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.)

This will involve the following: Your heart being all-the-way open AND your boundaries strong. Your level of compassion (for ALL that’s unfolding) being high AND your roots planted deep. (Into Ma of the Dark Matter.) Being ALL-SEEING (able to witness the terror, the horror, the war, the destruction AND the magic and the miracles. AT. THE. SAME

Morning star Venus is the warrior, she’s courage, she’s Joan of Arc – she’s the source-ed force that can and will move us through the disillusionment and doubts of These Times and into a deep trust (and faith) in what it is that we’re cocreating here and now.

INVITATION: CONNECT TO YOUR INNER VISION

I’m a Self Source-ress who prioritizes my body, health, pleasure, and joy. A witch who can harness and hold my magic and power without depletion and/or burnout.

The fact that the Inanna myth is a beauty-full map of the Venus cycle means that you get to work with it and let it work you in ALL the ways as it brings you home, over and over again with each cycle to become MORE of yourself.

Frida Kahlo: ‘I paint my own reality.’

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’

I especially love the cyclical map of Venus because so many of us avoid the darkness, preferring to stay in the light, make a peace sign and shout ‘positive vibes only.’ That’s great, until an event or situation comes along that takes you out at the knees and you’re not prepared – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually – for how to navigate