Venus into the Underworld

Not sure about you all, I truly have moved through a clearing of the root chakra, into a death phase and now I willingly graciously surrender into the new phase, just as Venus today slips into the underworld domain (July 8th).

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Vemus entered the Seventh Gate, Life Force (Root Chakra) and surrenders her life force (or what she thinks is her life force) JUNE 1ST

then, the Eighth Gate, Death by Intent (she is bare, stripped naked, of anything that no longer serves her JULY 1ST then, the Underworld (she dies, only to be reborn as it goes in the land of Scorpio) JULY 8TH

Venus has been visible as morning star since last November, just before going direct in 2018. For the last seven months she has risen Morning Star Warrior Goddess from the retrograde metamorphic underworld phase and moved through the chakra-gates, and is now descending to the between place, the what I call the nether-world, the place of transmutation. Death and rebirth.

Inanna remains there until September 19, 2019 During this time she is not visible as Venus in the sky. We cannot see her, only with the inner eye is she visible, and only if we have the courage to seek her out internally, psychically, energetically. What happens when the Goddess archetype is in the netherworld? Maybe a better question is what have we been working with as she's moved through the chakra gates? What have we been birthing or preparing to birth, and what have we had to release, let-go of, or even miscarry so we may move forward? Personally, I've released a mega shadow pattern, and will continue to do so throughout the summer months as we simmer in the cauldron of the Death Goddess. So many of us are afraid to visit with the shadow aspect, though when we don't we become cesspools of toxins, or a magnet for others toxins. It's the land of Scorpio/Pluto where we must face the hidden realms that we have either projected onto others or attached ourselves to via some person, place or thing, i.e., patterns in relationships, or with food, drugs, sex, money, social media drama and/or binge watching (you get the idea) that we have outgrown. With Mercury retrograde now we have an extremely helpful traveler-guide-psychopomp to escort us directly into the underworld with assured speed.

Inanna Meets her Sister in the Underworld In the Underworld, Inanna meets her sister, Ereshkigal, who kills her and hangs her body on a meat hook.   [Venus disappears from the morning sky and spends 60-90 days behind the Sun, meeting with the Sun, the Source of all life.] Inanna’s spirit remains in the Underworld as she dies to her old self and meets with the Source, preparing to be reborn. Meanwhile, Inanna’s servant, Ninshubar, knows that something has gone wrong, so he sends two emissaries to rescue Inanna from the Underworld. They begin by healing the pain and anger of the dark sister, Ereshkigal [integrating Venus' shadow self], and they revive Inanna by giving her the water and food of life.

So what does the Venus cycle, at this underworld phase want from us? The clues are in the sign Venus is in and the overall archetypal sign she is moving through. Venus entered the death gate in late Gemini (27 degrees) and enters the underworld in the sign of Cancer, the Moon Mother. This is a powerful one, because Cancer is part of the water triad (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) and the way we grow forward, and evolve, is the emotional body. So even with all the metaphysical energetic tools we have (thank you Spirit!) we have these human emotional needs and bodies and the Moon speaks directly to that.

The Moon is a powerful influence on our physical and planetary bodies. In other words our watery feelings, and bodies of waters, i.e., lake/oceans

Cancer also represents attachment, also a human need, albeit it can get imbalanced when and if we have unmet early childhood attachment needs coupled with unaddressed trauma. This complicates our intimate relations, especially if people aren't working with them consciously, and definitely when only one partner is and the other is not interested. These themes now invite us to delve deeper, release deeper, look deeper into our own psyches. What motivates our choices, actions, reactions, and how can we cultivate and work with the necessary transformative juice the underworld is offering us now? While Venus is hidden from the sky, and we have all these Cancer themes (North Node in Cancer, Sun in Cancer, Venus in Cancer) and intense Capricorn planets (South Node, Saturn, Pluto) knocking on our door. All of this is compounded with our collective True North calling--the Nodes of Saturn and Pluto are, guess what, in Cancer. Overall, the Cancer archetype correlates to the Moon, she Feminine and represents the women in your life, the women on the planet, the mothers and children of the world, how we nourish them and each other, how we care for each other. Cancer is sensitive, caring, nourishing (albeit she can be clinging, claws dug in...) and we are moving towards a partial full moon lunar eclipse on July 16th in Capricorn opposing the Cancer Sun, and Venus moving into to oppose Saturn (pulling things/patterns/people apart that needs to end). These are the themes up now. See what is calling you and care for you, nourish what is demanding your attention. Learn more about the Inanna Mysteries here