Currently….Venus is becoming the Evening Star!….
I’m sure you’ve felt it: The speeding up of life, and the deep transformation we are all intuiting in the depths of our Collective mind. An Old story seems to be unraveling like a rolling ball of yarn. Whether you are currently directing your awareness at 2012, the Economic crash, the new nightmare of Elections, Elenin, or ______ for the catalyst of this “Great Shift,” it is Venus for me, who is bringing us deeper and deeper into our heart, our Love, and our entire internal Universe that is constantly changing. In this process, we relinquish our fear, and we have the opportunity to really save ourselves. Collectively, I think we are contemplating pupation, desiring to become cosmological butterflies, with the ability to fly above the detritus we have created on this sacred Earth. In this blog, I want to talk about an often overlooked cycle in Astrology: the Cycle of Venus.
Right now, Venus is invisible in both the Morning and Evening sky. This is because she is “traveling” with the Sun (she is between the Earth and the Sun, so we cannot see her). Soon, she will be reborn into the Evening sky, as the wizened Evening star, and will be visible just after Sunset.
I feel this “Shift” we are currently going through, relates directly to a rebalancing of power. The patriarchal era is coming to a rapid close, and on the heels of this dying epoch, we can fully sense the return of the Goddess. Her return ignites our remembrance of the sacredness of the Earth and all life held by it, including ourselves. The return of the Sacred Feminine need not imply a new hierarchy with the masculine at the bottom. We live in a time of integration, where we can activate the sacred marriage between Feminine and Masculine, between Heaven and Earth. Slowly, all of us, whether we like it our not, will become more and more intimate with the ground beneath our feet. We will remember the healing potential of plants, the voices of animals, and the rhythm of the cosmos we float within. Mother Earth, Mother Earth….she brings good luck!
When dealing with the cycles of Venus, we look for the pattern behind the re-emergence of the Sacred Feminine and its impact on the Earth and Humanity. For many ancient cultures including the Egyptians, Babylonians, Sumerians, Persians and Australian aboriginal people, Venus represented the Sacred Feminine. Venus undergoes a new initiation cycle every 584 days, about 1 ½ years. The sign in which she begins her cycle can be understood as the “overtone” or version of the Goddess currently activated in the Collective Imagination. These cycles are felt at both the individual and collective levels.
In the current cycle of Venus, we are waiting for the re-emergence of the Scorpio Goddess. On November 4 of last year, morning star Venus rose in the east in the sign of Scorpio. From that time until June 11, 2012, it has been she who is remaking our world. So who is this dark and mysterious version of the Feminine, and what is she attempting to do to us? She has been feared by the Judeo Christian paradigm for centuries, and if often labeled as “Witch” or “Sorceress.” Yet when we scratch the surface of history across cultures we find her venerated as Kali Durga, Pele, Hecate, and the Dark Goddess. Fear naturally comes with change, and this is the essence of the Archetype of Scorpio: Deep and cathartic change, phasing into the cycles of Rebirth and complete renewal!
The Scorpio Goddess holds the most profound of the feminine mysteries. She is the female Shaman, representing all that is organic, wild, outside of the realm of logic and rationality, and outside of the control of the most powerful modern technologies or institutions. It is she who initiates death and destruction of the status quo. She is the master of these deep and mysterious Underworld cycles. Again, she serves the Earth and wholeness by orchestrating the essential pattern of death and rebirth. I find it fascinating that this current Venus cycle is happening in parallel with the Grand Cross (see previous articles and podcasts on this), the “2012″ phenomenon–the ”End of the Mayan Calender”, Elenin, and all the other myriad conspiracies of what is happening to the planet at this time in history!
From her morning star appearance in November through July, Venus was in the descent process of her cycle, preparing for her Underworld initiation. This has been a shamanic death for all of us, where everything that serves us no longer, is stripped away and destroyed, so that we can move forward, without fear, awaiting the next blessings to arrive into our lives. Within this cycle, I have never witnessed more traumatic breakups and breakdowns than with any other planetary cycle. We have seen her in the intensity of all the natural disasters, the revolutions and protests around the world, and of course the fall of the dollar (after all, Venus does rule over Taurus, which relates to Money and Resources.) I am also fully after that lots of this relates strongly to other Transits, like Pluto in Capricorn squaring Uranus in Aries, but when you really lock your awareness into this cycle, meditate on the dates, picking up old journals, and reminiscing. You will discover an uncanny revealing of what this Scorpio Venus cycle has been doing to your Heart, and for what reasons. I highly recommend diving into your not-so-distant memories for some juice!
On July 11, Venus completed her descent and disappeared from view in the morning sky. From that event through September 22, Venus is within 10 degrees from the Sun and so, she is invisible to the human eye. From the perspective of the ancient astrologers, this is when Venus–or the Sacred Feminine–is moving through the underworld, experiencing this Shamanic death, so that she can be born again to the Evening sky. Her beauty and magnificence shall return soon enough!
Within this trans-mutational phase of Venus, we are asked to surrender and to stop our struggling. It is at this stage that we must allow ourselves to be shaped like clay of the Earth. Our wits cannot save us, and we cannot even apply force through Will to change the process from happening. We must cultivate trust that this passage through the dark night is perfect, and allow our old skins to fall from us like leaves on an Autumn’s tree.
In the days following September 22, the Fall Equinox, Venus will rise from the Underworld, with her neo-appearance, appearing in the evening sky as Crone, where she will remain until May of 2012. She will be dim at first but will gain brightness as she appears each night. The moments that circle around the Fall Equinox are potent times for intention and ceremony, and a time to welcome the renewed Scorpio Goddess into our world. It is during this time when we can finally see the Light within the Darkness of Kali’s eyes. She’s not as scary as we thought. And if you think back to last Fall of 2010, and remember the challenges you were faced with, you will also begin to notice an umbilical connection existing between then and now. If you have truly been doing “the Work,” you will be experiencing not only closure with the issues faced back then, but also a renewed sense of self and confidence!!!
Venus relates to the essence of our sexuality and the fire which animates all of our desires in our lives. When we lose touch with her, we lose contact with our Muse. And so, for this Equinox, may we welcome the tantric Shamaness back into our life, and allow her to show us the mysteries of life within our sexual cauldron. Her presence can be felt as a bubbling up of ecstatic joy, aliveness, and boundless creative energy—an activation of our wild souls. She energizes every cell of our being, tuning us to the song of Creation.
From this Fall into next Summer, Venus will continue to gain strength as she approaches completion of her Scorpio cycle. On May 30, 2012, Venus will enter the Underworld for a second time, completing a full metamorphosis and emerging in the morning sky on June 12 in the sign of Gemini, soaring high into the Morning sky, like birds of a feather. This is the essence of the Venus cycle, and how she comes and goes from our skies, blessing us with both beauty and grace, creating a perfect 5 pointed star in the sky!
…a new day is coming, one dripping with love and bliss. Don’t miss a sunset once it comes. She will be waiting, just above the Western horizon, with eyes of fire, and a heart like a pyre. Don’t be scared. You shall be born again!
****If you would like to understand these Venus cycles in more depth in your own life/chart, don’t be shy, and contact me at KOSMOGNOSIS@GMAIL.COM, and we can set up a session to help you better understand the implications of this cycle in your own Heart!******
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