Heart riff prompts You can take the mirror work practice to your journal and share what feels and sensations you experienced as you did it and/or you can riff with your heart on the following questions. (Again, follow these instructions for the heart riff prompts I share in the 2nd to 7th CHUs.)

And most importantly, it’s where we truly recognize that in death – both real and metaphorical – we truly remember how to live.

Tune in with the chakra/energy center. Locate it on your body – place a hand there if it helps – bring your attention to that area and breathe. Sit IN the energetics of each chakra/energy center for at least 20 minutes.

We need to reprogram, Venus style, which means ideally, every day, you’d be writing 12-page love sonnets in devotion to yourself, listing and loving on every single thing that makes you glorious, hot, delicious, and so bloody worthy. Actually, I really DO recommend you do this, at least once, and then turn it into art that you look at, recite, feel

For seven-ish months, at each cosmic hook-up as Venus descends toward the horizon, you too can map this journey, through your own body, using the seven chakras/energy centers in your body,

While the new and full moons connect us to the lunar feminine and anchor us into our emotions, our unconscious, and our conditioning, the monthly CHUs align us with not only the evolutionary energies of what astrologer Adam Gainsburg, author of The Light of Venus, calls the ‘Solar Feminine’

Then, as Venus moves toward the heart of the sun at the cazimi (TC) you MAY feel yourself turn toward your own heart as you too enter the heart of your sun. As above, so below.

Diane Wolkstein’s book Inanna.

when we call back our power and our magic from all the places throughout time and space where it’s been taken from us and/or we’ve given it away (knowingly or unknowingly) – and when it DOES return, which it WILL because we’re powerful women, witches, and humans – it NEEDS a strong and fecund container to return to.