Venus and Ketu
As Venus crossed the South Node in Leo, a karmic story of the heart has had to close. Affection, approval, and performance starts to wear off, and we are being asked to release the roles we once played to earn love and step quietly into something more honest.
Uttara Phalguni, the third part of Leo, is activated by this transit. It is the nakshatra that governs agreements that link souls; marriages, friendships, creative partnerships, and vows made across lifetimes. When Venus meets the South Node here, old contracts resurface to be rewritten. What once felt like loyalty may now feel like limitation, what once felt like devotion may now feel like exhaustion. These are the kind of karmic ties ready to dissolve.
The South Node can expose our judgments, the subtle ways we keep others at a distance, the quiet certainty that our pain is proof of our righteousness. Venus encourages a softening, understanding is born the moment we stop needing to be right, and forgiveness follows when the mind allows the heart to lead.
This is the higher octave of Leo, the movement from performance to presence, from needing to be adored to simply being available for love. You may notice where affection once felt conditional, or where creative energy was driven by the need to be seen. These patterns are now unraveling.
When Venus touches the South Node, relationships from the past, both living and remembered, reappear. Allow them to pass through you, there is nothing to fix. What is leaving your life has fulfilled its promise. What remains will feel quieter, maybe more lonely, but truer. This lesson is that true understanding never argues, it listens, and that forgiveness is not forgetting; it is remembering from a higher perspective.
This conjunction marks a turning of the heart’s karma, the soul no longer seeks approval but a deep resonance. The contracts now forming are those of mutual growth, creativity, and freedom. The heart now seeks to speak a simpler language, one that doesn’t need to perform its worth, because it has remembered it.