The limitations are part of Vesta’s agenda to teach absolute focus. If you think about the hearth fire she represents, that fire needs to be contained in order to burn effectively. Natal Vesta is also where you experience limits. Vesta sex always has a purpose that goes beyond pleasure. Depending on what messages you absorbed about sex when you were growing up, intimacy with the Venus person can be a beautiful exchange of nurturing that is used to strengthen your domestic bond. However, it all hinges on how you deal with Vesta. There’s always a risk that Libra will do this anyway, but when the energy of religious dedication is added, everything is bumped up a notch. Vesta in Libra will place an emphasis on give-and-take, but you may end up sacrificing your desires (including your sexual desires) to make the Venus person happy. You’ll also feel an unusual amount of devotion to the Venus person that will be expressed according to the sign your Vesta is in. Unless there are some other, seriously disruptive synastry contacts between you, you’ll be drawn to live with them. If you meet someone whose Venus conjuncts your 4th House Vesta, what the Venus person takes pleasure in (and how they express love) will fit into your sacred space. You’re not going to move in with just anyone, and if you decide to let someone share your space, they had better honor your house rules. They are standing at the threshold of your temple, asking to be let in.įor example, if you have natal Vesta in your 4th House of home and family, these things will be sacred to you. If someone’s planet or angle (cusp of their 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th House) aspects your Vesta, they are touching a sacred part of you. As you can imagine, when your Vesta is contacted by a person’s planet(s) or angles, the connection is complex and profound. Vesta holds the potential for sacred sex: intimacy that is physical and spiritual, and that goes beyond personal satisfaction. She is associated with the sublimation of sexual energy into other activity, but she also represents sexual devotion and purity.
Natal Vesta symbolizes the area of your life where you can devote yourself with fervor. Before patriarchal culture took hold, the vestal virgins served the Mother Goddess and were “…sacred harlots who sexually gave of themselves to strangers – men who came to the temple to honor the goddess and partake of the sacred union.” If they broke their vows, they were buried alive. If the flame went out, they were whipped. In patriarchal Rome, the sacred flame in her temple was tended by young women who took vows of chastity. The book “Asteroid Goddesses”, by Demetra George and Douglas Bloch, describes Vesta’s fascinating mythology. Vesta can be as intense as Pluto (sometimes described as a blend of Virgo and Scorpio). But don’t let the word “virginal” throw you off. It often gets lost in a rush to find juicier inter-aspects.
This asteroid is named after the virginal goddess of the hearth fire.
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