Venus Retrograde Meditation
Venus Retrograde Beauty Bath - a meditation to support you through the season of Venus Retrograde & beyond.
One of my most favourite practices is spending time noticing nature and allowing myself to receive her beauty. So, I created a guided practice just for that!
This immersive nature noticing experience is designed to help you cultivate inner peace, balance and harmony, through bathing in the beauty of life during this Venus Retrograde, but honestly, it can be used any time you want to sip in beauty!
This Venus Retrograde Beauty Bath Immersion is a beautiful meditation to hold and support you through this season and beyond. Work with this potent, inward time, by strengthening your relationship with yourself through the support of nature.
How was September for you?
Personally, it was one of the toughest, yet revealing and deeply healing months I’ve had this year. It was challenging on all levels - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. The eclipse portal had just closed, but the ripple effects were still present and working their way through my life. Uranus was shaking things up as the yearly retrograde phase began. The Equinox was showing me where I needed balance, by pointing out where I was out of balance. And Venus, the planet of love and beauty entered her pre-retrograde shadow dance.
This year Venus is my ruling planet and I’m lucky enough to experience her retrograde during this year! She only does this dance every 18 months, so it’s not a yearly occurrence like most other planets.
When your ruling planet for that birth year goes retrograde you really feel it!
I’ve felt the influence of Venus moving through all areas of my life — work, home, health, goals, communication and relationships — helping me rearrange the furniture, clear out clutter and get super focused on what truly matters to me, where I want to place energy and own my worth.
Last year Mercury was my ruling planet and boy oh boy did I feel all those retrogrades in my head! Normally I’m not so impacted by 3-4 Mercury retrogrades we have each year, because I was born during Mercury Retrograde so it’s a familiar experience for me, woven into my body and psyche.
September was the pre-show warm up to her (Venus) main performance (retrograde) that goes from October 3/4 until November 13/14, with the cool down period taking us to December 15/16. In short, we are feeling this Venus review from September to mid December. It won’t impact everyone the same way. It may be more subtle for you or just as transformative as it is for me, it all depends on your unique birth chart and what cycle you’re currently in.
Venus Retrograde
This Venus Retrograde is flavoured by Scorpio and Libra. Asking us to turn our focus inwards for reviewing, reflecting, rewriting and re-doing in the areas Scorpio and Libra fall in your chart.
Venus is the planet that symbolises beauty, our values, love, attraction, pleasure, enjoyment, money, relationships and how we relate. So this is a period to pause and honour these parts of ourselves from now to mid December.
This retrograde is the perfect opportunity to take an honest look at the most important relationship of all, the one between YOU+YOU. To meet all parts of you with unconditional love and understanding (like you would a baby) but especially the parts you’ve hidden, shamed, judged or neglected.
Scorpio wants us to go deep, to look at the truth, and to own our power, recalling it from any places, people or things we’ve given it to. Libra then asks us to review our relationships and how we relate to our life and those in it. Here she wants us to be more balanced, cooperative and communicative, to move from the foundations of inner peace, with the truth, honesty and depth of Scorpio.
Venus is the ruling planet of Libra, so I see the core theme of this retrograde really bringing foucs to being our own best friend and filling up our cup first before we give to others.
Venus Retrograde questions to contemplate
What do you love? What do you enjoy? Are you making time for these things in your daily life?
What do you value? What's important for you in life right now? Are you prioritising these things or leave them until you’ve earnt it?
Are you filling up your joy cup? Do you allowing yourself to experience the pleasures of life in a healthy way?
What's your relationship with money? Are your relationships balanced and reciprocal? Is there any people pleasing to keep the peace?
Do you make time to create just for the fun, joy and pleasure of it?
What do you feel most drawn to right now? Are you allowing yourself to explore it or judging it in some way?
Use this really nourishing time for allowing yourself to bathe in the beauty of life, focusing on the beauty within and all around you.
Which is why I created this Venus Retrograde immersion (a guided meditation like experience) - because I really love creating experiences that help us all Return to Self! For me, Return to Self is about coming back home to yourself and your true nature, by feeling at home in your body and grounded into the foundations of inner peace you tend to regularly within.
That to me, is the essence of Venus.
Come back to this meditation anytime during Venus Retrograde and beyond.
And use this time to Return to Self, and your natural state of being.
