Use Venus to Make New Year’s Resolutions That Stick

by Jessica Shepherd

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The New Year, and its promise of starting over, dangles the carrot of a clean slate in front of us. We want to lose weight, finally start meditating, drink less, make more time for friendships and family… the list is as universal as it is personal. It’s so important to take our desire to be happier seriously, yet sadly far too many resolutions don’t pan out. As sure as the winter snow will melt with the weather, so too, does our resolve. We often blame ourselves: our lack of willpower, consistency, and steadfastness. In reality we just may be failing to think with our Venus.

We don’t normally connect Venus with will, resolve, and discipline. Venus, being the lush of the Zodiac, is inclined toward pleasure, beauty, and enjoying the good life. Saturn is the harsh taskmaster, and with the Sun in Capricorn and Aquarius, Saturn’s signs, for January and most of February, an attitude of “out with the old, in with the new” prevails. Yet, when setting a goal, ...

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