{"title":"Venus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVenus is the great beloved.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eMythology \u0026amp; Tradition\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is beauty made conscious of itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe force that draws things together. That makes the world want to be seen, touched, and known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Romans called her Venus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenus was born of sea foam, rising from the waters already whole. Goddess of love, beauty, desire, and the arts. She does not chase. She attracts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Greeks knew her as Aphrodite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Her power unsettled even the other gods. Homer writes of her laughter, her golden light, the way she moves through the world and everything turns toward her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Vedic tradition, she is Shukra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe planet of refinement, pleasure, and the capacity to recognize beauty in all its forms. Shukra governs the arts, sensuality, and the wisdom that comes through the body's knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Mesopotamian tradition, she was Inanna\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Queen of Heaven and Earth, who descended into the underworld and returned transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClarissa Pinkola Estés, in \u003cem\u003eWomen Who Run With the Wolves\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), traces this descent pattern through myth and story as the soul's necessary journey into depth before it can rise again into full creative power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAstrology\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn astrology, Venus rules Taurus and Libra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Taurus, she is sensory and grounded, the pleasure of the body, the beauty of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Libra, she is relational and aesthetic, the search for harmony, balance, and the perfect form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is exalted in Pisces, where love becomes boundless and devotional. She governs what we value, what we find beautiful, and how we give and receive love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eTarot\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Empress (III)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Empress represents Venus in her fullest expression. Abundance, fertility, sensory richness, and the creative force of the feminine principle in full bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRachel Pollack, in \u003cem\u003eSeventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e (1980), describes The Empress as the great mother of the natural world, the one who reminds us that life is meant to be lived with pleasure and presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Star (XVII)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenus is the morning and evening star.  The light that appears at the threshold of day and night, offering hope, beauty, and the quiet promise of renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo of Cups\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSignifying the sacred exchange of love. The moment two beings recognize each other and choose to meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStones of Venus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarry her warmth and her draw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are rose-toned, green, and luminous, stones of the heart, of beauty, of the body's wisdom. They open what has closed. They soften what has hardened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo work with a Venus stone is to remember that you are worthy of love exactly as you are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese stones carry the energy of Venus, for love, beauty, self-worth, and the deep, embodied pleasure of being alive.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/intustones.com\/collections\/venus.oembed","provider":"Intu Stones","version":"1.0","type":"link"}