Emotional abuse is a different matter from physical abuse. Emotional abuse can teach you an extraordinary gift, if you have the depth of commitment to your own heart. Emotional abuse can teach you forgiveness. In fact, emotional abuse can teach you that there is no such thing as emotional abuse except through your own choice.

Despite the above, you need to know that the Venus Sequence has no moral agenda. Sometimes a relationship reaches a natural closure. You can always tell that the closure is a part of your Dharma, because the relationship ends with graciousness on both sides. The only exception to this is a physically abusive relationship. Such a situation requires

Every relationship has its own karmic cycle, and in order to reap the greatest reward from the relationship, we need to honour it fully.

Our deepest commitment must always be to our own truth - this means that we need to be utterly honest with ourselves, and take responsibility for our own Shadow patterns.

Ironically, it is when relationships become the most challenging that you have the greatest opportunity to transform the Shadow pattern that is preventing this quality from emerging in your life.

when you really understand the core message of your Venus Sequence, you may reframe the whole purpose of the relationships in your life.

Every relationship in your life brings you the opportunity to find a deeper relationship to your own true purpose. This

Aloneness can also be a strong theme for you if you are a 6th line, and this can make relationships quite challenging. You may sometimes feel as though you are somehow locked out of the world that everyone else inhabits.

You alone can bring yourself back. You alone must learn to include yourself once again in the world.