Venus Stations Direct: A Love Affair with the Mystery
This retrograde season has been gruelling for so many of us. And one of its biggest revelations for me has been inviting me to deepen my intimacy with the Mystery.
Let me acknowledge that I have been moving through a time of profound uncertainty in two areas of my life ruled by Venus: love and money. I am very certain that I am not the only one navigating this, both from my personal and professional conversations, and because I understand how cosmic cycles work.
Venus has been in the underworld for 40 days that have felt like an eternity. During this time, she has invited us on an alchemical journey to transform something within ourselves. She takes us on a psychedelic spiral path through the same degrees of the chart every 8 years, looping our external reality through deeply familiar and often uncomfortable themes, inviting us to shift our perception and internal landscape surrounding those themes.
Every single astrological transit is here for your soul evolution.
Venus transits bring us in touch with the realms of intimacy, love, money, and value. When she turns around and revisits old territory, as she does in her retrograde cycle, she asks us to confront the subconscious stories and karmic residue of our misaligned dynamics in these realms.
Her repeating cycles through Scorpio and Libra have specifically invoked a reclamation of where we have abandoned our power, handed it away. Whether we did so consciously or unconsciously, Venus wants us to retrieve what we left behind.
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The golden nugget that I am holding as Venus emerges into the light is this: when I forget to surrender to the Great Mystery, I am more likely to unconsciously surrender my power to extractive dynamics.
Being an independent and successful woman, an eldest daughter, an entrepreneur, and a modern day witch and feminist who is committed to sovereignty and integrity, asks me to hold a LOT of responsibility. As a single woman who lives alone, there is no one to fall back on or share the weight of adult burdens. I am incredibly grateful for how this life has taken me DEEPLY into my own power.
And… because I am usually the one holding it all, there is an aspect of me who longs to fully surrender the reins and give over control. I have a feeling that most powerful women can relate.
The problem is when this desire manifests itself through the unconscious pattern of feeling an erotic charge around giving that power away to another person. This is one of several elements of unconscious patterning running for women who repeatedly engage in intimate relationships that are toxic, extractive, and disempowering.
The eroticism of feeling powerless and totally surrendered was never meant to be handed over to a man. This longing is guiding you back home into deep intimacy with the Great Mystery. It is through rebuilding your divine relationship to the Mystery that you experience true surrender to the infinite magic and wisdom of the Goddess.
Here we encounter the true beauty and majesty of Venus.
So how does this relate to the uncertainty I (and maybe you) are facing in regards to love and money?
Maybe the Goddess is asking you to stop rushing the process and forcing her hand. Maybe she is preparing solutions for you that are far beyond what your mind is able to see right now. Maybe if you are already showing up for your part, your work is to soften into surrender and allow her to do hers.
Being in right relationship to the Goddess is not a passive and complete handing over of all that is uncertain in our lives. She asks that we arrive at her temple correctly. We must acknowledge our responsibility in co-creation with her, but not overstep beyond what is ours to hold.
She asks that we are self honouring in our word and our actions before bestowing her blessings upon us. When we break trust with self, we damage our ability to receive her gifts.
She requires our attention and attunement. If we are not able to slow down enough to hear our inner guidance and receive her instruction, we are looping in frantic and compulsive control seeking.
And she asks us for faith, a blind belief without proof. To surrender our knowing in favour of outcomes beyond our wildest dreams. To not limit her magic with fear based mindsets and a refusal to accept the possibility of miracles.
With love,
Hannah
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