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All Times Central
Sunday Nov 23 Venus Inanna Underworld Introduction 1 to 3 pm Central
Sunday January 4, 11 to 3 pm--Epiphany and Return to the Beloved CEREMONY
Sunday February 22, 1-3 pm--Rising Into the Light Closing
Ceremonial Dreaming Circles:
Sundays Dec 7 & 21 from 1-2:30 pm
Jan 8 and Feb 1 from 1 to 2:30 pm
ENROLL at this LINK
Epiphany: a Three Month Journey of Divine Feminine Revelation and Sacred Union
At the end of March this year, 2025, Venus rose as Morning Star in the sign of Pisces for the first time in 155 years, beginning a new 1.6 year cycle. This cycle is unique in that it still carries an element of her previous Aries Cycle. This is because since 1922, Venus rose as Morning Star in Aries every 8 years. When Venus begins a new cycle, she is still in a transitional phase from the old sign to the new sign.
So our brand new Pisces Venus Cycle still has a "taste" of Aries And beyond that, as with Saturn and Neptune crossing back and forth from 29 Pisces to 0 Aries from 2025 to 2026, We could say Venus, like Saturn and Neptune, is helping us more fully integrate the Aries and Pisces Ages, freeing us to move into the Aquarian Age without the distortions of the previous Ages.
This journey is first and foremost an invitation to walk with the Goddess, Our Lady, as embodied by Venus Inanna. In the first 6 weeks with her guidance and that of her Dark Twin, Queen of the Realms of Death and Rebirth, we will release and clear heaviness we carry in our bodies and energy fields that hold us back from fully recieving the light of spirit, and embodying fully our own souls.
Turning Toward the Dark: The First Part of the Venus Inanna Underworld Initiation
There are two truths about Venus Inanna entering the Underworld or Great Below.
One is that as Venus disappears from our view on Earth, her light is gone from us and so we like she are invited into the Dark. As she goes to meet Ereshkegal, Queen of the Great Below, we go on pilgrimage to meet those elements of our world and ourselves that we have exiled, diminished, or locked away. We are stepping into the void, the Great Unknown, the realm of Soul.
The second is that when Inanna Venus enters the Great Below, we could say the light of Spirit is fully entering the body. Though from our view Venus is invisible, she is in fact bathed in the light of the Sun, Great Mystery. Likewise as a mirror we are each as a Sacred Human, invited into a nearly 3 month initiation where we allow ourselves to bathe in the light of the Sun, and prepare our bodies to carry more light, becoming more of the "Homo Luminous" so many spiritual sages have spoken of over many years.
The movement of Morning Star Venus with the Moon at the Seven Chakra Gates represents the clearing of density within each of our energy centers or "casting out of the seven demons" Christ was said to have done from Mary Magdalene, so that the light of Divine belonging to each of us can fully enter and animate our bodies--we can become incarnated, ensouled, and integrated--spirit ensouled in matter.
Inanna and the I Am Mysteries of Yeshua and the Magdalene
The seventh week features first the Venus Sun conjunction--on January 6, Epiphany within the Catholic Tradition--the day where Jesus was believed to have been honored by the Three Magi, or Persian Astrologer Kings, who followed a Comet, an Eclipse, and the Star of Bethlehem (Venus and Jupiter) according to some scholars on March 8, 05 AD.
Of course, before the Epiphany of Christ was the Epiphany of the Goddess, as we can see in a series of ecstatic artistic renderings from ancient Crete featuring devotees to the Goddess and an apparition to her at the center.
I have felt as well the deep connection between the Inanna Venus/Mars Mysteries and The Way of Jesus himself. It took my breath away two years ago when I was reading theologian Neil Douglas-Klotz' gorgeus translations of Jesus's words from the language he would actually have spoken--Aramaic.
He literally defined “Inanna” in Aramaic as meaning “The Way.” In other words, when Yeshua said “I am The Way,” he would literally have been saying Inanna… (is) the Way. Jesus was also referred to as the Morning Star and like Inanna, was a bright and holy being who descended from the light into the incarnational human experience--the Cross or the “Meathook” as it were.
My guides have been insistent that this course be referred to as "Epiphany" and integrate the medicine of Christ and the Magdalene (this is the next layer that also must be honored--with the Magdalene also deeply connected to the Venus Mysteries). Considering this is the first Pisces Venus Cycle in 155 years the resonance with Yeshua/Jesus, who represents the highest octave of the Piscean Age, is a natural connection to make.
Sacred Union is a potent element of this initiation as well, with Mars and Venus meeeting on January 7. I found it instructive that the new Mary apparitions coming through here in the U.S. (Our Lady of Light and Our Lady of Woodstock) came through couples rather than an individual man or woman.
This speaks to me of the new thread arising now--at this massive threshold between 2025 and 2026 Mars and Venus Meeting at the Heart of the Sun offers us an opportunity to heal the great wound between the Masculine and Feminine, and come home to the Unity and Complimentary Nature Between these two loves who have for far too long been separated.
Saturn and Neptune Crossing the 29 Pisces to 0 Aries Threshold Together
In the final six weeks we will come into our full strength and light and rise, preparing for the New World Reality emerging now, as Saturn and Neptune travel together, dissolving the old and making way for the 0 Aries conjunction on February 20, three days after Venus begins her journey as the Reborn Love Goddess and Evening Star, and just a few weeks before Mars is reborn as Morning Star.
This course is coming alive now, and will remain open to enrollment until Winter Solstice. THIS COURSE IS AN EMERGENT FIELD--I am not sure WHAT will show up and am fully available to be guided by Creator into the Outcome Serving the Greater Good. I am adding layers of guest speakers, guided meditations and practices in this final week as I sense and feel who will gather and what is called for.
You can enroll in the three month initiatory journey at THIS LINK
Some Background Below--How I have been preparing for this Venus Intensive and why I haven't guided Venus groups since spring of 2024.
Meeting the Mother of the World--My Initiation Through the Venus in Leo Cycle August 2023-March 2025
In the autumn of 2021 I felt the unmistakable call to step out of Venus Alchemy, an organization I'd cofounded in 2014 with my beloved mentor and co-conspirator Cayelin Castell. We'd guided hundreds of women and men through five Venus Cycles together in our 8 years together and I knew it was time for me to step out on my own, to individuate.
Yet it was not until the summer of 2023, when Venus had just begun a new Venus in Leo Cycle--the one I felt most clearly embodied Inanna's Essence--that I felt called to gather a group on my own to journey through her Morning Star Phase from August to April, 2024. As with every Venus Cycle, her astrological sign at Morning Star Rise (in this case Leo) guided the cycle as a whole. As the Leo Goddess, I knew we would be engaged in the deeper mysteries of the Sovereign Feminine with themes of Self Love, Feminine Power and Leadership.
During that Morning Star phase, it was my daily prayer to see the True Face of the Goddess, who Venus Inanna truly was. Early on I set the nightly intention to know her more deeply in my dreaming. I began to feel her, like sweet nectar, early in the morning, filling me with a sense of homecoming to the feminine core within myself, yet also all around me.
I was surprised when Venus revealed herself to me as Mother of the World; as Mary, Mother of God. I began to see Mother Mary's connection to Inanna, she who was also referred to in ancient Sumer as "Our Lady of Heaven."
A woman in my cohort who lived in St. Louis, Missouri introduced me to a couple who, in 2017, had begun receiving visions from Mary, "Our Lady of Light" and at her urging had built a beautiful sanctuary for her on the banks of the Meremac (Mary-Mac) River just two miles from where I was born.
At the same time I discovered a Black Madonna Sanctuary--one of just six in the U.S.-- just 20 minutes from the farm I'd grown up in, also south of St. Louis. From completely different sources, I was moved to read "The Way of the Rose" by Perdita Finn and Clark Strand, another couple who had received visions, from Our Lady of Woodstock, New York.
In Strand's book, "Walking Up to the Dark," he shares how Our Lady of Woodstock began appearing to him on sleepless nights as a Black Madonna, and her message that she is with humanity, walking us through the heartbreak of climate change, as she has always accompanied humanity through our darkest passages.
In another of so many synchronicities, and as I am prone to do, I went into a laughing crying fit when I came upon the passage in "The Way of the Rose" where Strand and Finn demonstrated a very tangible link between Inanna and Mary by way of the Miracle Metal, a popular pendant featuring Mother Mary with a symbol on the back that resembled the cuneiform symbol for Inanna.
Venus kept showing me who she is even beyond the Morning Star Phase of the Leo Cycle, through her Underworld Phase behind the Sun and into the summer of 2024, after she had been reborn as Evening Star, the culminating phase of the Leo Cycle.
The One and the Many: The Sovereignty Goddess and the Life of the Land
I traveled to Ireland as Venus began her Evening Star Journey, on an ancestral pilgrimage after learning at least 1/3 of my ancestry was Irish. I learned the magical term "Aisling"--a dream one receives of the Island Herself, as a feminine diety, when she is inviting you to visit. And though I did not have this dream myself, I did take a pilgrimage to encounter Ériu, the name for Ireland herself as a Goddess.
I also learned of the many other Sovereignty Goddesses, each of whom personified a particular region of the Island as a whole, like cells within a body.. They could be seen in the words of Irish herbalist and poet Seán Pádraig O'Donohue, as "the life of the land." I learned as well that for a true "High King" of ancient Ireland to take his throne, he would be required to "marry the land"--the Sovereignty Goddess whose life animated that district.
I began to understand at a much more visceral level that Venus the planet truly is a mirror or twin to Mother Earth and in her cycles she animates and brings alive within us, a deeper understanding of the unique tones and frequences of the Goddess herself. As Above so Below is very literally, kinesthetically alive. By tuning into Venus we in fact are empowered in a deeper connection to Mother Earth in her multitude of expressions.
In this time, I began to recognize two things about "Our Lady," as the Goddess Incarnate (her embodiment on the Earth and in the visions of the people).
First, she always appeared to the people in times of great trouble, to bring strength and hope--as did the Virgin of Guadalupe to strengthen the indigenous Mexican people to fight for their rights, and the Black Madonna near my midwestern home, who had been transplanted by a group of Jesuit priests from Poland. She was the famous "Our Lady of Czestochowa," who was a symbol for Polish Independence.
Second, she is One and Many all at once. Our Lady, Mother of the World, embracing all of Humanity, as she has always done. Yet at the same time she is many, appearing as a personification of the land herself--as she personified Ireland as a whole and also the various specific lands (Queen Maeve in Sligo, etc.), The Virgin of Guadalupe/Tonantzin embodying the lands near Mexico City as well as the Mexica as a whole, with numerous Virgins honored in regions all across the Americas.
The Venus in Leo Cycle continued with her journey as Evening Star from August 2024 to early 2025, and in that time I rested, of necessity, because the level of integration needed for all that had come through and required embodiment in me through the Morning Star Journey was so immense. I am only now receiving the full call to, in a sense, move forward where I left off and offer a full intensive of the Inanna Underworld Phase.