Since I am an astrologer AND organizing for the revolution (& so are many of you), here's a thread on Venus, organizing, & collective action!

With COVID-19 revealing major cracks in our structures of power, we need to come together & take action. But how? How can astrology help?

What is organizing? Anyone can be an organizer! You can organize your coworkers, neighbors, friends, family, your succulents FB group. If you have relationships OR potential to build relationships, then you can organize. We all have Venus in our natal charts; we all can do this.

Organizing = bringing people together to take collective action. Collective action is simply taking action w more than one person.

The next time you sign that petition, attend that protest, or want to check out that Zoom event, ask: who else can I invite? Who can they invite?

Collective action can be taken to address any issue. Not just for big issues, eg police brutality, capitalism. We tend to address "small" issues individually, or ignore them.

Problem at work? Go to HR by yourself, or ignore it.
Pothole? Call the city, or drive around it.

The next time you have an issue, ask: is this an issue others are experiencing? Could we take on this problem together?

Can a group of my coworkers come with me to the HR office to address this work problem? Can I ask my neighbors to call the city to fix the pothole?

Collective action is Venusian! Venus signifies connection, relationships. Bringing people together & taking action together involves Venus.

Easier to ask someone to take action if you have a relationship with them. 1on1 relationships are the building block of organizing.

Building relationships takes effort, intentionality, & genuine care. These aren’t tit-for-tat relationships. You have to sincerely believe in them & believe that bringing that person to this protest or that HR office is going to be good for them, not just a favor for you.

Looking at Venus in a natal chart will give you a sense of how you build relationships, organize people, & take collective action. Look at:
The sign and house Venus is in
The aspects that Venus makes
The houses Venus rules: the houses that Libra and Taurus are in

Ex. 1: me! I've been organizing for 12+ years. 4H Venus in Leo w Sun, Mercury, Mars. Trine Saturn, square AC. Many issues I organize around fit in 4H: immigration, affordable housing, Filipinx issues.

Venus rules 6H Libra & 1H Taurus. No wonder I work for a labor union (6H = work; astrologer J. Lehman says 6H = labor unions!).

With Venus-ruled 1st house (self, identity), I care so much about organizing people around their self-interests AND my own self-interests.

I strongly believe in organizing people around their self-interests. I focus on organizing people who are personally impacted by the issue at hand, e.g. minimum wage workers to campaign to raise the minimum wage, immigrants to organize for comprehensive immigration reform.

Ex. 2: Barack Obama. When he was 24, he worked as a community organizer for 3 years. Obama has 6H Cancer Venus, not closely aspecting any planets or angles. Venus rules 4H Taurus , 9H Libra. Worked on a college prep (9H), tenants’ rights org (4H). His org was church-based (9H).

This article on Obama’s three years as a community organizer & his autobiography Dreams of My Father (1/3 of that book is about his 3 years as an organizer), gives a detailed look into his organizing work. And his Venus in Cancer pops out! https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/us/politics/07community.html

Obama called community organizing “the best education I ever had,” which ties into his Venus-ruled 9H. It also helped him build relationships with the black community and grapple with his own identity issues and sense of belonging (4H).

With Cancer Venus, the people Obama organized felt like he genuinely cared about them & the campaign. And with Venus ruling 6H of routine work, effort in mundane tasks of organizing--assigning people speaking roles & talking points at meetings, arranging backup speakers, etc.

I include Obama's chart not bc he's organizing for the revolution (lol), but bc Dreams of my Father is a really detailed account of day-to-day life of an organizer. I recommend check it out.

Here's another thread on charts of organizers & activists: https://twitter.com/paostrology/status/1222766676426420224?s=20

If you wanna hear more, I actually talk a lot about organizing & collective action on this podcast episode I did recently with @SucksAstrology! https://twitter.com/paostrology/status/1299443849756958720?s=20