Over the weekend I had a perfectly nourishing and wild Beltane celebration with a group of close friends. Lilacs, bees, butterflies, a rushing river, delicious foods, a gigantic cauldron full of fire, full moon rays, drumming, singing and ritual merry-making – my soul was as happy as it could be!
Beltane is a holiday devoted to our sensual relationship to life, Venus, and the Sun is also presently in Taurus (ruled by Venus). So the weekend got me pondering the following question:
What gets your Venus going – what is Her version of joy, beauty, love and abundance? How can I serve, delight, feed, nourish and honor Venus?
When you honor Venus she loves you back with abundance, flow, meaning, sufficiency, aliveness and wealth.
You can also look to your astrology chart for more information. Venus is the principle of relationship, money, beauty, eros, art and aesthetic value. What house and sign do you find Venus? This will tell you a lot about the area of your life and in what manner your Venus is vivified. (Download a free chart here: JanSpiller.com)
My Venus is in Pisces in the 12th house ruled by Pisces. My Venus gets turned on by the realm of imagination, metaphor, dreams, formlessness, poetry and the arts. So after a weekend of imaginal, dreamy reveries my Venus was juiced up! So I wasn’t surprised, though still delighted when I showed up at work on Monday and my client gave me a poem! I found myself saying to her “that a poem is about the best gift a person can give me!” And that’s true! My Venus was so happy!
The question of what stokes the fires of your desire and gets you back into loving flow is going to be a big theme in the coming month as Venus moves into retrograde from May 15th – June 27th.
When any planet is retrograde that part of our psyche goes on a vision quest. With Venus we are reviewing the habitual and conditioned way we come into relationship with life, love and abundance. What are your relationships to others showing you? What is your current relationship to money and flow? What is your level of juiciness letting you know about the patterns of belief/energy you are running in regards to abundance?
When Venus is retrograde it’s easy to blame the Other for a sense of scarcity in your life, to question your relationships, to feel disharmony or need to revisit unfinished communications (Venus retrograde in Gemini).
However, Saturn is trining Venus supporting us to take responsibility and take a good hard look (Saturn) at how YOU are approaching your relationships and how YOU are tending your own Venus.
On the same day one client gave me a poem, another client dove into some very deep work on her heart chakra. Underneath a mistrustful, protecting fighter, a strong tension in her chest, she discovered a sweet, precious and unharmed part of her original, innocent heart – the part that lives underneath the protections, survival strategies and conditioning of the wounded heart. She could see that her habitual need to protect her heart has taken her away from the discovery of her own essential nature. She longed to feel more connected to this pure aspect of her heart and asked her guides to help her remember the forgotten language of the heart.
These were some of the questions that opened up the dialogue with her heart:
What are you devoted to? What delights you? What is beautiful to you? What stirs your interest and excitement? Where does your curiosity lead you? What do you love? How do you love the world? How do you feel the world loving you back?
Lastly, today on my walk I listened to a Tara Brach podcast where she relayed a poignant story, where an experienced hospice nurse reported on the two things the dying most regularly express at the end of life:
1) They wished they had lived life from their true heart (not from rules/conditioning)
2) They wished they had put more energy into cultivating relationships
May this month be a time of revelation and healing as you ponder your own dance with life and love.
Blessings,
Laura
Image: “High Five Venus” Taken by Hipstomatic John S Lens, Ina’s 1969 Film
Image Note: Right after finishing this post dedicated to Venus, I went walking in my neighborhood and got a little message from the Goddess herself to let me know she appreciates all this attention! This little 2 of hearts mini-card was on the sidewalk! And it represents the archetype of The Lovers and Relationship!
Offerings:
1) Laura is gathering a group of creative, eager, and playful Crowriders to go on a mythic adventure to the top of Ring Mountain, in Marin County, on Saturday June 23rd for a half-day of ritual and magic. Email Laura for more info: journey@lauratabet.com
2) If you would like to explore where Venus is in your chart, or take a mythic adventure into your astrology chart, contact Laura for an astrology session!