Venus Retrograde is a 40 days and 40 nights journey into the heart of our fundamental needs, values and relational patterns.
For the last four Venus ret cycles, beginning in 2018, I have offered up a course called Deconstructing the Myth of Soulmate.
For this upcoming Venus retrograde, however, I need to switch gears to honor the reality of the times we are existing in now.
Fierce Hearts | Open Hearts is being offered as a devotional practice that will strengthen your relationship with Venus and the Venusian —
for those who want to deepen their commitment to fierce open-heartedness through weekly ritual and regular meditative practice.
March 1 - April 17
A Venus Retrograde Devotional Container
Fierce Hearts | Open Hearts
is meant as a devotional container that help you initiate or strengthen your relationship with Venus Herself – as deity – and with the Venusian.
This journey is coalescing at a time when the reality of our collective situation is chaotic and bleak. It is dedicated to the knowledge that our future is unwritten, and that the work of grounding into our own stories, our loves, and our relationships (with self, other, planet and gods) is a necessary part of refusing the stories being written by those who would seek to dominate and destroy.
Fierce Hearts | Open Hearts is inspired by a vision of the world that centers love as a multidimensional and integral way of being. It will take you on a journey of strengthening your fierce open-heartedness. It is dedicated to a future when we can look back on this moment and see it as a turning point that brought us into a world of thriving beauty and sacred reverence for life rather than an ending and failure.
Although this experience is based in astrological and astronomical phenomena and the Venus Retrograde taking place March 1-April 12, it is not an astrology course and is therefore suited for any level of astro fluency. The arc of the course and the focuses of each week’s prompts, divinations and rituals will be inspired by the astrology, but you can let me do the work of interpreting.
The first four weeks will include devotional practices meant to explore the potentials and possibilities of Venus in Aries, while the last three weeks will center the potentials and possibilities of Venus in Pisces – while recognizing the challenges of both energetics, and the multidimensionality of Venus as living goddess.
This Journey is Meant For:
Folks who want to begin or deepen their relationship with Venus and/or the Venusian on their own terms with recognition that anchoring love, empathy and fierce compassion on this earth is a fundamental need at this time.
At its baseline, Fierce Hearts | Open Hearts is offered up as a way for you to have guided, grounding spiritual practice during a time of immense uncertainty.
What’s Included?
An initial email to help you orient to the experience, including suggestions for altar creation, offerings and an initial ritual.
Tips for making offerings
A recorded 90 minute lecture about the astrology of Venus retrograde (recorded February 22) with a list of key astrological dates during the cycle
Two recorded guided energy healings; one for energetic soothing, one for repositioning and/or clearing the energy of specific relationships in your field (sent out during the middle of the course)
Live gatherings are not part of this experience. If you would like the opportunity to come together with others you can join my Discord server for text based communication or join my Patreon for access to incentives including live gatherings, all of which include time for QA and group practice. The current Patreon gathering schedule is (all times Pacific):
3/6: Patreon orientation/meet and greet at 4pm
3/10: Eclipse season energetic prep call and QA at 4pm4/9: Spirituality QA (text based, on Discord) at 11am
4/12: Full Moon Ritual/Community Hangout Time at 4pm
The heart of the course is weekly emails sent out each Thursday evening February 28 - April 17. These emails will include:
A link to a 10-15 minute guided meditation meant to be worked with as part of a daily or mostly-daily practice
2-3 Reflection prompts
A 2-3 card group tarot reading for extra support (written + card images)
A ritual to perform during “date night” with Venus on Friday (Venus’ day) to strengthen your connection and communication with Her (the Friday timing is a suggestion)
Any extra notes, ponderings or writings that come through
Weekly themes will include: Gratitude, Wonder, Expression, Fire, Suffering + Grief, Water, Love
Weekly
Themes
Each week will center a Venusian theme and reflection while allowing room for you to follow what feels most meaningful to you. Guided meditations and suggested practices will build upon each other for the purpose of strengthening your foundations and the container.
Please note: The meditations during weeks five and six will greatly benefit from your commitment to practice earlier in the course. You will have the opportunity (and therefore choice) to tune into and transmute your own suffering and the suffering of the collective. We will be incorporating Buddhist Tonglen meditation into this part of the course. Tonglen meditation aims to build compassion and empathy by working with the heart as a vessel for feeling, acknowledging and transmuting pain and suffering.
You will need
Email access
A journal
A tarot or oracle deck
An altar (an existing altar or one you build for this occasion; you will be making offerings)
Openness and curiosity
Because this experience is about devotion and deepening relationships, commitment and follow through will be a vital part of your participation. This course has been dreamed up with progress in mind, and each week builds on the last. However, the ways you engage are ultimately up to you.
FAQs
How much is this course?
Pricing is tiered as follows:
$95 for those who have access to more resources
$70 for regular registration ($10/week)
$50 for Patrons (please subscribe before registering for the course)
$40 for Black, Indigenous and Trans folks
Where can I register?
Here
Is this an astrology course?
It is not. You will receive a recorded lecture about the astrology of Venus ret along with a list of dates as a bonus, but those are just extras and won’t be addressed in the weekly emails.
Do I have to approach this course in devotion to Venus as a deity?
You do not. The emails and suggested activities will be written as if you are focusing on your relationship with Venus as a deity. If that’s not your cup of tea, you are welcome to approach it is a deepening of your relationship with the Venusian (and exploration of what that means). But I do encourage openness to connecting with Venus on her own terms as a deity because she is one. And she’s quite lovely.
What if I have questions during the course?
I will be available via email for questions with easier answers. You are welcome to post questions, ponderings, processings, images, etc. in the Discord server to get answers from me or other participants. You are also welcome to book an “ongoing consult” session at any time between March 1-April 17 — even if you haven’t had an initial consult with me. Alternatively, you can join my Patreon to get access to any of several community events that include live QA time.
Do you offer refunds?
All sales are final.
What is your main reason for offering Fierce Hearts | Open Hearts?
Thanks for asking! Times are turbulent, and my consistent guidance has been to help folks connect with Venus and the Venusian as a vital medicine for navigating these times. I have been connected to Venus for a very long time, and working with her explictly for at least a decade. This offering is part of my work with Her.
How much time will I need to devote?
At minimum: 15-30 minutes on Fridays for your ritual
I recommend 10-15 minutes per day in addition to that for meditation or some kind of regular grounding and centering process.
If you choose to use the recorded meditations that I will provide, they will be between 10-20 minutes long.
