Herstory
of the Goddess
The Goddess
is known in every culture and religion throughout history-or more correctly-Herstory. Her story is her creation of the Universe
or more correctly the Yoniverse. The Universe is the verse or story of the Yoni.
Known
as Aphrodite, to the Ancient Greeks; her worship was incorporated into Christianity where they called her Mary; Isis,to the
Ancient Egyptians; Astarte or Asherah in the ancient Middle East; to the Babylonians-present day Iraq she was Inanna; Kali,
in India, where her worship has never ceased, Kwan Yin, in China or any of her thousands of names.
Venus
as the Big Billboard dancing sensuously in front of the Sun is saying to us I am the Goddess, I am love and Beauty, harmony
and balance, I am the Creatrix. And her eclipse know shows us the way- As above, so below. is the Ancient Hermetic maxim.
As we watch
Venus eclipsing the Sun, we reconnect consciously {or unconsciously} with the memories that live in our cellular consciousness,
memories of all our Ancestors who watched the Celestial Skies, the Planets and the Stars for aeons. We are not very far removed
from our ancestors in spite of whatever technology we have.
Venus's
eclipse connects us to our ancestral mythology, the world when Gods and Godddesses were immanent, alive. Mythology is alive.
Mythology is the Story of our Souls our History our Dreams. Modern life is a mythology. Venus, the Goddess is alive. She exists.
We exist because of Her.
All over
the world, the ancient myths and symbols, even the words we still use, live in our blood, literally in our veins.
The word
vein comes from the word for Venus.
Venus, love
literally pumps through our bodies
and our
hearts throughout our lifetime.
Symbolic Meaning of this Transit
At
its simplest most basic symbolic level the transit of Venus across the Sun represents for all humanity the principle of LOVE
eclipsing the Ego, the Sun, the masculine principle, self-centerdness, the will, the Patriarchial rule of power-over. Venus
also joins with the Suns path, this is a union of Love and Will. A balance of the Masculine and the Feminine.
Venus
rules women, the Feminine Principle which resides in all of us whether embodied as male or female. Her eclipse of the Sun
symbolizes the force of the Feminine in all aspects of our worldly life, gaining true equality and harmony from the Feminines
own terms, not the masculine as has been so for thousands of years, when the Patriarchy took over.
She is showing
us on Earth- the way, Harmony reigning over power-over politics; inter-relatedness over selfish identification; balance, co-operation,
peace and equality for all. Creativity, beauty, nature and nurture come to the fore over self-interest. Make love, not War
in other words.
Venus
whose worship is ancient,primordial. We are all born of women, of the Feminine. This is our human commonality our shared oneness.
We are here on this earthwalk to learn to love and care for ourselves and each other. To value love more than anything else.
To walk in Beauty as the Native Americans say.
Patroness
of the Arts, called Aphrodite to the Greeks, Ishtar to the Babylonians. She is the brightest object in the skies except for
the Sun and the closest planet to the Earth. When she rises with the Sun she is the Morning Star and at night she is Evening
Star in her masculine and feminine appearances. Native Americans call her Dawn Star Woman. She comes in this guise on June
8th 2004. Rising as the Morning Star,the eclipse marks the beginning of a time prophesied by the Mayans, as the
return of Love, of Christ-consciousness embodied as a Messenger like the Buddha.
Return of the Messiah
The true
Messiah who lives in our hearts individually and as One through our actions, through non-judgement, through total acceptance,
through loving kindness to ourselves and all living things. The Messiah is coming into all of our hearts and minds where we
will Be Living Love as Christ, the Buddha, the Goddess in all her thousands of names throughout our ancient world history.
We remember,
we cannot forget,
the blood
of the Ancients flows through our viens
its
in our DNA, in our cellular consciousness!
Invoke
the Goddess in yourself! Call her by name. Your intention is everything.
Ask and
it will be done. So mote it be.
Goddess Chant
Isis, Astarte,
Diana,
Hecate,
Demeter, Kali,
Inana,
Quan Yin, Lakshmi,
Tara, Mary,
Shekinah,
Maat, Eve,
Goddess
incarnate who birthed
each of
us
from the
Beginning of Time.
Remember
simply remember who you are and where you came from, and we are all our mothers. Your Mother is the Goddess, the Earth is
our Mother.
Effects of the Venus Eclipse-predictions
For
the next 8 years, Venus's eclipse will shift us. The Goddess will affect us. She will empower women, empower the values of
the true Feminine in both men and woman and our children. How we relate to all the children in the world, the 30,000 of them
that now, before the appearance of the Goddess we allow, we collude in their deaths each day from hunger, starvation and war
by not seeing through the eyes of Love. What is the real value of our lives? What are the values we want to teach our children?
The Goddess will influence our politics, is this a just world? Sacred law, not man made laws must be re-created. The Goddess
will change our world view. The Goddess will change our hearts and our minds. What is our relationship with the Earth, our
Mother? How do we support beauty and harmony first?
How
do we rebalance the values of money? Venus rules money and luxury. Are you really that insecure that you really need that
S.U.V.? How does that S.U.V. and its gas guzzling affect the environment?
Remember
everything we take for granted and as normal now must be overturned if it is not in harmonious relationship to everything
else.
Will
we take a stand to stop war? Are we in balance with our bodies? There can be no more power over politics, manipu-lations or
anything that does not come from Love anymore. We must create balance amongst all peoples. Venus will address the issue, the
main issue that No one is greater than or has any more power over another, over the Earth, or any parts of it, her resources
or her life forms. Venus's love is unconditional. Venus will ask us to rebalance our ecology, our relationships, our schools,
our philosophy, our cultures, our food, our music, our politics, the pharmaceutical industry, the Media, our businessess,
the arts, until June 2012 when she returns again in her 8 year natural cycle after journeying through the Underworld, transformed
and re-birthed as the Evening Star,also known as Stella Maris, Star of the Sea a.k.a. Mary, Mother of God, the Goddess, the
Great Mother.
This, I
believe is the biggest trigger, the biggest event that has happened in our lifetime. It is an extraordinary opportunity to
witness and be a part of. This event is a Return to Love as Marion Williamson calls it as Venus returns. And we are the ones
who must assimilate Her. Allow the Goddess to live, act, speak and love through each and every one of us.
How to Celebrate Her Return
To celebrate
Her return throughout the 6 hours of the Eclipse throughout the World. I ask you to join with me and with others to mark this
event as a new beginning of Love in the World. We will meditate we will sing and dance, we will make ourselves beauteous,
we will recite poetry, love poetry, Rumi, Rilke, Susan Griffin, Shakespeare, Leonard Cohen etc. As Venus rules Taurus and
the throat chakra, we must sing, we must make sound, sound is one of the greatest healing tools. Music being the food of Love
we must play on. Be joyous, fell that glorious feeling of being in love, of embodying Love, tingle from your toes to your
head and send that Love from within your heart to all around the World. As the ruler of Libra,balance your mind, the twin
hemispheres of your brain, the yin and yang.
Make art,
make beautiful things, spend the day in beautiful gardens surrounded by flowers, plant flowers,apple trees. Make love, Venus
is the Goddess in her sexual aspect, with mutual consent giving equally and honouring the Goddess. Help women who need it
without expectation of any return. Be kind to strangers. See everyone you meet today as your Beloved. Practice random acts
of kindness and senseless acts of Beauty all day, and from this day henceforth.
Venus as Karmic Justice
I
also believe that if we do not take to our hearts and our minds this symbolic and actual event, please remember that Venus
is also the Goddess Maat, the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of Justice a.k.a. karma a.k.a. The Golden Rule. Do unto others as you
would to yourself. First you must let go of your illusion of masochism. Love yourself unconditionally first. Maat or Libra
symbolizes Love as the Law.
Maat
or Venus rules the balance of actions=karma in the Universe. When you die, Maat takes your heart and weighs it in her scales
of Justice against the Ostrich feather she wears in her crown. Your heart which holds all the deeds that you did in your life
from a loving place from a place of no regrets must balance equally with that feather. We could see this as Judgement Day.
The Goddess has thousands of names and thousands of aspects. She can also be the Dark Goddess of Necessity.
Venus Visualizations
Women,
Go to Venus! See yourself in your imagination at our sister planet, all is beautiful on Venus in the mythical imaginal world.
Imagine your vision of the most beautiful place, Paradise. Everything is done from the heart, from a place of conscious love,
Venus fulfills our longing for the return to and our desire for Paradise. Feel your power as the Goddess of Love, as Mary,
as whichever Goddess calls to you. See yourself dancing in beautiful coloured flowing robes, being you, and the most beautiful
woman imaginable, in her power and her glory. She/you are sensual, perhaps bellydancing in front of the Sun. Her power/your
power is eclipsing the Sun, a Star. Feel your heart expanding and sending beams and waves of Love, Beauty, Harmony, Balance,
Peace, Songs, Art and poetry which exemplify Beauty. Feel the warmth in you heart and send it to the Earth. Venus means to
venerate. Venus is our veins, our lifes blood,pumping through our hearts. LOVE the Goddess, the Goddess is All, Love yourself,
know you are loved unconditionally. The Goddess {as Venus} falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which
takes on a life of its own. Love of self is the creative force of the univere. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy
is erotic, magnetic, the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, proton for electron. Love is the glue that holds
the Universe together. Writes Starhawk.And know that you must find the Goddess within yourself first. We all come from the
Goddess and to her we shall return.
Astrology of Venus-Ruler of Taurus And Libra
.
Astrologically
Venus rules two signs Taurus-the first Earth sign, a feminine receptive sign, ruling the throat,song and music-as the food
of Love and also the sign of Libra-an Air or mental sign considered masculine or active, ruling relationships, balance, justice
and the arts.
Venus's
eclipse of the Sun occurs while she appears to be moving backwards astrologically in what is known as a Retrograde phase.
Venus
will be in the sign of Gemini during this eclipse. Gemini is a masculine active Air Sign, ruling the mind and communication
most specifically. Gemini is the sign of the Twins, symbolizing the dual aspects of ourselves, containing both male active
and female receptive polarities. and the two hemispheres of our brains.
Gemini
in the Tarot is symbolized by the image of The Lovers, numbered 6 also a symbol of the balance of Heaven and Earth, symbolized
by the 6 pointed Star, the one on the Israeli flag, which is actually an ancient Tantric symbol of the marriage or union of
the opposites also called the Hexagram, the basis for the I Ching in China. Remember the Lunar Eclipse on Nov. 8th
2003 where the rare six pointed Star appeared as an alignment of planets in the sky and the world wide meditations that ensued?
2004 is also a number 6 year.
I
believe that this is the next installment in Cosmic Celestial Signs and Symbols and Omens indicating to all of us who are
aware awake and alert of the directions we need to go.
Cabbalistically
the Planet Venus rules the &th Sephiroth or Sphere of Influence on the Tree of Life called Victory, whose number is 7.
The Central Sphere of the Tree of Life,called Tipareth,or Beauty is symbolized by the Sun traditionally, number 6. So this
eclipse also reveals a particular pathway on the Tree of Life and it is important to take in its meaning. It is the 24th
Path,of Imaginative Intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes which are created
in like manner similar to its harmonius elegancies. This is the path called Nun in Hebrew. It is the path of Death, the 13th
Key in the Tarot, Pathway of Enlightenment. In brief it symbolizes making the transition from the Personality-ego identity
to the Higher Self or True Spiritual Beingness. Death is Re-Birth, Transformation. This is the Path we are embarking on. Loving
Life in Death and Death in Life. Die before you die. Die daily. To die is to live, to wake up to Life and to Love.
Venus in
Gemini symbolizes love, and the need to harmonize our minds with our hearts. In the Buddhist and Native
American traditions the heart is the thinking organ and the mind is the body,relating to physical survival only.
Venus
in Gemini carries a twin Goddess aspect because of the morning and evening appearances. For this Venus eclipse to occur in
the sign of the Twins Gemini, adds potency to its crossing. Gemini is an air sign, symbolizing the powers of the mind, the
two hemispheres of the brain as well. Twins represent duality in all of its manifestations, the duality of the material and
the spiritual planes of existence, masculine and feminine, tying and yang, day and night.
In
Mexico, the Mayans will be celebrating. Teotihuacan is the birthplace of the 5th Sun and home of the prophet Quetzalcoatyl
who was a living man. Venus/Quetzalcoatl is the symbol of matter and spirit combined, the symbol of Death and rebirth, which
Venus's transiting cycles represent. The Grail Legend is also connected to Venus' symbology. Your heart is the Holy Grail.
Venus
is the Great Goddess in her sexual aspect. The Venerii were Sacred Prostitutes cleansing men who had shed blood in war and
invoking the Goddess in her Temples through Tantric rites.
In
the Middle Ages Venus became the ruling Fairy Queen of the magic mountains called Venusbergs. The city of Venice is named
for Venus.
The magic
rhyme addressed to the planet Venus as Evening Star still echoes down through the centuries, known to all of us through popular
culture in Walt Disneys Pinocchio.
" Star Light,
star bright,
first star
I see tonight,
I wish I
may, I wish I might,
have
the wish I wish tonight."
Invoke
Venus through her Sacred Pentangle, the 5 pointed Star which all Wiccans are familiar with. Invoke her pentagram from top
down to the left leg of the star up to her right arm across to the left arm down diagonally to her right foot, and back up
to the top point of the Star.
In
Venus' own cycle her path looks like a 5 petalled flower.
Venus
Symbolic Attributes to work with
Incorporate
as many of Venuss attributes into your Ceremony as you can or choose. Build alters to worship Venus. Wear her colours, her
gems and metals, her flowers, her incense and perfumes. Eat apples.
Give
and receive massages. Make a Venus doll. Paint Goddess pictures.
Colours:
Indigo blue, and green, like the Earth and the Sky.
Her
stone would be lapis lazuli or turquoise amber or emerald.
Metal:
Copper is the metal sacred to Venus as a great conductor.
Number:
5, the apple when cut open reveals the Pentagram.
Tarot
Images: 3 The Empress, or Great Mother as Venus;
5
The Heirophant, Taurus;
8
Justice or Adjustment, Libra /11 Strength/Lust, Leo- Heart, the Sun.
Tones:
La, E
Cabalistic
Sphere: 7 Netzach-Splendor
Angel:
Haniel
Tree:
Apple, quince
Animals:
Dove
Plants:
Acacia flowers, almon oil, aloes, birch, daffodil, damask rose, elder, elderberry, feverfew,fig, geranium, mint, mugwort,
olive oil, pennyroyal, plantain, raspberry, rose, strawberry, tansy, thyme, verbena, vervain, violet, all-heal. Flowers based
on 5 petals.
Direction:
West, the Feminine, Intuition and Introspection, the Earth
Her
day is Friday, Vendredi in French for Venus, Freya or Friday from the Nordic God Myths.
The
Sun is the attribute of all solar Gods and the Archangel Michael. It represents the Center, the Heart, the Source, its colour
is gold.
The
Ancient Egyptians worshiped Lapis lazuli which contained both Venus attributes and the Gold of the Sun.
The
number 5 in the Tarot is the card of the Hierophant, symbolizing the connection of the human and the Divine. The Da Vinci
diagram of the human as a 5 pointed Star. The 5 senses that we receive as humans.
To honour
and Integrate Venus significance
the showing
of herself, the physical and symbolic manifestation of the Feminine eclipsing or blocking out the Sun the masculine, rational,
daylight consciousness
We
witness and mirror back.
