Completing oneself through relationships...?

Venus and Mars function from the EA perspective as a planetary pair which speak to (quoting the EA Glossary) "How one completes oneself through relationships" -- I think that it would help tremendously to hear this defined in different words so I can get a better grasp on exactly what this statement means.

Would one or more of the mods be open to describing this planetary pair in context of "How one completes oneself through relationships" using their own words?

Many thanks!

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Ari Moshe Wolfe

Jan 15, 2023

Hi Sarah, will you please share where that quote comes from? I'm not sure how to respond to that quote, but I would like to share a quote from Pluto II book that JWG wrote, this is from the section on Venus in Virgo

All of us are forever “outpicturing” our own inner reality in this way without realizing this one thing, that those whom we attract into our lives are symbols of our inner reality. We project outwards that which is a reflection of our inner reality

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The nature of the times and societies that we are living in promote the idea of collective victimization. It is very easy to be a victim and much harder to own or accept responsibility for our own action. To understand that the overall realities we create emanate from within ourselves according to our own evolutionary and karmic requirements.

(2nd edition printing, 1998; page 128)

So I'm sharing that to highlight that in evolutionary terms, there's no such thing as something outside completing us. From the POV of Venus, in any placement, there's a tendency to project our inner needs outwards and to not recognize that those whom we attract are symbols of our inner reality.

Likewise, Mars, our conscious choices and responses to life experience, fundamentally points back to our soul program: Pluto, why we are here. What we are attracted to, what we choose and don't choose points back to our own relationship to our soul, how we are engaging this life relative to our evolutionary purpose.

From the Pluto II book, about the phasal relationship between Mars and Venus

From an evolutionary point of view, the phasal relationship between Mars and Venus will correlate to how the Soul is oriented to actualize the relationship dynamics for itself, and how its needs for necessary freedom in order to actualize its overall evolutionary and karmic intentions interrelate.

(2nd edition printing, 1998; page 259)

Sarah Pea

Jan 16, 2023

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Thanks for that, Ari. The quote I initially indicated comes from EA Glossary, Page 560, Table 11. I'll paste a screenshot for reference. I appreciate the quotes from JWG's Pluto II book as well, though I am already familiar with it and therein lies the conundrum - it is a description that is using language that I'm hoping can be deepened/expanded on / described in different words. What I am hoping for is to hear how those teaching this material would describe this dynamic in their own words. By hearing others who teach this material describe this from their personal understanding and their own language my hope is to expand my comprehension of the dynamic of Venus/Mars as it relates to completing oneself through relationships.

Rad

Jan 16, 2023

All humans form relationships with other humans whether they be friends, intimate partners, business partners, etc. It is through relationships of all kinds that all of us then experience dynamics about ourselves that we can only experience because of relationships. In this way all of us ‘complete ourselves’ in all the relationships that we form.

The natural zodiac reflects this of course. From Aries and the 1st House through Virgo and the 6th House we have the subjective development of the Soul within itself: it’s relationship to itself. From Libra and the 7th House through Pisces and the 12th House we have the Soul objectively developing itself through the relationships that it forms within the world in which it lives.

God Bless, Rad

Sarah Pea

Jan 16, 2023

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Thank you Rad, that is very helpful.