The phenomenal event of Venus' transit across the Sun happened on the 6th June 2012. Witnessed by many Australians, and excitedly captured by me on my Canon EOS50D with a Tamron 200-500mm zoom lens and a welding mask!
The original pic which I will post here, is green - due to the tint through the welding mask, but I have also adjusted the image to Yellow, to more accurately represent the Sun!
You can view this link here to find out more about the transit of Venus and the live stream...
Venus' transit across the sun as witnessed from behind a Welding Mask...
The black spot on the lower left part of the Sun... is Venus!
and altering only the colour and brightness to more resemble the Sun in its purest form!
This bright image below was taken before I found the correct setting as viewed in the image above!
And if you are interested in a more spiritual view of this event... see below written by
| Rebecca Dettman 01/06/2012
If you’re a spiritual person, you’ve probably been living under a rock
if you haven’t heard about this week’s Venus Transit. No, it doesn’t represent
(another) apocalypse or the coming of aliens, but it IS a fascinating energetic completion. Miss Psychette is here
to walk you through the cosmic ins-and-outs.
A transit is… When a
planet passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, so that it appears to be
crossing the face of the Sun face, a bit like a tiny solar eclipse. The Venus
Transits cycle is a rare celestial event that occur in a pattern that repeats
every 243 years when Venus eclipses the Sun two times – at the beginning and at
the end of eight-year periods. Hence, Venus crossed the Sun back in June 8,
2004, which purportedly brought the ‘Return of the Goddess’ (a re-awakening to
the importance of ancient feminine energies, as described for the masses in The
Da Vinci Code), and she’s been drawing a pentagram shape in the sky ever
since (the movement and pattern that Venus traces around the ecliptic in her
eight-year astronomical cycle forms a pattern that is a five-pointed star).
This week, on June 6, she makes her grand return…
and won’t be repeating the trick until December11, 2117, when presumably no one
today will be alive to experience it for a second time. This particular transit
is extra special because Venus has been out of bounds at her furthermost
Northern point (which will not happen again until 2239) between April 2-3 until
June 4-5, 2012… and in this transit, Venus is actually coming back from that
point, back into bounds literally only an hour before she begins her transit of
the Sun.
Spiritual types think that… This
Venus Transit represents an acceleration of evolution and consciousness; an
opportunity for personal and global transformation. Since the 2004-2012 Venus
Transit coincides with the Uranus-in-Pisces cycle, humankind’s intuitive
communication abiltiies have been rapidly developing… and when Venus, the
Goddess of Love, mingles her energies with the Sun, representing Light, what
you get is a very profound coming together of Love and Light – woohoo! – and
it’s expected that we will feel the impacts of this portal for a long time
to come.
Some people believe that a doorway opened during
the June 8, 2004 Venus Transit that will close on June 6, 2012, while others
look to the Mayan “Long Count Calendar”, in which the Venus Transit is regarded
by many as the celestial signal that the “Great Transformation of the Closing
of the Cycle” has begun. Indeed, this Venus Transit is taking place right
between Taurus’ horns, very near the galactic cross… the galactic edge. The
ancients knew that this alignment was showing the turning of an age.
This
website sums it all up brilliantly: “[Venus Transit]
is the first part of the major Realignment that will take us through the 2012
portal and into the New Earth Reality beyond. And the key word is Realignment.
We are all being realigned and recalibrated on the Light Body level so that we
can raise our consciousness and our personal frequencies to the levels that
will allow us to be comfortable and happy in the New Earth. So, what this
means, in “real” terms, is that many of us are facing major challenges with
regards to money, homes, relationships and work, all those very basic things in
our lives in the 21st century.” Hands up who’s been grappling with big
emotional challenges and changes recently! Interestingly, next week’s shift is
also associated with physical aches, pains and flu-like symptoms (which myself
and my little girl are both experiencing right now). FASCINATING.
In terms of love… Venus
(the planet of Love and the Divine Feminine) connecting with the Sun (energies
of the Divine Masculine) is going to evolve our gender politics to a whole new
duality. It assist in clearing old wounds remaining on Earth that first took
place long ago, as this
website excellently explains: “For thousands of
years, the world has been ruled by patriarchal societies. These masculine
rulers have created wars, power struggles, destruction, pollution, fear, pain,
separation and famine. They have shown little or no respect for feminine wisdom
or our Mother Earth. The patriarchal organizations of the world have repressed
most knowledge of women’s roles in world history… It is time for the pendulum
to swing back towards the Divine Feminine and rest comfortably in the middle.
To become whole, we need both the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine
energies equally in our lives.”
The mere fact that Venus eclipses in front of the
Sun symbolises our need to consider the feminine expression FIRST, before the
masculine, to get us out of old habits once and for all and bring about a new
level of consciousness for humanity… a new way that is no longer about
competitive masculine energies, but cooperative feminine energies. In your own
life? This will probably mean deeper honesty will be needed in your
relationships. And Mystic
Medusa‘s take? “The Transit Of Venus: A karmic love
scenario is abroad in your life – it began in the last
six weeks or so and essentially you have met someone with whom you have shared
a previous existence. It’s surreal, weird and meant to be.”
In terms of creativity…
Venus has been out of bounds, in the energy of
boundless creativity – thinking beyond the box, dissolving our boundaries of
what we think is normal. Her return means a massive charge in the creative and
artistic sides of our natures, catalysing previously hidden, latent, artistic
talent and creative abilities.
In terms of communication… Astrologically,
Venus represents our relationships with others – and hence the ways in which we
communicate. Past Venus Transits have seen major shifts in world
communications, such as 1761 (a collaboration of astronomers at 77 observation
points from all over the world to determine the distance from Earth to the Sun)
and 1874 (completion of the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable that created the
first intercontinental communications by wire between the East and the West).
This time around, we’ve already had a booming Information Technology Revolution
(thanks, Steve Jobs)… the question is, how can we use all our increased
communication opportunities for better, higher, more spiritually enlightened
results?
Don’t forget… This
week’s Venus Transit is preceded by an AWESOME Full Moon/Partial Lunar Eclipse
Sun in Gemini 14º and SuperMoon in Sagittarius 14º Monday, June 4… helping to
release your past and embrace your light!
Namaste...
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