒 Venus's domain: love, values, belonging
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