Welcome to Gemini season! The sign of the Twins, the Lovers, duality, communication, and multiple perspectives, brings a surge of mental activity. As we move through to the end of the month, Mercury, which has been in retrograde in its home sign of Gemini and then Taurus, completes its retrograde cycle bringing forth much desired mental clarity & focus.
Our goddess and queen of the show, Venus, moves into its home sign of Taurus on the 28th, heightening our sensory experience of ourselves and the world. Yes, we've been deep in the Taurus field of physical awareness throughout the year.
There is a shift in cosmic energy that makes this felt Taurus energy different, however. As we continue to move out of the thick of the eclipse forest, the Goddess permeates her natural powers throughout our auric field creating a deep sense of inner peace, harmony, and pleasure in stillness. Embody the stillness amidst the chaos of the mind.
On May 30th, we receive the New Moon in Gemini. Your ideas get to sharpen in the coming weeks, bringing forth new creation to your projects and endeavors. Stay open to new ideas and new perspectives.
It is a time to experience the possibility of grounded stability in the body amidst the inherent duality of our reality that creates mental chaos.
ASTROLOGICAL ACTIVATION EMBODIMENT RITUALS
Suggested crystals to work with:
The following rituals can be done solo or in partnership. The astrological key here is to ground the mental body through the senses and intellectual stimulation. Create a sacred space in your playroom by lighting some candles, burning incense, placing an altar, & playing sexy music.
The invitation here is to create an intention and container to have a stimulating conversation with someone on a topic you are passionate about and share your own unique perspective. Charge up your Blue Aventurine Wands or Jade Yoni Egg by holding them in your hands while you engage in this conversation. The energy transfers through into the crystal, charging it up with the stimulation. Be open to seeing things from multiple viewpoints and invite your partner to do the same. See where the conversation flows with the intention to then connect on a physical, sensual level, using the wand during your sexy playtime.
You can do this practice by yourself by voice recording your own thoughts on a topic. Charge up your yoni egg in your hand as you do so. Open yourself to channel information and challenge yourself to oppose your own opinions through a different possible perspective. Then listen back to your own voice and allow the vulnerability of hearing yourself processing out loud stimulate you physically as well. Insert your yoni egg and notice the effects in your body, auric field, and downloads that come through.
Breathe in through your nose and exhale audibly through your mouth. The key here is to MAKE A SOUND! Release judgement and be as loud or as quiet as your body feels called. Moan, groan, sigh, whatever it is, vocalize your exhales. Notice the throat-pelvic floor connection strengthening with every new breath.
o Caress your partner's body parts or your own with your hands. Allow your hands to guide the touch and explore the body.
o Use the tips of your fingers only to explore areas of the neck, face, back, shoulder, and arms.
o Give yourself or your partner soft caress along the arms using your fingers and fingertips.
o Explore moving in synchronicity with your partner through contact improv movement allowing your hands and arms to explore each other. You can also do the same alone.
o Allow the breath to guide physical movement.
o Use your fingers to explore your yoni internally for extended periods of time. If partnered, create a play session where the intention will only be to focus on using your partner's hands and fingers to explore your yoni and nothing else. Have an integration conversation afterwards sharing your experiences.
Stay deeply connected to your body. Listen to what it desires to touch, to smell, to taste, to feel. Indulge in the multitude of sensory experiences and allow your senses to guide you deep into ecstatic orgasmic states <3
Hello Beautiful,
We are in an eclipse season year where sex and pleasure are the emblematic astrological signature. The energy of the Partial Solar Eclipse New Moon in Taurus, that occurred this past weekend, will be present during the duration of the lunar cycle.
With the Eclipse in Taurus, we are being asked to deeply activate our full sensory experience: scent, sight, touch, taste, and hearing all get to come out and play.
Taurus is the energy of sensuality itself. Venus-rules Taurus invites you to ground into the sensual experience of being in your body.
The following rituals can be done solo or in partnership. The key here is to embrace a gentle and kind demeanor in the bedroom. The astrology is NOT inviting hard impact play. Create a sacred space in your playroom by lighting some candles, burning incense, placing an altar, & playing celestial music.
Suggested Crystals to work with: Amethyst & Clear Quartz
Are you feeling it?
Have you surrendered?
In the last Venus in Wanderland blog post, I referenced the impending magic of Venus moving into Pisces. Now that she is fully in the mystical, magical, imaginative, dreamer, loving, and kind energy of Pisces, your relationships have taken a mystical turn. Or perhaps, in the shadow of this energy, a delusional and ungrounded turn…
Venus loves being in Pisces. She's exalted here, excited and activated under the Piscean influence of awe and wonder. You get to relish in this magic.
You've been feeling it if you've been noticing how the veil between life and death, between earth and heaven, the physical and the ethereal, has thinned significantly. You have been noticing the interweaving of holographic reality. The world seems to have a thin layer of fog around it. The mystical force-field apparent.
Venus invites you to explore the romantic world. To explore the unconditional love experience of oneness. We find ourselves in a very powerful, unique and singular time suspension as Venus prances her way through Pisces.
On April 12, the most significantly astrological event of the year (maybe even several years) occurs. Both of Pisces' planetary rulers, Jupiter and Neptune, will form and exact conjunction on this day. We've already been in the feels of this conjunction for a couple of weeks already, with its power and presence growing stronger as the planets inch closer and closer together.
Jupiter is the expansive jovial planet which is said to be the luckiest planet in astrology. And while I don't ascribe to luck, or fortune, as more traditional astrologers do because I hold the vision that we create our luck and fortune, through our choices, Jupiter is the pushover grandpa who lovingly spoils his grandkids. He comes bearing gifts every time he visits. I like to think about Jupiter as Santa Claus who even though we're taught he'll only bring gifts if we're nice, he nonetheless brings them if you've been naughty too. A lot of a good thing, however, can be bad… That's where we meet the shadow Jupiterian energy.
And then we have Neptune. Neptune is the ruler of Pisces in modern astrology. Neptune is the sea of consciousness energy behind Pisces. Neptune points to that which cannot be experienced with our physical senses. Our sensory experience cannot encapsulate the energy of energy, the energy of the Goddess and of consciousness itself. It is dreamy, ethereal, otherworldly, illusory, imaginative, creative, and artistic. A loss of connection to the physical, is its shadow energy.
Now, even though Jupiter and Neptune go conjunct about every 13 years, what makes this celestial event poignant, is that they both find themselves at home in Pisces AND coming together. To put things in perspective, the last time both of these planets were in Pisces and in a conjunction was in 1856.
This celestial conjunction of the Gods of Gods creates this illusion of thinning veils between realms.
The sweeping emotions you've been experiencing these past days, the confusion, lack of clarity, the momentary faith in all things Divine immediately followed by falling prey to the matrix, are all due to this heavy Piscean influence.
We have been entering a portal which solidifies with this April 12th conjunction. Your dreamscapes have been vivid with dreams carrying divinely guided messages from your Higher Self. Your intuitive and psychic gifts are coming online and strengthening to a new level.
Observe your instinct to disregard anything of this third-dimensional world as evil or wrong. Observe your attachment to detachment and then allow yourself to float into inner space. Activate this energy through meditation, connecting to your yoniverse where only the most magical wanders exist, go sit in a plant medicine ceremony, travel through psychedelic space, immerse yourself in subspace. The void is where the light shines brightest, explore it. Call in your Spirit Guides, your ability to actually hear them grows louder and clearer. Pull some oracle cards.
Working with Clear Quartz and Amethysts crystals here will best support you in clearing the physical energies and densities to connect you to the Divine realms with ease. Trust your intuitive powers as the Goddess within walks next to you. Connecting to your yoni with the added influence of the celestial properties of these crystals can catapult into the zero-point space within with ease. Open yourself to orgasmic downloads.
All of this energy activates deeper when Venus forms a sexy sextile to Uranus in Taurus, giving you the opportunity to bring all the illuminates down to earth, grounding them deep into the soil. If you allow yourself to claim your material experience as Divine, you ignite mystery and wonder to your life experience.
We are talking about miracles here.
You are a miracle. You have the power to create miracles.
Thus, expect the miracles
-Vanessa Kristina
Astrologer and Writer
Vanessa Kristina, founder of Mystik Monark, helps Mystik Misfits to uncover their Divine Purpose and shine light on their shadows through a no-BS spiritual counseling approach. Mystik Monark's mission is to connect Society to Divinity, one soul at a time.
As an Evolutionary Astrologer & Akashic Records Practitioner, Vanessa guides clients out of the existential spiritual closet and through dark nights of the soul so that they can unlock authentic expression and create their dream lives to experience the freedom, joy, and abundance of their soul-selves, through her signature Inner Mystik Mastery program. As a former corporate attorney, she integrates pragmatic actionable guidance with esoteric wisdom, inspiring a deep inner standing of who we are and who we came here to be.
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We send off Venus through her journey in Aquarius this week as she readies to shift into new cosmic oceans of love with Pisces. As we say goodbye to the individualist, to embracing our inner freak, we say hello to our inner dreamy romantic...
However, before we get there, on March 28th Venus will be making a visit to a counterpart planet she is not necessarily super in love with: Saturn. This conjunction (aka fusion of planets) affords us one last opportunity to examine the frequency of the nature of our choices to ensure our karmic consequences match our desires.
Our relationships receive another hard look.
This marks a time period where we're finally moving completely out of the Venusian initiation of looking into our karma, our relationships, and ourselves with a critical filter. For the next week, we experience the embrace of tough love, not only with ourselves, but also with other people and situations.
You might feel hyper critical of your choices and situations in your life, especially regarding those projects you are not accomplishing or putting your effort into.
It's not welcoming energy, yet necessary. The experiences and reality of your life are a direct reflection of your choices. You create your reality through them. Saturn teaches us this. Even though time may not be "real" in the 4th or 5th dimensions (and above), it's very inextricable from our 3D reality. Saturn reminds us of this as well. Thus, time is of the essence to get focused on achieving your desires, your goals, by following what brings you joy, beauty, & pleasure through your actionable CHOICES!
While the cosmic energy toughens up on us a bit, this doesn't mean that it needs to be hard. You can bring in all the lessons you've learned throughout your journey during the first quarter of the year. Look back to your new year's resolutions and ask yourself, "What did I say I was committed to accomplishing this year, that I have not really committed to through my actions?"
Revisit your commitments, get clear on what's been stopping you, and then after gaining clarity, put the plan into action.
Through Venus' dance in Aquarius, you've hopefully gained a new perspective on what makes you uniquely different. What unique gift do you get to bring into the world that you haven't yet?
This energy, though it may not feel like rainbows and butterflies, indeed prepares you for the rainbows and butterflies that you get to experience in the week shortly after. Taking ownership of how you are 100% responsible for the relationships that show up in your life and the way these relationships show up in your life, liberates you from your self-imposed prison.
This self inquiry really prepares you for the astrological new year taking full embodied effect with the New Moon in Aries on March 31st. This marks the time where energetically you can now put all those plans and goals into action.
Aries' courageous instinctual, no f***s given attitude, gives you permission to "just do it!" The Aries archetype is rooted in the very human fight or flight response we all carry in reaction to perceived danger. So, what is the danger here being perceived? The expansion of your soul which is derived from accomplishing your goals. Utilize this shift in perspective to give you the necessary ammunition to begin, to take action.
All of this taking-new-action energy based on new reflections, brings you into a very cosmically delicious energy that permeates the month of April. I will share additional downloads in the next blog post about what’s coming. For now, know that April is a time to get lost in the cosmic sauce…
The Venus game changes completely on April 5th when she moves into the sign of Pisces. Venus LOVES being in Pisces. Think romance, beauty, kindness, compassion… These are the rainbows and butterflies we've been begging for all year!
It's the maraschino cherry on top of a wacky year we so deserve.
Venus in Pisces embodies the epitome of the Goddess. She's about accessing Divinity within us all. It's about accessing your imagination and creating from within that space.
It's about the pleasure you experience when you connect to the Goddess within and without. It is the psychedelic realm of imaginative explorations that can only be experienced by attuning to the infinite frequency of the ever-expanding yoUniverse (and yoniverse ;).
This is Pisces. The Venusian landscape brings all of this energy into our hearts as the Goddess herself brings us our ability to connect with each other in multidimensional realms.
This is the time for you to remember that you are infinitely more than human.
Honor this energy through the Divine embrace of embodying your Sacred Sexuality. Become whole and wholly through the rite of Divine Union with the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine. Ecstatic orgasms bring you into the physical experience of your multidimensional self.
THIS is Venus in Pisces.
Sacred pleasure is your Divine Right. It's what you came here to experience in this world.
Go play with you. Play with others, connect deeply, get lost in the eyes of your lover. Get lost in the gaze of you.
This unconditional embodied love through pleasure is the energy that Rose Quartz emanates. Pure, unadulterated, ecstatic bliss engaging your heart center. Its abundant connection to the Divine Heart is what we came to play with. When you pass through the last gate of initiation and see the hard truths, you'll step fully through that center gate that connects you to the infinitely blossoming Rose within you.
-Vanessa Kristina
Astrologer and Writer
Vanessa Kristina, founder of Mystik Monark, helps Mystik Misfits to uncover their Divine Purpose and shine light on their shadows through a no-BS spiritual counseling approach. Mystik Monark's mission is to connect Society to Divinity, one soul at a time.
As an Evolutionary Astrologer & Akashic Records Practitioner, Vanessa guides clients out of the existential spiritual closet and through dark nights of the soul so that they can unlock authentic expression and create their dream lives to experience the freedom, joy, and abundance of their soul-selves, through her signature Inner Mystik Mastery program. As a former corporate attorney, she integrates pragmatic actionable guidance with esoteric wisdom, inspiring a deep inner standing of who we are and who we came here to be.
The Courage to Be Uniquely You
Feeling the shift?
Take a deep breath of fresh cosmic air because Venus is finally and officially fully out of hardworking and a** kicking Capricorn. Venus succumbed to Capricorn's hooves back in November 2021, stationing there ever since and just last week she finally transitioned into Aquarius.
If you missed the blog post, I delved into what Venus and Mars moving into Aquarius would bring us.
In a nutshell, Venus empowers you to give the middle figure to societal expectations that encourage you to fit in. She grows in strength and courage, especially after "doing the work" through her Capricornian escapade and gives you permission to embrace your inner freak.
Venus invites you to embrace pleasure by trying on something new and different. She stays in Aquarius for the duration of the month, slightly bleeding into April. Thus, the rest of this month carries the signature of exploring your individuality. Deriving pleasure and joy by being your own unique starflake. She gives you permission to detach from the expectations and judgments present in your relationship and to replace them with your uniqueness.
You get to celebrate and remember where home is: the stars. Your galactic nature flourishes and blossoms. However, you MUST activate this remembrance…
But, how?
Create an individuated experience of yourself and your relations.
What makes you feel unique, different, flirty and fun? Carefree?
Maybe it's wearing that new funky outfit you've been wanting to show off but have been hiding for fear that you might be perceived as "too much…" Venus encourages you to be ALL THE WAY out there.
Venus calls for you to heal those wounds of needing to be liked. It is safe to be different.
This journey of soul evolution happens by breaking free from the status quo. And will require some inner child healing. You heal your inner child when you fully get and understand that it's none of your business what other people think of you. It is not your business to be well-liked. To be a "lady." To conform. To tone it down so that you can appease others and make others comfortable.
And I'm not just talking about social settings… I'm talking about ALL your relations. Your family, your husbands and wives, your lovers, best friends, social circles, bosses, employees.
It serves absolutely no one to play small and to do what you're told if what you're told doesn't align to your values.
When you choose to stand in the courage of your convictions, that little child inside of you melts in joy and gratitude overwhelm.
Dance to the beat of your own drum. Don't expect others to drum for you.
When you empower you, you empower others.
Ultimately, you are here to do YOUR Divine Expression. To embody being a goddess onto yourself, standing in full sovereignty of your individuated expression. Every sovereign step you take leaves a trail of blooming flowers of Divine empowerment, gifting permission to others to be the same.
You are the sovereign individuated wounded healer.
You will be challenged by circumstances. They will come out of left field and they will test your stability as well as your faith.
But if you ground in the knowledge that when you follow the pleasure of living on your terms and you don't allow other people's perspectives to infiltrate your inner knowing, the Goddess will take care of you.
…And if you feel you may need a little help, working with a Carnelian Yoni Egg at this time will be highly beneficial being a stone of motivation and confidence that helps boost the power of your true expression with clarity and grounding.
She holds you through the challenges, the tests, the initiations, which are meant to show you that when you let go of your human needs to be safe & have it all figured out, of your ego's desire to stay small so that it can remain safely secure and unthreatened, of societal paradigms founded on the reptilian brain's survival instinct, then you transcend your humanity into your Divinity, and thus become a key player in birthing the Aquarian Age.
You are Divine.
Nothing can threaten you but your persistence to stay small.
-Vanessa Kristina
Astrologer and Writer
Vanessa Kristina, founder of Mystik Monark, helps Mystik Misfits to uncover their Divine Purpose and shine light on their shadows through a no-BS spiritual counseling approach. Mystik Monark's mission is to connect Society to Divinity, one soul at a time.
As an Evolutionary Astrologer & Akashic Records Practitioner, Vanessa guides clients out of the existential spiritual closet and through dark nights of the soul so that they can unlock authentic expression and create their dream lives to experience the freedom, joy, and abundance of their soul-selves, through her signature Inner Mystik Mastery program. As a former corporate attorney, she integrates pragmatic actionable guidance with esoteric wisdom, inspiring a deep inner standing of who we are and who we came here to be.
The Leo Full Moon of last week brought us a haunting of the ghosts of our negative toxic patterns past. While still in the energy of that full moon, we have an opportunity to clear and continue releasing these patterns that no longer serve to bring forth healing, reconciliation, and transformation with ourselves and others, to create peace and stability. These old patterns keep us from shining the light of our authentic self radiantly, dimming our will power to create.
For the next few weeks, the juiciness of the Mars-Venus surrendered dance together continues, with passion and romance filling the air.
With the Sun having moved into mystical Pisces on February 18 and later on, with the New Moon in Pisces on March 2, additional magic and connection to the ethereal realms also abound. It's a time to drop into the magical essence of what it means to be divine, to have consciousness beyond the mind.
And even though Venus is still in a very uncomfortable sign, she takes some cues from the abundant Piscean energy to allow herself to build something longlasting by transforming illusions into reality. Her divine counterpart Mars, continuing to support her throughout her process.
On March 4, Pluto joins Mars and Venus in their dance, bringing with it shadow work, transformation, and power struggles for this power couple. This means your subconscious mind will be taking you for a ride in your relationships, asking for a release of what you really don't want to (or maybe feel like you can't) let go of. Asking you to unbury the darkness so that you build a harmonious inner and outer relationship with the world, instead of being ruled by taking actions subconsciously. Obsidian is all about shadow work, so this is a great time to use your Obsidian Yoni Egg if you have one.
Saying what you don’t mean and struggling to find the light of apologizing or finding it challenging to dig into your heart-center to forgive others. This is the type of energy we're dealing with here. You might want to hide your feelings, but only showing your true vulnerable colors is what will work in these times. Pluto comes in to say, "It's time to transform this relationship." And Pluto gets what it wants.
Again, pay attention to the themes that showed up in your relationships (with self and others) during Venus retrograde (i.e.: mid-December 2021 through January 29th). These next couple of weeks is your opportunity to finish the clearing cycle of all the gunk in this area of your life that you (hopefully) cleared out during that retro phase.
This may mean that people are coming back into your life, but because things have now changed, you may want to move forward with that person in a new and transformed way. Or continue with that person out of your life for good.
On March 5, Venus and Mars both move together into the sign of Aquarius. This palpable shift brings a rebirth of cosmic energy. Expect things to feel different in March. Venus moves into the humanitarian sign of the rebel. Aqaurius gives no f****s. Venus feels a sense of liberation now.
What does this Venusian (and Martian!) shift into Aquarius mean for your love and bedroom life???
It's time to bring out the freak-in-the-sheets, to experience experimental kink in the bedroom. Getting freaky with your partner can be divine. Venus (and Mars) in Aquarius told us so. ;)
Aquarians are a bit odd and weird and proud. They take pride in being different, in challenging the norm of the status quo. They might not be the best at expressing their feelings, but they do like to experiment. So bring this experimentation into the bedroom. Get creative.
Are there some funky out-there ideas or positions you've been wanting to try that you haven't yet due to maybe shame or fear of judgment from your partners? Or maybe there is that one fantasy you haven't yet fulfilled that you've always wanted to play out…
With the Piscean influence, stepping into another world and creating an illusion of fantasy to express the passion you're experiencing internally, in a safe and controlled environment (which Mars ensures), is JUST what the holistic doctor ordered.
Rebellious Aquarius gives you the permission to boldly declare, "It's time to try something new."
Overall, Venus moving into Aquarius inspires us to be individuals. To live life by our standards because that's what brings us joy and pleasure.
She also reminds us that pleasure lies in connecting to the collective, to spending time and sharing love with your tribe, your people, your community (so maybe sacred conscious orgy anyone?!?).
In many ways, the shockwaves of universal transformation we've gone through these past few years occurred to teach us how to go back to our ancestral roots of living in community, sharing space and sharing land.
Enjoy bringing out your inner Venusian freak!
-Vanessa Kristina
Astrologer and Writer
Vanessa Kristina, founder of Mystik Monark, helps Mystik Misfits to uncover their Divine Purpose and shine light on their shadows through a no-BS spiritual counseling approach. Mystik Monark's mission is to connect Society to Divinity, one soul at a time.
As an Evolutionary Astrologer & Akashic Records Practitioner, Vanessa guides clients out of the existential spiritual closet and through dark nights of the soul so that they can unlock authentic expression and create their dream lives to experience the freedom, joy, and abundance of their soul-selves, through her signature Inner Mystik Mastery program. As a former corporate attorney, she integrates pragmatic actionable guidance with esoteric wisdom, inspiring a deep inner standing of who we are and who we came here to be.
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Impassioned Desire Grows Through Disciplined Play
As February continues to roll on through, the passion of Venus intensifies thanks to its celestial connections, just in time for the month touted as the time to celebrate love…
From the Venusian perspective, however, what remains of this month is not so much about embracing romance as it is about experiencing passion.
That multifaceted long-lasting passion that heals, brings order to the heart, and creates stability. It's the type of passion that gives rise to endurance in relationships through commitment and effort.
Working with Red Jasper at this time is highly recommended as it can be very beneficial to reignite the passion and energize areas in your body that may feel a bit sluggish or inactive helping move vital life force energy within you.
Sourced from the two sky lovers, the Goddess of Love and the God War, Aphrodite and Ares - Venus and Mars - slowly inching closer together, they unite in cosmos with a dance of action and discipline, approaching each other's presence to express their tales of initiation and life experiences that they've lived through their journey in the sign of Capricorn.
Venus, having lived through quite a tumultuous undoing during her retrograde phase, seeks some solace in her action-drive stellar counterpart Mars.
We've been experiencing this planetary influence of the planets of love, beauty and the planet of sex, aggression, and passion, since the beginning of the month. The closer they approach each other, the more their passion is felt down on Earth, increasing and culminating with their exact conjunction on the 16th of the month, which is also when the Full Moon in Leo occurs.
The desire to be seen by our partners runs rampant. As well as the desire to play like the leonine child.
It's an electric time.
Mars and Venus will continue to move together in strong connection with each other and very close proximity for the rest of the month and into March. This means that we'll be feeling their fiery trail for some time.
February 14th, that day societally reserved for lovers, features some significant astrological and energetic shifts.
For one, Mercury who is now fully back to its direct motion, moves into the sign of Aquarius on this day, bringing with it a desire to innovate futuristic expression. You might feel more social than romantic, but the emphatic influence of Mars and Venus together is inevitable.
An astrologically aligned Valentine's date might look like a social gathering with friends followed by a steamy night cap of embodied passion in private with a lover. And for this astrological influence, there is a strong impulse to share this energy with a lover…
Let's dive deeper into the astrological significance of these two planets making love in the sky.
Mars shows us how we are here to take action. It's the aspect within us that sparks courage, will power, and ability to take action in our life. It's where fueled desire lies, that energy that propels us into moving forward with our plans and actions.
As the God of War, Mars is aggressive, decisive, and at times, unforgiving. It goes after what it wants. And in the sign of Capricorn, it does so swiftly, with calculation, precision, and accuracy. Mars excels in this sign as it gives movement & inspiration to achieving goals, which now have the requisite amount of fire to make them happen.
Now Venus. His lover. His muse. Without Venus, Mars would have nothing to fight for. No inspiration, no source of desire. Because he and her have their first dance of the year in the sign of Capricorn, a place that Venus is not quite as comfortable with as her counterpart is, Venus in Capricorn feels a tad thwarted. Bored. Frustrated.
Venus is more concerned with creating beauty and harmony, with showcasing and emanating love. Capricorn sees no need for these quandaries as its focus is all about the work that gets to be done. We've all experienced this Venusian discomfort already through her retrograde period.
So Venus falls into the arms of Mars, experiencing a sense of comfort there, cuddled by his inspired desire to have her in his presence. She experiences purpose as now her beauty is the source of Mars' driving force. In return, Mars, strengthened by his position, guides his lover Venus, holding her, educating her on the important necessity of this Capricornian energy Venus has had quite the ride with.
Capricorn is no stranger to discipline. In fact, you can almost say it rules over discipline and boundaries. And Mars gladly instills these.
As Mars trains Venus with his stern yet loving empowered discipline, Venus learns to surrender, nurturing her innermost and deepest desires of being received and taken care of.
And what better way to move with these energies than to practice some safe surrender into the arms of the disciplined, controlled, and lovingly calculated Divine Masculine?
This is where exploring the seductive world of Bondage, Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadomasochism, aka BDSM, comes in…
As Venus and Mars engage in a powerful exchange of power and play, kissed by the ignition of mystical magic that Neptune will bring closer to the end of the month to these planets, you too can follow suit by consciously and safely exploring your own limits of submission and surrender.
There is much to be gained from learning discipline within the context of play in the bedroom. It is the ultimate test of surrender to submit in trust to a fully embodied Divine Masculine as a fully embodied Devine Feminine counterpart.
Allow Mars to take you deep into your desires with the structure and rigor for you to explore your inner beauty, from which you get to create deeper harmony.
Channel the aggression and passion into something productive.
This aggressive passion can consume without structure and direction. The Full Moon in Leo adds fuel to this fire, bringing with it the necessary ease and joy of play into the bedroom.
Release your inner child. Get playful and tame the insubordinate aspects of your inner child that cry out for attention because it didn’t receive the structured discipline founded in unconditional love it needed growing up just as much as the play.
Explore the new level of your Divinity through immersed surrender into guided pleasure.
-Vanessa Kristina
Astrologer and Writer
Vanessa Kristina, founder of Mystik Monark, helps Mystik Misfits to uncover their Divine Purpose and shine light on their shadows through a no-BS spiritual counseling approach. Mystik Monark's mission is to connect Society to Divinity, one soul at a time.
As an Evolutionary Astrologer & Akashic Records Practitioner, Vanessa guides clients out of the existential spiritual closet and through dark nights of the soul so that they can unlock authentic expression and create their dream lives to experience the freedom, joy, and abundance of their soul-selves, through her signature Inner Mystik Mastery program. As a former corporate attorney, she integrates pragmatic actionable guidance with esoteric wisdom, inspiring a deep inner standing of who we are and who we came here to be.
]]>The Goddess finally completes her initiatory ascent and begins her renewal process tomorrow, January 29th, when she stations direct. After 40 days of being in retrograde, Venus now moves forward, signaling a green light to take new action based on your new awareness of what needed shifting and releasing that came during her retrograde phase. Maybe that lover that you released from your life made room for you to start dating again, or perhaps it was a friend that you needed to let go of, which now brings you a new more divinely aligned friendship into your life.
What's extra delicious about Venus going direct on this day, is that she joins her celestial sister, the Moon when she does. Venus conjuncts the moon (i.e.: moves right next to her) at least once every lunar cycle. You can often see Venus right next to the moon when this happens, and the moon is out. The days where Venus finds herself in the presence of the moon are magical ones gifting you an opportunity to align to beauty, the mystical, and the Divine Feminine creatrix within.
Venus-Moon conjunctions are a time to experience activations that juice you up. To embrace and call-in love. Whether that is self-love or romantic love or family love, sensuality, and divinity merge on these days. Soak it up!
However, keep in mind that Mercury is in retrograde for about another week, so while you might feel a shift in innergy, hasty action isn't in alignment. The revision process isn't fully over until Mercury also joins her Venusian counterpart in moving forward, which happens on February 3rd.
Also, just because these two planets begin their direct motion, doesn't mean that the introspective action is over!
For the next couple of weeks, we will be in both of their shadows, so the themes that were illuminated through the past month will show up again as new opportunities to clear your energy further (read on for my Venus/New Moon ritual below to activate this energy!!!)
We're also in the balsamic moon phase, the phase to restore and recharge your energies as the moon readies to begin a new cycle around the Earth with the New Moon in Aquarius happening on the early hours of February 1st (or the night of January 31st, depending on where you're located).
As new moons are always the most opportune time to connect to your inner goddess, to that intuitive Priestess energy that resides within you, to connect to the cycles of nature, this new moon affords a delicious opportunity to integrate all the energies that have surfaced and that have been activated throughout the year.
I invite you to complete this Venusian & New Moon ritual by the night of the 31st, BEFORE the new moon:
Grab a crystal of your choice that you connect with for intention setting. I love working with Obsidian as it is the dark moon stone, an energy worker that dwells in the shadows of our subconscious minds. She allows for deep introspection and the cosmic energies are all about that right now. If you have an obsidian yoni egg, even better, as you can program your yoni egg with your reflections and intentions.
Grab your journal. Make sure it’s a physical one, i.e.: pen & paper, nothing digital. Create a sacred space in your home. It can be at your altar, in your room, your office. Wherever you feel called. Make your space sacred by bringing in a candle, creating a mini-crystal grid, clearing the area out, and burning some incense or sage. The key here is to create a cozy and comfortable environment for you to connect.
Holding the crystal or yoni egg in your left hand, this is your receiving side (if you are left-handed, then you can hold it in your right hand), close your eyes, and center your breath. Connect to your guides, your Higher Self, your ancestors. Get still and present.
When you feel ready, open your eyes and begin to journal. Your focus will be on revisiting what transpired in your life in the last month and a half. Since mid-December until the present moment, what have you experienced? You can use the following prompts for your journaling exercise:
As you focus on reflecting through the Venus retrograde journey, observe what comes up as a potential idea/project for planting new seeds this lunar month. Allow the journaling exercise and prompts to get you centered and focused on what you want to create in your life for the Aquarian New Moon. And then write those intentions down too!
Once you're complete with your journaling exercise, plant your crystal in the earth. It can be by a tree, or in a plant you have at home. Allow for your intentions to travel through the soil and your crystal to get super-charged. When the full moon comes, on February 16th you can un(b)earth your crystal or yoni egg. Work with her for the rest of the month, using it as a tool to remind you of your intentions and of your growth.
This new lunar cycle which will take up the entire month February, will be one where your shadows will be put to the test. Unexpected circumstances and experiences might surface. Your foundation might be shaken up a bit (yes, again), but with it comes the opportunity of divine intervention!
How you communicate will undergo a transformation. Deeper conversations about real issues will surface. Be aware of power struggles within yourself or with others. You might have something set in motion that you wanted to change, so pay attention to your thoughts.
Be open to possibilities.
Don't allow yourself to get stuck in only one way of doing things or solving problems.
You will be shown emotional triggers ready to be released for you to step deeper into your inner peace.
If you can move through the potentially volatile circumstances and thoughts with conscious awareness, then you'll experience new levels of emotional stability that are only possible when you courageously choose to address the reflection staring back when you look at yourself in the black mirror.
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-Vanessa Kristina
Astrologer and Writer
Vanessa Kristina, founder of Mystik Monark, helps Mystik Misfits to uncover their Divine Purpose and shine light on their shadows through a no-BS spiritual counseling approach. Mystik Monark's mission is to connect Society to Divinity, one soul at a time.
As an Evolutionary Astrologer & Akashic Records Practitioner, Vanessa guides clients out of the existential spiritual closet and through dark nights of the soul so that they can unlock authentic expression and create their dream lives to experience the freedom, joy, and abundance of their soul-selves, through her signature Inner Mystik Mastery program. As a former corporate attorney, she integrates pragmatic actionable guidance with esoteric wisdom, inspiring a deep inner standing of who we are and who we came here to be.
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As we move through the energies of 2022, this blog will be centered around the major astrological energies influencing us, with a particular emphasis on the planet of love, beauty, and romance: Venus.
With each new post released every other Friday, the day of the week correlated to Venus, the focus will be on the upcoming energies for the next two weeks, including major celestial movements.
We have speedily made it halfway through the first month of 2022. And we have certainly hit the ground running!
Prepare yourself for even more significant shifts and rebirths happening in this year full of potential to expand into your juiciest expression of magic.
So, without further ado…
What does 2022 have in store for you?
As I sit here dropping into these energies, Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" comes to mind. The Goddess of Love, standing in her naked glory atop a clam shell, as the pearl of life that she is. Enriched with confidence and standing in somber contemplation, Venus awaits to receive what's to come, knowing, trusting, that what she receives is meant for her.
When the waters get turbulent this year, I invite you to turn to this image for inspiration on how to navigate the mysticism that awaits you. It might not be easy, but it will be simple.
The key this year will be to remain aligned to the Taurean virtues of simplicity (Venus rules over the signs of both Taurus and Libra).
Connecting to the simplicity of your pleasure centers, what makes you feel good, is how you win. And pleasure can be found both outside and inside your body, but the emphasis is more so on the carnal embodied pleasures that Taurus energy brings us.
We began the year with significant astrological shifts and movements, the influences of which we have already felt: a renewing New Moon in Capricorn, a powerful Pluto-Venus conjunction transforming our relationships to everything, and a mystically expansive Jupiter moving into its home sign of Pisces.
Let's begin with this new moon energy:
New Moons begin new cycles. It's a time to plant the seeds of what you wish to see grow in your life. With our current Capricornian lunar cycle having happened on the second day of the year, it also marked the energy of what the rest of the year can look like and of the fruits that can blossom.
In the sign of Capricorn, which is all about accessing discipline and rigor to climb the mountain top of your goals and dreams, this season of new year’s resolutions was jam-packed with the energetic availability of putting your goals into action as long as you have a solid game-plan.
But if you don't have that game plan set yet, don't worry! The entire month of January is a reflective period for you to figure out what that plan is for you exactly.
Now moving on to the real reason we're all here: Venus.
Venus has been in its retrograde phase (which happens every 18 months) since December 19, 2021. When a planet goes retrograde, it's primary function takes an introspective turn, thwarting its ability to effectively function and perform its duties.
What this means for Venus, whose function is the evocation of beauty, the invocation of love, the harmonizing of relationships, and the embodiment of pleasure, is that she takes a hard look at all the situations (people, places, things) that are NOT fulfilling her needs.
So as Venus does her inward dance, so do we, going through a deep initiation into the areas of our lives where we have given more than we have received, where we have undervalued ourselves, and where our centers of joy have been seemingly taken from us.
Venus wants us to be honest with ourselves and look at what the missing foundational pieces to the puzzle of our relationships are. The relationships that used to feel stable and secure, no longer do and they need a new foundation.
Our personal relationships have taken the biggest hit of them all. Whether you are partnered up or single, all your relationships, including the one you have with yourself, have been under a microscope. Capricorn energy can be ruthless. Thus, we find ourselves being just as strict with our standards. We can no longer tolerate people in our lives who take us for granted, who treat us in ways we don't deserve, who don't uphold the values that are important to us.
Relationships are meant to support us in our personal growth.
If they don't serve us or build us up, then they must shift, or else, go. We can no longer continue building on shaky relational grounds.
And so, the main takeaway? The need to release these relationships has been arising and will continue to arise as Venus completes her inward journey.
It's time to either grow together or grow apart. Situations will continue to come up in your relationships that will show you this until you make that shift.
What's also being put under a microscope is your own relationship to your body.
As the Creatrix of Pleasure in the sign that's more centered on career success, work, and hard effort than play, both of these energies feel at odds with each other, creating an internal dilemma: you want to be productive, but your body is asking for something else. For one reason or another, productivity, the way you've had it, just isn't coming through. And so, in order to navigate these energies successfully, you get to shift your focus on what you deem productive. It's about engaging productivity through activating your pleasure centers.
For example, a lot of us right now are being plagued with going through the pressure of succumbing to sickness and disease. So your goals and new year's resolutions had to be put on pause, causing a lot of internal frustration. Venus says, "Don't waste your energy being upset over what you can't change. If you can't work, or exercise, find something else you CAN do, that will fulfill you, that perhaps you've been putting off due to said pressure created from said work you think you should be doing."
You are in a time where you get to go back to build upon and focus on YOU.
Connect with your body. And what better way to do so than to connect (or reconnect) with your yoni?
Your yoni is the Venusian gateway to your womanhood, it IS your pleasure center, creation center, your Wanderland. If you've been meaning to go deeper with your practice of connecting to yourself or you've been planning on getting started, the Venus retrograde time period is the perfect opportunity to have that reset.
It is the time now to destroy an old pattern and rewrite a new story. Utilize the tools at your disposition, your yoni wands and yoni eggs as manifestation tools to envision the goal that you want to achieve this year. It doesn't matter that we're already two weeks in, the reset can happen now, if you so choose!
Here are some recommendations on crystals to work with for this period:
Carnelian, the stone of courage and confidence and Red Jasper, the Action Taker, are two powerful stone allies that can support you in this process.
Connect with your toys, set your intentions on how you want to re-establish that connection to yourself through your body, and then have fun with it as you explore! Leave the judgments of what the "right or wrong" way to "do it" is behind (Capricorn always has "thoughts" on how things "should be done," ignore them!) and embrace YOUR way!
As we continue to move through the rest of the month, continue to pay attention to what unfolds in your life and your relationships. Venus goes back in its direct motion on January 29th, giving us the strength and receptivity to move forward with your goals. However…
We do have another planet going retrograde today. One you're likely more familiar with its retrograde motion than any other planet: Mercury.
Mercury often goes retrograde (about every 4 months). It's a period when your mental faculties take that introspective turn, so your ability to think sharply is diminished, affecting your ability to process thoughts and communicate effectively.
Mercury begins its backwards dance through the sign of Aquarius and then into Capricorn for the next three weeks. You might feel more disconnected from people than you normally do during this time. And your goals will take another revision process.
It's a time to slow down and bring more consciousness into your actions, especially how you use your words. Being that communication is quintessential in any effective relationship, Mercury retrograde can also take a toll on your relationships (as if Venus being retro wasn't enough!).
This month is basically about taking the time to slow down, reassess, reevaluate, and clean house. And because the energy of this month carries over into the energy of the year (as I mentioned in the beginning) , how you choose to navigate the rest of this trying month has the capacity to set you up for the success you so desire this year.
A bit of effort in consciousness will go a significantly long way…
This year holds the potential of your labor bearing ALL of your intended fruits. For this, we have Jupiter spending the entire year in its home sign of the romantic and mystical Pisces to thank for.
Pisces finds her two ruling planets: Jupiter and Neptune, comfortable in her home. This means that your ability to tap into the infinite resource of Goddess magic and consciousness is at your fingertips.
It's a Pisces-heavy year. Romance, magic, enjoyment, mysticism, deep soul connection, creativity, and physical death of the material are at an all-time high.
The cosmos has gifted us a magic wand to create at the will of our heart's desire.
Limitless potential and possibilities abound.
Don't be fooled by the illusion of the 3D reality that we'll face collectively (A LOT of shifts are coming for us) and instead stay grounded with your feet planted on Earth and your heart pointed toward the abundant sky.
Connect with your magical toys. Use them. They'll guide you.
Your heart knows the way, it too, will guide you
-Vanessa Kristina
Astrologer and Writer
Vanessa Kristina, founder of Mystik Monark, helps Mystik Misfits to uncover their Divine Purpose and shine light on their shadows through a no-BS spiritual counseling approach. Mystik Monark's mission is to connect Society to Divinity, one soul at a time.
As an Evolutionary Astrologer & Akashic Records Practitioner, Vanessa guides clients out of the existential spiritual closet and through dark nights of the soul so that they can unlock authentic expression and create their dream lives to experience the freedom, joy, and abundance of their soul-selves, through her signature Inner Mystik Mastery program. As a former corporate attorney, she integrates pragmatic actionable guidance with esoteric wisdom, inspiring a deep inner standing of who we are and who we came here to be.
Enjoy $10 OFF when purchasing any of the suggested items using coupon code: VIW10
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