Venus: A Path of Rebirth and Transformation

The Planet Venus is a mirror of the feminine soul in all her sensual, sacred, and cyclical wisdom.

As the brightest planet visible from Earth—often gracing the sky just before sunrise or lingering after sunset—Venus enchants our gaze and stirs our hearts.

She is the celestial embodiment of beauty, elegance, harmony, desire, and love. She governs our relationships, our receptivity, our gratitude. She whispers through art, dance, music, and all forms of embodied pleasure.

But Venus is not only about the light—she also invites us into depth, transformation, and rebirth.

Venus: The Sacred Feminine in the Sky

In astrology and myth, Venus represents the divine feminine in her fullest expression. Some say the Egyptian Goddess Hathor is from Venus. She is the Goddess of beauty, art, music, fertility and childbirth. She has cow ears representing the sweet mother’s milk. Some also say Hathor brought the honeybees from the planet Venus. The literal land of “milk and honey.”

Venus holds the codes of sensuality, emotional intelligence, receptivity, and inner radiance. She reminds us to feel… to slow down… to allow ourselves to be moved by beauty. And yet, her magic runs deeper still.

Venus is the second closest planet to the Sun, and her orbit is unique. When mapped from the Earth’s perspective over the course of eight years, Venus traces the pattern of a five-petaled rose in the sky—a living mandala of divine feminine geometry. This sacred rose, sometimes called the “Venus Rose” or “Pentagram of Venus,” is no coincidence—it is a cosmic signature of feminine rebirth, created through precision, patience, and rhythm.

The Venus Rose Cycle: A Living Mandala

Each petal of this celestial rose represents a full Venus cycle, which takes approximately 19 months to complete. Over the span of eight years, she completes five such cycles, creating a full rose pattern in the heavens. This cosmic bloom unfolds not in a straight line, but in spirals, weaving a path of initiation and return.

A new 8-year Venus cycle began in June 2020, and we are currently walking the spiral of this sacred pattern. The full rose will complete in June 2028, a powerful time of culmination and integration. Each Venus cycle includes phases of visibility and invisibility—times when she is radiant in the sky, and times when she disappears from our view.

These visible and hidden phases are more than astronomical facts—they are metaphors for the feminine path of transformation.

Venus and the Descent: Inanna’s Journey

When Venus disappears from the sky—usually during her retrograde period—it is said that she journeys to the underworld, much like the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna, who descended into the depths to die and be reborn. Inanna, the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war, and wisdom, mirrors Venus in her complexity. She is not only soft and sensual—she is fierce, wild, and transformative.

In this descent, Venus leaves behind the adornments of ego, the identities that once defined her. She enters the void—the sacred dark womb—where alchemical transformation takes place. She returns weeks later, reborn as the morning star… a new octave of herself.

This underworld phase is reflected in our own lives as Priestesses, mystics, and seekers. There are seasons when we must descend, shed, grieve, let go. These are not moments to avoid—they are initiations. We are stripped down not to be punished, but to be purified. We emerge wiser, more radiant, and more fully ourselves.

This continual cycle of death, birth, and rebirth in the sky is a metaphor for the path we walk as the Priestess.

Living the Venus Cycle: Embodying the Priestess

To walk the Venus path is to walk a spiral path—to honor both radiance and shadow, rising and falling, seeing and unseeing. Her celestial journey reminds us to slow down, to reflect, to connect with our sensual body, and to listen for the deeper rhythm beneath our to-do lists.

We may ask ourselves:

What phase of the Venus cycle am I currently embodying?
Am I in the visible phase—radiant, expressed, magnetic?
Or am I in descent—being called inward, to surrender and transform?

There is no wrong phase. Each one is a sacred petal in the unfolding rose of your life.

Venus in You

To align with the energy of Venus is to reclaim your right to love, to receive, to feel, to honor beauty as holy, not frivolous.

It is to dance barefoot under moonlight, to dress your altar with roses, to say “yes” to what delights your soul.

The energy of Venus doesn’t rush. She invites.

She does not demand. She magnetizes.

She does not conquer. She blooms.

And so, may you too follow the rose path of Venus—through cycles of visibility and retreat, embodiment and mystery, shedding and blossoming. May you remember that every descent is followed by a new dawn. That the rose of your being is always blooming, one petal at a time.