What are the odds that the next couple to live in our old home would share the same degree of Venus, with both weddings in small towns twenty miles apart (populations 1200, 750), in the same Driftless Area county, and sixteen years between…
May wedding (elopement) 2004:
Venus 24° 11′ Rx Gemini
August wedding (pandemic) 2020:
Venus 24° 45′ Gemini
Image top: “1911 Map showing extent of the Driftless Area as well as the Driftless region in Minnesota and Iowa.” (Wikimedia)
Image above: “A simplified plot of the position of Venus with respect to the Earth (i.e. geocentric perspective). For this graphic, Venus and the Earth are assumed to be in coplanar concentric perfect circular orbits around the sun, and Venus' and Earth's orbital periods are assumed to be in an exact 8:13 ratio (so that the size of Venus' orbit with respect to the Earth's is set as the cube root of 8²/13² by Kepler's third law, or about 0.7234876 AU). The resulting 5-fold symmetric curve is sometimes called a ‘pentagram’ (though it has little resemblance to a conventional 5-pointed star). The innermost loops near the center are where Apparent retrograde motion is observed.” (Wikimedia)