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Venus & Jupiter in Cancer| August 11 + Zodiacal Perspectives

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Jamie James
Aug 11, 2025
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When Venus joins Jupiter in Cancer, the meeting is not simply a lovers’ embrace under a star-swept sky… it is a reckoning in the kitchen of the soul, where two entirely different recipes for life are vying for the same pot.

On one counter: the warm bread of belonging, its scent familiar, its taste already memorized by your bones… on the other: an unmarked jar, filled with something wild, foreign, and unsettling—an ingredient from the infinite that refuses to be named until it’s tasted.

This is a conjunction not of easy harmony, but of radical polarization…

Venus, with her devotion to beauty, pleasure, and the known rhythms of affection, stands face-to-face with Jupiter’s vast appetite for the unfamiliar, the unbounded, the not-yet-lived—here, the soul is split between the comfort of the world you know and the unbearable pull of worlds you cannot yet comprehend.

The temptation, at first…

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