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Astrology and Friendship - What Do You Do When A Friend Pulls Away?
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What would you do if you noticed a friend had pulled away? Would you question them? Try to pull them back in? Or would you let them be, maintaining the friendship within the new frame they’d established?
Where is your Venus and how is it aspected?
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I’m having this very debate within myself right now…actually, almost sent it in as a question. I have a friend, we’ve been close for 30 years, that has suddenly cut me off. The conversation we had was not that different from others we’ve had over the years, but she decided this time she didn’t want anymore to do with me. I’ve apologized, though I don’t think I’m completely in the wrong and I’ve sent her a couple of emails, but I have now to decided to back completely off. She’s done this before, and it usually happens when she’s really angry with someone in her family. I’m just an easier target. So I’ve left the door open, but I won’t chase. Venus in Scorpio, conjunct Neptune, square Saturn and Mars. Any input would be welcome.
I accept it, and hope they will come to their senses at first, on their own. if not, the new relationship status is very welcome. venus in capricorn trine saturn, sextile mercury, square pluto
ps- i’m going through this right now, so i’m thinking of the actual situation, where I know the reason this friend backed away and I know it’s not reasonable. But if i didn’t know the reason i’d be restless to find out before i decide what the future should be. I might chase the person if I respected the reason they changed frames.
I’ve Libra Venus conjunct Libra Uranus (11th) conjunct Libra Sun (11th), both trine Gemini Saturn (7th) and Aquarius Mars (3rd). I hate to see people come & go (Capricorn Moon in 2nd) but it seems they just do so I just adjust
well, i would do what i would want them to do for me if the situation was reversed
if i pull away from a solid friendship and they don’t ask why or come find me then i know i don’t mean much to them and they don’t really care. a true friend would care enough to seek you out and keep your bond, don’t you think? so i would do this a few times and if they didn’t respond or pulled away more…then i guess i would pull away some myself till they seek to right things again. it’s too bad this happens sometimes. friendships are meant to endure 
venus in 11th in aries conjunct sun/mars, square cappy moon, opposed saturn/jupiter, trine uranus.
My Venus is in Gemini and in my 7th house. I personally just go with the flow I guess. I have had a lot of friends come and go and because I need constant change and excitement sometimes things just have to end. Although I always hope it’s smooth for both. I have Pluto trining from my 11th house in Libra. And my 1st house Neptune (in Sag) Opposing Venus.
hm, like Ana I have venus in aries square a cap moon but mine is 9th to 5th. I have a different m.o. I do nothing. I often think a lot about how much they mean to me but still do nothing cos I figure that is what I want when *I* pull away.
I had to pull away from a long time relationship here recently. It was the day Pluto went Direct & it was time. This relationship had become very draining on me over the past several years. This severing of ties was looooong overdue. If it’s the other way around, I usually do very little or nothing. If someone doesn’t want to be around me then it’s their choice. Venus in Sagittarius in the 1st trine Saturn in the 9th
Like Heather, I have Venus in Scorpio (in the 4th) conjunct Neptune (in the 4th) squaring Mars in Leo (in the 2nd).I would try to work things out but then would also back off and let them make some moves but always leave the door open. I would also internalise that perhaps I did something wrong I was unsure about and would grieve the loss of the friendship.
Venus Libra in 12th… if a friend pulls away, I put out an invite somewhere casually…if they pass after 2-3 invites than I let them go.
if i didn’t think i did or said something to provoke distance, and i simply thought of them as a friend, i probably wouldn’t care. i’m very distant, normally, so i don’t expect a lot of contact or social time.
on the other hand, it they were previously professing their undying appreciation for my presence, and then were not caring and floating off the next moment… i’d definitely be concerned/worried and anxious, and would probably be pretty annoyed with them. i might still talk to them (to a point - would assume not to trust them anymore), but if they just keep fading or altogether disappear then i’m better off. i’ve chased people a few times and it’s not worth it. i’d rather just let people be.
venus in taurus… in 8th… opposite moon/jupiter… quincunx mars/ascendant & uranus… sextile midheaven… wide trine neptune.
Heather: I wasted 4 years trying to understand why a friend dumped me although my Venus is in Aries, I called her repeatedly begging her to talk to me. She didn’t, until.
I last spoke to her the day my aunt died. I asked her if we could talk later as I was grieving, and she disappeared. I haven’t spoke to her since. I spent a lot of time feeling shame someone would dump me, anger that she dumped me so obviously at a time I was incapacitated by grief…
And then I realized something, which is this:
It doesn’t fucking matter. Somethings just don’t get figured out in this lifetime. I’m glad it only took 4 years to figure out that I was never going to figure it out.
Venus/Aries in the 3rd opposed Pluto/Libra 9th
This happens to me a lot…my social situation seems to change within a minute. I’ve had lots of friends come and go, but I always back off and never question them. I’m not clingy, and while I’d like friends just as much as anyone else, I’m not a social butterfly and value my private time.
Whenever I’m at parties, I have to find someplace quiet to hang out for a few minutes, because anything too social takes a lot out of me.
Venus in Virgo, 6th house, conjunct Uranus and Pluto.
Venus in Aquarius, conjunct the ascendant. I have very longstanding friendships, but I think that is partly because I give them a lot of leeway. They are as important to me as my family relationships, but I don’t pressure them to exist.
Occasionally a person I thought was gone forever pops up out of the blue. One of my best friends turned up after ten years of non contact on the street in NYC, where I do not live, what are the chances? One in … 8 million, I guess. Another moved to a city where I used to live while I was away in grad school. Then when I moved back, we resumed our friendship after 20 years apart.
There have been a few abruptly ended friendships, with the ending coming from the other side, and those are mysterious with the people just deciding one day that they don’t understand me and never will. when that happens I used to wonder and hope for them to resume. As I’ve become older, I just let them go. A lot of it is being willing to live with that mystery.
When I see friends again after many years, it feels as if I just saw them. The friendships resume immediately.
I let them go, once I realize they’ve pulled away and aren’t interested in being around me any more…but I’m so oblivious to subtle gestures that it usually takes me a while to notice!
Venus in Libra conjunct Mercury and Uranus in Libra and Pluto in Virgo, all 8th house.
Thanks Denise and kashmiri, that helps. I have grieved over this, but you are right kashmiri, it doesn’t really matter why. And I am not wasting anymore time trying to figure it out.
i’d drop a line, an email, or whatever, to let them know i’m thinking of them, see if they want to cht or whatever, and let it be. sometimes people get wrapped up in whatever and need to disengage for awhile. and i’m not going to go chasing them down.
people drop me for all kinds of reasons and it only makes it worse to go pestering them about it. and sometimes it’s really nothing t do with me.
venus/aries/8th
(aspecting, variously, pluto, saturn, neptune)
Ah, my Venus (rx) in Cancer in the 7th is always hurt and will withdraw for a while. But I will eventually peek over the bannister again (due to planets in other more tenacious signs in my chart) to see if some new frame of understanding may be found. Sometimes they can, sometimes not.
For friendships that can’t be saved, some I mind losing and some I don’t, and I actually haven’t worked out why or what the right balance is yet - when to give up and when not to. I try to work out my issues through the experience of such a loss (Sun-Saturn in Gemini in the 6th, everything has to be ‘worked out’) - for example, what is it about (my idea of) this person that I feel I need to cling to, and what stakes do I have in not being able to let that idea go?
venus pisces 11th. oppositions and squares from moon, pluto, saturn, mars.
I’ve had friends pull away and in the instances that it’s happened I usually have occasion to run into them somewhere down the line. The reasons usually are that they’re pulling into themselves for personal problems, family issues, too much work, etc. They’re usually warm and wanting contact but not able to keep the same level of contact that they might have had previously.
I have never, in my memory, truly been dumped by a friend. Usually the endings to my friendships have been gradual and caused by life changes.
I have only once walked away from a friendship. In that instance I was direct in telling her why. Her husband was verbally abusive to me and I refused to be around it. As she wasn’t capable of socializing with me without him around (I had tried in previous months) I hit the wall with trying and told her directly while wishing her the love and happiness in her future. I still, even today, love her and care about her. I just couldn’t handle the treatment I got when I was around her.
I guess I’ve felt hurt by friends pulling away until I get ahold of them and the story is something like .. my new job.. and the baby… and then my grandma got ill. I haven’t been talking to anyone. That’s the typical situation. Lots of friends have moved away and we both struggle to stay in touch at the level we might have had when we dropped in on eachother.
I’d check in with myself, invariably find out it was mutual because it always is and move on. Venus/Pluto (and Sun) in Leo
i make new friends constantly and often find myself outgrowing old ones.
venus in libra. It depends on who it is. I may let it be, or I may contact them to ask what is up.. then let it be.
Venus afflicted in Taurus/7th. I just let them go. Some people drift away, some will come back if/when they want to.
Seems like a number of us have Venus in Aries square Saturn in Capricorn - add me to list!
I’ve had this happen several times. When younger, I’d try everything; nothing worked. Now it’s not an issue. Perhaps due to my Uranus in the 11th (?), many very good friends have suddenly & unexpectedly had to move abroad or to the other end of the U.S.A.- but that’s different!
My Venus is tugged in very diffent directions:
Venus in Aries (7th house)- Trine Uranus in Leo (11th), sextile Mars in Gemini (9th), & trine Jupiter in Sag 3rd).
It’s also square Saturn & Moon conjunct in Cappy (4th).
(All very close aspects except the Jupiter trine.)
I hope it all works out for you, Heather!
Sort of going through this now, and I’m just letting it be. I don’t know what caused the problem (although I have an inkling), and I’ve apologized for as much of it as I think I’m responsible. But that’s it, all the other shit needs to be a two-way street! Now I’ve just got to let my friend decide.
I’ve got Venus/Mars/Pluto conjunct in Libra and it hits almost everything in my chart. Argh! The main influence here seems to be the trine with my Aquarius moon — I’m not one that needs a lot of social interaction in the first place, so don’t get too bent out of shape if someone pulls away.
i am having girl friend problems because i toldon her because she was talking and the teacher asks who was talking and i pointed at her and the teacher said kiana why are you talking and now she wot even talk to me anymore i am going to call her so i can work things out with her i dont know if we are friends or not but i will still love here