Friday Evening Talk: Venus in our lives and relationships

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Drawing from layers of Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman myths of Venus and her many lovers, we will explore the desires, needs, and action urges that constellate when caught in the goddess’s irresistible magnetism and a variety of ways this can play out through Venus's aspects natally, and by transit.  We will explore her relationships with the beautiful-yet-tragic Adonis, the old shepherd Anchises, and of course her famous relationship with Ares/Mars, as well as earlier stories of the Mesopotamian Innana and her lover Dumuzi.  We will examine how these stories come alive in natal charts and through transits and synastry, discovering themes of eros, renewal, loss, attraction, repulsion, and desire that live in every sky and every person. By exploring Her many magical and sacred possessions as expressions of Soul, we will develop a deeperappreciation of the nature of Venus in the natal chart, and what her deepest preoccupations may be.  How do each appear in our own lives, and where can our girded loins, our self-regard, our aesthetic sense, our self-care, lead us?

Saturday Afternoon Experiential Workshop: The Great Goddess: Venus by Day, Night, and Twilight

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Following Mary Oliver’s advice to “let the soft animal of your body love what it loves,” in this workshop we will step into the stories and the archetypes directly, to develop a multidimensional perspective of Venus in our lives and relationships. Using the felt sense, imagery, movement, and music, we will develop a multisensory perception of Venus, and of the particular relational dynamics she draws to us through sign and house placement, aspect, dignity, debility, bonification, and maltreatment.