Welcome to this meditation on Venus.
Wealth,
Prosperity,
And the art of receiving.
Settle into a comfortable position,
And let your hands rest open in your lap,
Palms facing upwards,
Ready to receive.
And let's begin by taking three slow,
Easy breaths in your own time.
Breathe in through the nose,
And then gently out,
And let each exhale be a little longer than the one before.
And as you breathe,
Begin to soften the muscles around your jaw,
And the ones around your eyes,
And around your shoulders.
Let yourself be safe and supported within your body.
Breathe gently,
And allow your body to settle into space here.
We're going to spend a little time in the energy of Venus.
Venus,
The planet of beauty,
Of sensory pleasure,
Of value and worth.
Venus asks a deceptively simple question.
What do you allow yourself to receive?
Not what you work for,
Or what you earn,
And not what you feel you deserve after enough effort.
Just what you simply let in.
Prosperity,
In the Venusian sense,
Is not a reward.
It is a relationship.
It is the quality of being in genuine,
Open contact with the good things that life is offering you,
Right now,
In this moment.
Bring your attention into the palms of your hands.
Those open palms.
Notice what it feels like to hold them open.
Is there any impulse to close them,
To grip or guard,
Or turn them back over?
Just notice that without judgment.
Now imagine that warmth is beginning to gather in the center of your palms.
A gentle golden warmth,
The color of honey in sunlight.
Venus gold.
It isn't asking anything of you.
It is simply here.
Can you let it land?
As you breathe in,
Let that warmth travel slowly up through your wrists,
Into your forearms,
Your upper arms,
Spreading across your chest.
Imagine it pooling gently around your heart.
A soft golden warmth that says,
There is enough.
There is enough for you.
You do not have to earn this warmth.
You do not have to justify it,
Or explain yourself to it,
Or make yourself small enough that it feels acceptable to receive it.
It is here because you are here.
Because you exist.
Because life wants to be generous with you.
Let this soft golden warmth expand throughout your belly,
Through hips and pelvis,
Thighs,
Calves and feet.
Let it fill up your whole aura.
Feel the gold and the light.
Entering every cell of your body.
And as you sit in this warmth,
Let yourself think of one small thing that is genuinely lovely about your life right now.
It doesn't have to be big.
It could be a cup of tea that it was exactly right.
The way the light moves across a wall.
The way the dog nudges your leg.
A kindness somebody offered you without being asked.
Just let it rise.
In that golden warmth,
You are right now held in the presence of your loved ones.
Held and provided for.
The ground beneath you is evidence of that.
The air in your lungs is evidence of that.
All good things will come to you.
You are able to receive.
Venus does not ask you to hustle towards abundance.
She asks you to practice being the kind of person who can receive it.
Open hands.
Open heart.
Eyes that notice what is already here.
And as we bring this meditation gently to a close,
Let your hands remain open a little longer.
Let the warmth linger.
Carry something of it with you as you move into the rest of your day.
Thank you so much for sharing your space with me today.
Have a wonderful day.
