The Venus Rose Point in Capricorn 2026
- Jema Killala-Barnard
- Jan 6
- 4 min read
The Venus Rose Point marks a moment of rebirth in the Venus cycle, when Venus meets the Sun and begins a new spiral of desire, truth, and wholeness. In Capricorn, this initiation asks for embodied sovereignty and courageous honesty.
6th January 2026 · 16° Capricorn
Desire, sovereignty, and the reclamation of wholeness
On the 6th of January, Venus meets the Sun at 16° Capricorn. A moment in Venus Cycle that I call the Venus Rose Point. This is not just a conjunction. It is a rebirth.
Hidden in the heart of the Sun, deep in her descent, Venus is momentarily invisible, stripped of reflection, purified by fire. But she is not alone in the underworld. Mars is there too, standing beside her as she meets the Sun, close enough to shape the story with her.
This meeting does not speak of romance in the way we are usually taught to recognise it. It speaks of wholeness. Of desire as truth. Of love reclaiming the parts of itself that were once cut away.
Venus in the Underworld
Every Venus cycle carries a descent.
Before she can rise again as Evening Star, Venus must pass through the underworld, through invisibility, through unknowing, through the place where identities are loosened and reformed. On this journey of descent we follow Venus as Inanna, a much older version of the planet that we now call Venus, a much older goddess who was not only love and beauty, but also war, power, sexuality, and sovereignty.
Inanna was never divided. She did not choose between softness and strength. She did not apologise for desire.
Her descent was not a punishment, it was an initiation.
Each gate she passed through stripped her of something she thought she needed in order to rule. Until she stood naked before her shadow, her sister, goddess of the great below and was transformed.
This Venus Rose Point carries that story.
A journey of shedding stories and shadow integration as an initiation into wholeness.
Aphrodite, Ares, and the Love That Would Not Behave
In later myths, Venus becomes Aphrodite, but changed.
She is married to Hephaestus, a love chosen for her rather than by her. Safety over desire. Order over truth. A familiar story.
But her heart doesn't long for Hephaestus.
It is Ares (Mars) that calls across the sky to her.
God of war, courage, blood, and will. Ares, calls to an older part of her, one that is not passive. And he too has been severed from his full identity, God of harvest, of cycles, of tending to the land. He once had a deeper connection to the values that he fights for.
Theirs is a story where beauty dared to be vulnerable, and war dared to be gentle.
Ares removes his armour.
Aphrodite watches him lay down every defence and she sees him not as the god of war, but as the man who had never been touched softly. She loved him for that unguardedness.
And Ares, saw Aphrodite’s wounds, the price of being adored but never truly known. The ache of being worshipped but unprotected. The thorn hidden in the rose.
And he loved her not for her beauty, but for her resilience.
Their love was not an affair. It was an initiation.
A meeting of:
vulnerability + courage
eros + action
softness + fire
beauty + truth
Even when they are exposed, mocked, humiliated, their bond does not dissolve.
Because this is not an affair. It is a remembering.
Ares is not an intruder into Aphrodite’s world. He is a part of her that was taken away.
Her anger. Her Sovereignty. Her initiation. Her capacity to act on desire rather than wait to be chosen.
It is no accident that theirs is the love story retold again and again. No accident that it is their dance we trace across the sky as Venus and Mars circle one another, meet, separate, and return.
The Rose Point: Desire as Truth
The Venus Rose Point marks a turning of the spiral. A place where the long pattern of Venus and the Sun opens another petal.
With Mars present, this rebirth is not gentle in the way we often expect Venus to be. It is clear.
Desire is no longer something to be managed, justified, or postponed. It becomes a compass.
Not desire as impulse. Not desire as indulgence.
But desire as truth-telling.
The quiet knowing of what is no longer sustainable. The flicker of aliveness that reveals where we have been living too small. The ache that refuses to go silent.
Mars is not demanding grand gestures, he is supporting small acts of courage.
The conversation you finally have.
The boundary you stop negotiating.
The creative spark you honour even when time is scarce.
The version of yourself you stop betraying in order to keep the peace.
Venus, Mars, and Motherhood
For women (and especially for mothers) desire is often the first thing sacrificed.
We are taught that love should be selfless, endless, and quietly erasing. That to want more space, more pleasure, creativity, rest, recognition, is a threat to harmony.
This Venus, Mars meeting tells a different story.
It says:
Desire is not selfish.
Anger is not a failure.
Wanting does not make you unsafe.
Wholeness makes you more capable of love, not less.
To honour desire, even in small ways, is an act of resistance.
To let Mars stand beside Venus, rather than policing her, is how sovereignty returns.
This is how the goddess of love remembers she was once also the goddess of war.
Walking This Cycle
You are already living this work. Bringing gentle attention to these themes will help you walk this path with intention, maybe take some time to journal around these questions, or take a moment to consider what comes up for you.
Where has desire been asking for your attention?
Where have you softened yourself to be acceptable?
Where has your truth been waiting for your courage?
This Rose Point does not ask you to become harder. It asks you to become whole.
Venus does not rise from the underworld alone. She rises with Mars, and with the memory of who she was before she was divided.
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