Venus Vulture Medicine
Art: Michele Kortbawi Wilk
In medical Astrology, Saturn rules the Skeletal Structure. Our bones. If we have issues with our bones, or teeth, astrologers often look to see if we are having a significant Saturn Transit.
As the ruler of Capricorn, where Venus has seeded her new cycle, I’ve been thinking a lot about the skeleton.
The thing that’s left when a Vulture finishes his work. When he has picked away every last useful thing. And digested it.
Our bones are the only thing that is left when we bury our dead.
Pieces of our skeleton remain in the ashes of the funeral pyre.
Those bones then become fossils, something we study. Our Natural History. A living almanac. The thing that says “I was here.”
It’s kind of a pop-culture thing in our corner of the internet, to talk about the New Earth, and a transition from 3-D to 5-D. This idea that we are creating some kind of sparkly new paradise.
While I don’t argue that 5-D exists, and that a new earth wouldn’t be just lovely.
I get the feeling that isn’t the thing. I’m 100% certain it isn’t my thing. Not now.
I don’t think we are done with this story yet. Venus seems to point to there still being more to process, digest, alchemize, and transmute here.
As a culture, we are so quick to want to move on to the next thing. Avoid lingering in the discomfort, or in places lined with grunge and muck.
But I think there is so much gold here in the boggy peat. The peat that becomes coal. The coal that becomes a diamond.
The Feminine is slow. You can’t rush Her. You can’t dominate or extract from her. She’ll pull you down despite your best efforts to side step her Holy Curriculum.
She wants us to linger here. Like Vultures. Take our time with this part.
I’ve been forced to embody this lesson in my Covid recovery. I’ve wanted the exhaustion to end already. I wanted to dominate my illness. My body. But nature doesn’t work this way. She unfolds in her own time, and she has her own perfect intelligence.
I once heard that “the secret to inner peace and happiness is to love the life you’ve got. Ferociously.”
While I’m not sure that’s the only thing. It is helpful when we are anxious to move on ahead of Her. To be the planet’s petty tyrants, pushing evolution faster then it wants to go. To jump ahead in the timeline.
I think there’s something about that here. While we move slowly with her. At the pace of reality. Can you love where you are in the story now?
