Venus Has Entered Taurus. Are You Ready to Receive?
Venus has just shifted into Taurus and we're beginning with the art of receptivity: how good are you at holding the good stuff?
Hey babes!
Venus has officially landed in Taurus today, so we’re entering a month-long portal of devotion, lush body-based rituals and romantic recipes. Think of it like silk robes, wisps of sandalwood and rose incense and big bowls of sauce-soaked pasta.
As we know now, Taurus is ruled by Venus, so Venus is home here in this constellation. This is a really beautiful transit to anchor into the body and into felt sensation - that slow kinda magic of letting ourselves be well-fed, well-adored and well-compensated.
With Venus in Aries we learnt all about re-centring self within love and art and beauty: acknowledging that messy kind of love, acting with sacred selfishness, acknowledging our yearnings and longings and meeting ourselves in the mirror. It was that bold and impulsive and sexy energy of sending a text at 2am instead of leaving it in our notes app or splashing art on canvas with no real plan. It was risky and exciting and asked us to really own our deeper desires to do what we want, when we want.
But now, with Venus in Taurus, we are coming home to the body and opening ourselves up to the magnetism of receptivity. Rather than pursuing, it’s about becoming the kind of woman who reclines with grace and an air of unbotheredness while life feeds her grapes. It is slow and sensual and luxurious, anchored in a deep sense of unapologetic worth.
A Month of Venusian Teachings
During Taurus Season we spoke a lot about embodiment, about pleasure, about the erotic, about sensuality. Now we’re turning those theories into a Venusian lens: art, love, beauty and money.
Every Friday this month, I’ll be sending you a little Venus Day sermon and here’s what we’ll be exploring:
Receptivity in Relationships
Luxury as a Frequency
The Art of Becoming Art
Commitment as Love Language
Receptivity in Relationships
Venus in Aries taught us to chase after our desires and to find that delicious electricity in our yearnings, but Venus in Taurus teaches us the energetics of being chosen through both sovereignty and receptivity. This kind of love is magnetic but patient and rooted. She fundamentally trusts that what’s aligned will arrive only because she’s not chasing it.
Let’s be real: sometimes we still mistake emotional hunger for chemistry. And that’s because so much of our relational patterns stem from what we believe we deserve at a cellular level.
Venus in Taurus asks us to check in here, like, really check in: What am I actually available for? And not in theory or intellectually or what our therapist says we deserve. But what our nervous system can actually receive.
Can we hold a love that’s consistent? Do we trust someone who texts back? Can we let ourselves be adored without scanning for the inevitable let down or waiting for the withdrawal?
This is all about doing the deeper work of expanding our capacity to hold the delicious things offered to us and gently rewiring the part of us that thinks the shoe is going to drop soon just because something feels good.
The thing is that receiving can sound very romantic, but it can feel wildly unsettling if our bodies still associates consistency with disappointment or attention with pressure.
Strengthening our nervous system to receive means letting your body learn, slowly and gently, that it is safe to let people in. Here are a few examples:
When your partner brings you coffee in bed instead of immediately jumping up to make them breakfast or feeling guilty that you're 'just lying there’, you actually say thank you and let yourself feel cared for.
Maybe your friend offers to pick you up something you need when you're overwhelmed and rather than that familiar panic of 'I can't be a burden' or 'I should be able to handle this myself,' you pause and actually say yes.
The next time when someone says 'you look amazing', instead of immediately deflecting with 'this old thing?' or 'I feel so ugh though,' you pause, look them in the eye and say 'thank you, I do feel good.' You let their words actually land in your body instead of batting them away like they're too much to hold.
Receiving is a muscle and like all muscles, it grows with repetition and a whole lot of grace.
A Practice of Daily Devotion to Receptivity
To really land this idea of receptivity, we’ll begin a daily practice. We can start right now: open your notes app to a new page. Jot down one thing you received: maybe from somebody you loved, maybe a nudge from your intuition, maybe something beautiful just appeared into your life. Continue to do this practice each evening.
These things don’t have to be a big grand romantic gestures. In Taurus territory, it’s the small gestures that hold the most weight like that quiet kind of safety that comes from the steadiness of a loved one or the unequivocal support for your new project from your friend or simply a tender glance from your lover.
We want to gently but actively begin to cultivate an openness to receiving. Think of it like a law of the cosmos: the more we begin to note what we are receiving, the more we expand our capacity to receive more. We teach our system that in fact it is safe to receive and most importantly, that we are definitely worthy of it.
Ritual: Venus Altar
To begin this transit, we’ll create an altar dedicated to beauty and pleasure.
To ground this transit, we’ll begin with a ritual: a little Venusian altar to house beauty and remind you daily that you are worthy of devotion. This will be a visual reminder of the bounty of beauty and love if we keep opening ourselves us to receive.
01 | Set the space
Find an area of your home that you can dedicate to a little Venus altar. Maybe it’s your coffee table, your desk, hallway table, bedside table: somewhere visible that says ‘I deserve beauty within reach.’ Clear the clutter and give it a loving wipe down so everything feels fresh and lovely.
02 | An ode to the senses
Place all the things that feel good to your senses: perhaps it is a candle in a scent you adore, some rose quartz, a bundle of dried herbs, fresh flowers, a little perfume bottle, a book you love, a page from a poem, some chocolate.
03 | Offerings
Each day for the month ahead, as you move through your life, collect a small item. Perhaps it’s a flower from your walk, a colourful feather or pretty shell or a fallen leaf that you pick up or a handwritten word from yourself or someone you love. Place it on the altar as an offering to beauty. A daily offering that says: I see the beauty in the everyday.
Jupiter In Cancer: Returning To Our Roots
Also this week: Jupiter - the planet of expansion and abundance - moves from Gemini into Cancer. Jupiter basically amplifies everything it touches.
Jupiter in Gemini was all about stimulation: thought loops, curiosity, ideas on ideas on ideas. Jupiter in Cancer, on the other hand, says slow down, girl. Let it land in the body.
Cancer is about our roots, our womb, our home, our descent: it is the archetype of the cosmic mother (and one I am really looking forward to delving into next month!) With Jupiter here, it expands whatever makes us feel safe, nourished, and emotionally fed.
And so with this transit we’re shifting from analysing our feelings to actually feeling them. Jupiter in Cancer expands whatever makes us feel rooted, protected and nourished. Over the next year or so we are looking at what the idea of home within means to us, where we are nurturing everybody else except ourselves and what real safety means to us.
We also want to look at what house Cancer governs in our charts - if you want help with this, I have all your birth details, so comment below and I can give you a mini reading!