Welcome,
Dear friends.
This is Sarah and I am so happy to be back with you again.
As we move through the challenging astrology of 2020,
I wanted to create some guides to the retrograde season and the eclipse season that we are entering into.
And in this first session I'd like to talk about Venus retrograde.
Venus is the planet of love,
Of values,
Of beauty and harmony.
And when it goes retrograde for almost 40 days,
We have a real deep opportunity to turn inward and better understand ourselves,
Our values,
Our self-worth,
Our self-love,
Our self-acceptance,
Our self-esteem.
And in this time where we are all at home,
And we are in this forced period of spiritual retreat because make no mistake,
That is what we are on.
We can dive deeply with Venus as she takes her journey from being an evening star to a morning star.
And when she is reborn on June 3rd,
2020,
We can be reborn too.
Retrograde ends this year on 25th of June and the shadow period will continue for a few weeks afterward.
Where Venus is retrograde we find ourselves reflecting,
Revisiting,
Reviewing our relationships,
Our past relationships,
Our wounds,
Our hurts,
Our traumas,
Our pain.
And we re-experience those and they can feel as real this time round as they did the first time.
So it's important for us to honour this sacred time,
To care for ourselves,
To give ourselves space and to allow ourselves to feel the overwhelming feelings that might be coming up at the moment.
But it's also important to treat this as a time to begin a practice and begin a practice of self-love,
Of self-acceptance,
Of truly appreciating ourselves for who and what we wholly are.
And even those parts of ourselves that we don't wish to face and that we don't like very much because they are a unique,
Important,
Magical part of you.
And this Venus retrograde gives us the opportunity to do that.
And if we can end this Venus retrograde in a place of power,
A place of deep understanding and acceptance for ourselves,
Then we emerge with that morning star from a powerful foundation from which to build new relationships.
Romantic relationships,
Friendships,
Partnerships,
Business relationships.
If we can stand in our true authenticity,
Comfortable and content with who we are,
That is where our power lies.
So what does self-love look like?
It's messy.
It's painful.
It's powerful.
So begin with just one practice today.
And whether that is looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning and repeating affirmations,
I love you.
You are loved.
You are worthy.
You are enough.
Whether it's beginning a journaling practice,
Whether it's committing to a movement practice of yoga or dance or running or whatever you love to do,
Just begin.
Bring some structure and routine to your day.
Treat yourself with the compassion,
Care and kindness that you would treat friends and family with.
Stop your negative self-talk.
Talk to yourself the way that you would talk to a loved family member or best friend.
Give yourself the pep talk that you need.
Give yourself the love that you need.
Revisit the past hurts.
Let the old wounds and pain and trauma and fear and anxiety come up.
Don't be afraid to feel them.
Let them overwhelm you if you need to.
Give them a name.
Understand how they feel in the body.
And know that these past hurts,
Traumas,
Fears,
Wounds,
Deep,
Deep wounds,
Don't come up to hurt us.
They come up so that we may experience them because we didn't fully experience them at the time.
And they come up now so that we may experience them,
We may feel them and we may move forward.
Feeling lighter,
Brighter and standing fully in our power.
Use this time to understand your values.
Take stock of the lessons you've learned during our forced spiritual retreat.
Many people are re-evaluating their whole lives right now.
Their jobs,
Their family situations,
Their relationships and they're identifying what wasn't working for them but that we weren't able to see before because we had the distractions of everyday life.
Take all these lessons that you've learned.
Use them to help understand what is truly,
Deeply most important to you.
Think of these values as your route map,
Your road map,
Your guidelines for living life,
Your spiritual guidelines,
Your soul guidelines.
Write them down,
Affirm them,
Put I am in front of them.
And don't compromise on them.
Understand that they are important to you and that what's important to you is worth saying and worth listening to and worth respecting and worth knowing.
Get clear on all of this during this Venus retrograde.
Get clear on where you're not loving yourself.
Get clear on where you are unkind to yourself.
Get clear on what is not important to you anymore.
Do the work.
Dredge it up.
Feel it.
Journal it.
Dance it.
Speak it.
Write it.
Move it.
Let it move in and through you.
And know that by the end of June,
As Venus is reborn and she completes a cycle that began in 2012,
So we are reborn in our relationships too and we can begin again.
Who will you be by the end of this Venus retrograde?
Who will step out as their true,
Authentic,
Powerful self?
Safe and secure in the knowledge of who they are,
What they're worth and what's important to them.
Thank you for listening.
See you very soon.
