On Saturday, October 3, Venus will station to go retrograde. She will take a 40 day journey from her starting point at 8 Scorpio (intimacy) all the way back to 22 Libra (committed relationships). A 40 day period - like "fasting in the wilderness" - turns up in many sacred texts. This will be a profound, intense reexamination of relationship and intimacy values, particularly as it occurs in the company of an exact opposition of Mars in Leo (assertive/aggressive in a King or Qu