the inner path

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UNconscious VENUS

When it comes to profound transformation, illumination, connection to Spirit, we often hear about it either in spontaneous ways or through discipline and meditation. But, many believe a quicker path is through sacred union, is through intentional relationship, through love. While you will hear of monks or priests connecting to God through retreat, silence and isolation, this journey is one of connection. It is utilizing our daily human relationships as a path to spiritual metamorphosis, though we can only do this by making that choice, making the choice to choose the relationship as a vehicle, to choose to keep our hearts open and to invite transformation + growth through love.

In this module we are visiting the energy of our Unconscious Venus. As you bring awareness to this archetype and open up this pathway to the higher vibrations within, you tap into greater power and oft untapped potential. You can scroll down to see where to locate it on your bodygraph and then find the gate description here and read the key in the Gene Keys book (if you have it).

In addition to the specific thematics we are looking at below, Venus in your Human Design represents your basic moral dilemma in this life, our values, our integrity. Venus can also be about what we find beautiful and how we carry or express beauty. So look at the Gate (and your astrology) with all of this in mind.

shadow

The Shadow here is sometimes less about “shadow” and more about a re-member-ing, an invitation to come back to self, a recovery of what is lost, a reigniting of love.

This energy also invites us to make friends with our aloneness, to honor it, to even enjoy it and to find ways to express ourselves creatively in times of isolation to keep us connected to the collective.

These shadows reveal the inner work we will repeat over and over until we have fully integrated and accepted it. This comes from fully opening our heart to this challenge. Every time we recognize and become aware of a Shadow and we accept and embrace it, we unlock another gift within our DNA. 

This isn’t something to be fixed and then move on. These are the challenges we face over and over in our life. The healing that isn’t linear but a spiral, we circle back around, heal on a deeper level, unlock another gift. The more we continue to open and accept, the deeper we go and the more shadows and gifts we are able to reach. 

This is the embodiment of as below, so above; as within, so without. The internal unpacking is represented in our outer reality. 

gift

As you work with your Shadow, it is important to hold its Gift (and Highest Vibration) in the same container, to lean in.

The HIGHEST VIBRATION is essentially attained enlightenment. It is said that the act of seeking enlightenment is still a form of shadow. I touch briefly on the highest vibration b/c I think it’s a seed we plant toward spiritual realization. It’s not something we try to attain. When we reach for it, we are playing into Shadow.

This is, in essence, your relationships as Divine paths, as a place of devotion, and of emotion as poetry connected to depths beyond.

Lines

The line for this energy is the number after the decimal point of the gate. So if the number in the seventh box down on the left red column says 44.2, then your Unconscious Venus is in gate 44, line 2. The corresponding line colors your inner narrative. The lines below may offer you some insight into ways you may require a little reparenting as they are all associated with early needs, as well as universal themes. You may find ways they are literally imprinted into your tissues. You would read the line of your Gate here and the line associated with your Gate.

Line 1

Key characteristics: seeking certainty and understanding of our place in the world

Cultivate: inner security, natural rhythm + routine (with freedom to shift), seasonal support

Be mindful: of the need for certainty getting in your way, being a victim to details, fearing the unknown, seeking safety in other

Line 2

Key characteristics: seeking freedom

Cultivate: the qualities you need to feel free, freedom of exploration + expression, find your wild, freedom as an inner state not dependent on your outer circumstances

Be mindful: of creating healthy boundaries, finding the balance between freedom + the connection/intimacy you desire in your relationships

Line 3

Key characteristics: pleasure

Cultivate: pleasure as appreciation of life rather than distraction from, adventure, mutability, joy, make the most of every day, intimate understanding of the other

Be mindful: of pessimism, over-seriousness, perspectives that don’t serve you - like judging yourself for missteps or victim mentality, of running rather than choosing to commit to love

Line 4

Key characteristics: a need to belong

Cultivate: resonant + nourishing community and network, an open heart, home as an inside job, softening your heart + belly

Be mindful: requiring your partner to fulfill all your needs, seeking home outside yourself

Line 5

Key characteristics: role models

Cultivate: resonant mentor + mentee relationships, using your ample power for good (the greater good), the highest vibration of your Gate

Be mindful: of unhealthy influence, of seeking power over love

Line 6

Key characteristics: vision + patience

Cultivate: hold fast to your dreams and trust in right timing

Be mindful: of taking it personally when you feel misunderstood, of not trusting you hold the answers

*Regardless of what Line you carry in your definition, you will most likely find wisdom in each of these aspects. Think of them as petals on the same flower. They all vary but they are part of the whole. Each one can offer you perspective + insight into the qualities we want to lean into (and out of).

THE HOUSE

If you want to know the House of your Unconscious Design you can get a membership to Genetic Matrix. This is the software I use. Or you can grab a snapshot here of all of your Houses.

Prompts

• Look at your relationships. What might they be here to teach you in relation to these energies?

• Where might you be projecting your hurt onto another? Blaming others for the problem(s)? Where do you need to take responsibility?

• Meditate on these energies. Sit and breathe. Let it roll around in your mind like a marble.

• Get creative. Write a story or poem, collage, sing, choreograph, dance, cook, daydream, walk in nature, sit with the trees, start a convo, paint, create from this energetic space.

• In what ways do you allow your own wounding to shut you down, to create isolation?

• What is your relationship to Mother energy? To your own mother? To the archetypes of the universal Mother? What other archetypes, Goddesses, heroes or mythological figures, etc.. (particularly around the theme of homecoming) might relate to this energy for you, offer you a more resonant understanding? What cultural symbols are you drawn to?

• Meditate on your core wounding. Can you physically locate it in your body? What does it feel like? What is its shape? Color? What happens when you bring awareness there? Breath?

• It is said that this energy is imprinted in the 7 year cycle of the first 7 years (which are MOST impactful). If you’d like you can look back and recall what was going on then or how this theme may have been present or introduced around that time especially in your physical environment and how you were nurtured.

• How might the expression of this archetype + opening your heart to unconditional love and acceptance be connected to your Incarnation Cross (modules 1-4)?

  
  

ADDITIONAL support

• The Solar Plexus - a soft belly to cultivate expansion

• Finding equilibrium and healthy detachment from both our sadness + our joy, allowing the emotional waves to move through, a true acceptance and honoring of what is.

• Laughter as medicine, as a vehicle to expand consciousness.

• Heart Toolbox

• We can drop our defenses while still maintaining healthy energetic boundaries.

• Feelings can get more intense before unwinding as we bring our awareness and attention to them. Support + resource yourself, find resonant allies + practices when and where needed. Be patient and gentle with yourself as you move through, rise up, plunge down and rise again through your own emotional ripples + waves. Flow with them.

• Dance + bring more play to your life!! Do what brings you joy.

• Invite softness into every corner of your being.

PRACTICE

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• Read over this and your gates info multiple times, contemplate the information here and there. What does it mean to you? How does the Shadow show up in your life? The gifts? How can you hold space for the highest vibration?

• Get clear on your Shadows here through the tools in Cultivate Awareness in the Shadow module. 

• Explore other potential Shadows in the center where this gate stems from in Shadow in Your Definition. 

• Bring them through Decondition + Rewire, EFT and/or through addiction meditation here.

• What other energetics and support are specific to your gate? What chakra would this energy be associated with? What energetic body? Do you need support with Boundaries? Seek the other ways you can align and nourish.

• Know that this is ongoing exploration that will serve you again and again. You’re not meant to figure it all out right now. Sit with it, ponder, marinate, ask questions, notice how it shows up in your life, put it down, come back to it, dig deeper, peel back another layer. These elements will continue to unfold if you allow them. Keep moving toward the gift and high vibrations of the energy.

• Take good care of yourself. Take a break, take a nap, take a holiday, take a day in nature.

ADDITIONAL READING

• Any stories around heroes, goddesses, cultures, myths, archetypes, etc.. that connect you to this journey of coming home.