Sublime

from the early Mesopotamian and Egyptian tales of Inanna, Ishtar, and Hathor to those of the later Greek and Norse Persephone and Freya. And that’s just in North Africa, Europe, and southwest Asia; in India, the goddess Durga has evolved over time into her own Venusian aspects: Lakshmi and Lalita Devi. In fact, all world cultures have an archetypal

In Sumerian, her name means ‘ornament of heaven’ and she composed and dedicated 42 devotional temple hymns and three poems to Inanna.

Venus holds the impulse of eros, or erotic desire. Erotic desire isn’t strictly sexual; it’s a quality of receptive magnetism that draws to us what and whom we love—people, pleasure, beauty, joy, and abundance.

Sappho.