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Find
a penny, pick it up.
The rest of the day, you'll have good luck!
 My
mother taught me this rhyme. I say it every time I see (and
pick up) a penny from the pavement. But I did not think about
pennies as a symbol of Venus until I received the following
from astrologer Tracy Korb (www.sunsoulastrology.com):
I
was Google-ing "Venus" and came across an article
about elements associated with Venus. One of them was copper,
which as you know is used to make coins, including pennies.
I have always stopped to pick up pennies when I spot them
on the ground. It's like a little game. When I lived in
NYC and my sister and I were roommates for a time, unbeknownst
to me, she used to scatter pennies on the steps leading
up to our apartment because she knew it made me happy to
find a penny and pick it up. It was pretty funny when she
finally told me what she was up to! Now I see that this
has been one of the unconscious, symbolic ways that I "search
for my Venus!"
Venus is known as the "lesser benefic" among astrologers.
She brings good fortune, but not the huge sums of money astrologers
might predict from the "greater benefic" Jupiter.
And yet, as I discovered in my Venus research, the "lesser"
benefits that Venus brings may be even more valuable than
dollars. Venus brings the gift of sensation-our pleasuring
in life itself. She is our capacity to smile at a woman wearing
a red dress, to delight in the sound of wind through the trees,
to thrill at the smell of cookies baking. Simple pleasures
that cost us nothing-that's what Venus brings. And yet, without
her inexpensive gifts, our life would be such poverty.
The
next time I pocket a penny, I'm going to honor my goddess.
If
you find a penny, grab it.
Venus wants you to have it!
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