Rulerships: love, beauty, sex, seduction, pleasure, desire, ancient wisdom, knowledge, mysticism, spirituality, life, harmony, unity, vitality, fertility, passion, abundance, victory, generosity, intuition, inspiration, the arts, and music.
Planetary Profile: understanding, serene, wise, elegant, harmonious, compassionate, intelligent, affectionate
Magick: romance, friendships, love in general, desire, marital happiness, harmony, obtaining wisdom and knowledge, intuition, the mystical, inspiration, creativity, emotional healing, joy, gentleness, fertility, success, triumph
Colours: emerald green, teal, turquoise
Plants: apples, pears, pomegranates, avocados, cherries, strawberries, figs, roses, lotus, myrrh, orchids, wheat, red sandalwood, damiana, chili peppers, hibiscus, laurel, cinnamon
Crystals and Minerals: copper, emerald, rose quartz, garnet, ruby, peridot,
Other: menstrual blood (also linked to Luna), Nagas
Instruments and Sounds: harp, violin, guitar, sitar, gentle flowing water, humming bees, nature sounds of day
Songs: Venusberg Theme (Venus and Tannhauser, Wagner), Barcarolle (Offenbach), O Fortuna (Orff), Concerto a Due Chori (F.1., No. 60, Vivaldi), Allegro Moderato (Tchaikovsky), Kyne’s Peace (Jeremy Soule)
Astrological Signs: Taurus and Libra
Areas of Body: the sexual organs
Deities of Venus: Lilith, Lucifer, Attar, Inanna-Ishtar, Astarte, Asherah, Al-Uzza, Isis, Hathor, Aphrodite, Eros, Venus, Shukra, Parvati, Lalita, Freyja
Like all celestial/planetary spirits, Venus is both masculine and feminine in order to maintain balance. In ancient times, humans associated the Morning Star as masculine and the Evening Star as feminine. Venus and Earth are both strongly connected, basically being “sister planets”. The Moon/Luna focusses and mirrors Venus’ influence.
“Love is a light that opens. I am the seed that is put inside. If truth is too hard to be told, if solitude is too dark to endure, if exhaustion is too deep to cross, then I am here for you. Close your eyes, I am a river of light flowing down to you. Don’t try to deserve, don’t try to take shape, be silent. For me to be with you, you do not need to achieve, to battle, to win, to conquer, to want, to endure, to sustain - nothing needs doing for me to be with you. Mine is the light that opens. Mine is the seed of life. Mine is the opening of the mouth. Mine is what grows unseen. I am the web of life, I am the loom of all beginnings, within me I carry the seeds of present and future. My light is life that runs across the sky on the threads of my web. Love is a light that opens and doesn’t confine. Mine is the seed of life that is put inside. My reagent is the vesting, the armoring, the being covering in bark. My deeds are always naked. My force is subtle and easily hindered, I do not pierce. I don’t open what does not want opening. I am tender and patient and will wait for desire to arrive. I am the force of the loom of life. My work takes place in silence, I don’t make any noise. The threads of the loom unite, love opens, I lay myself down and life emerges. I come and go unseen for I am blind.”
