Venus & The Spirit of Completion
Art By: Lorena Degue
VENUS AND THE SPIRIT OF COMPLETION
I’ve had a bee in my bonnet the last few days. A sense of restlessness. I’m preparing to go out of town. So in the 3-D, I’ve needed to be “busy”, yet my soul is longing for slowness.
It finally dawned on me that the energetic mismatch was because I am in the midst of an ending, and I haven’t taken time out to honor it as such. Today I am addressing that.
Venus is in her Alchemical 44 day Retrograde. In ancient times, 40 days was a sacred stretch of time that spoke to purification, and transformation. Reverence, and honoring. I’d like us to keep these themes in mind as you read on.
Every 19 months, at the midpoint of her Retrograde, Venus makes her interior conjunction with The Sun. This conjunctions marks the End of one cycle and the Beginning of another.
In the way I hold the cycle, this is the time in which a sacred ceremony takes place in the heavens. A ceremony which honors the closing of the Capricorn Venus cycle, and Opening of the New Leonine Cycle.
The way we observe a wedding could be a decent metaphor for this phase, if we hold the Bride’s singular experience at the centerpoint of our exploration.
By August 7th She has slipped from our view into some hidden place, to prepare for her Sacred Marriage with the Sun. Union with Source, where she will be coded with the mysteries of the next 19 month cycles in Leo.
But first, the Bride must prepare herself to take the sacrament.
In the days before this fated meeting, the Temple Priestess’s that attend Venus speak to Her of all the magic and mystery that was the Capricorn Cycle.
I imagine that it is here, in this “Bridal Shower” of sorts, that they create Capricornian medicines, and anointing oils. They celebrate all that has come to pass in this cycle, and gift these sacred offerings to the Bride to take on her journey.
Perhaps they dance around a fire, make sacrifices of what will no longer be part of her path.
As they do this in the heavens, so should we consider these things here on Earth.
The Capricorn Cycle is ruled by the static Feminine. She who gestates, births, AND shepard’s the world. She who sustains, and decays. In the Venus-Capricorn cycle we learned how to increase our capacity to “hold”. To meet and hold life as it arises. We learned to relate to the isness of life. We developed skills to move inside the bounds of reality. We set down illusion, and “dreaming” in favor of Truth. Subjectivity made way for objectivity. Immaturity made way for maturity, and we set down our childlike ways. (This is going to be an interesting passage, because true maturity has a connection to magic, imagination, and the inner child. So holding the paradox here will become part of the coding of the next cycle.)
Capricorn’s by nature are ambitious. In this cycle, with Venus as the Ruler, we met a new way in which to hold our “Drive”, and we revaluated what true “success” is. And we redefined our relationship to “more”.
We met the force of Cycles, and surrendered to them. Developed the ability to ground within groundlessness, and met threshold places with Deep Anchored Trust.
We contemplated our legacy. Mediated on the rule of seven generations, how our inheritance is being used to leave an inheritance for our children’s children.
For the purposes of this contemplation, the Capricorn cycle began In January 2022, still in the heart of Co.vid. It was heralded by the White House as “a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm”
Cast your mind back… This is the seed point of the past cycle.
This is our opportunity to reflect on how we met the evolutionary challenge of the Venus-Capricorn Cycle, and what medicine pathways opened up for us inside of our journey.
On August 9th Venus will enter the bridal chamber, and be impregnated with a new template. One that will carry us through the mysteries of the next 19 Months. Leo will become the overtone of Venus. Which will give us a double dose of potent solar energies.
In my time as an Astrologer I’ve become more and more clear that the most powerful place to transmit from is the energy we are inside of. So as we make our way through the next week, I will have more for you about what these codes are. In the meantime, please take some time to honor this past cycle.
Whether through contemplation, journaling, ritual, or actual medicine making, the next several days can be devoted to the spirit of “Completion” (another Capricornian theme).
What does being complete mean? How do we meet endings? Do we honor and sanctify them with true reverence? What would it look like if we did that here now?
For me, it's an opportunity to bring a bit of Winter, a bit of Fallowness right into the blazing pace of Summer.
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