They say the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago and the second best time to plant a tree is now.

This is true for learning to relate with Venus Time and attuning to Venus' cycles, as well.

The excellent thing about astrology—especially when practiced relationally and magically—is that we play with Time itself and can change how we relate with the past based on what we know now.

So those last twenty years you didn't know about Venus' cycles? She was still there, still dancing, still changing, and we were changing along with her, and by learning to live on Venus Time, we can (if we want to) go back and find how she was there with us, too.

When prompted to explain why this offering is important, I have a hard time doing so with specificity since to me, Venus is a way of life. Venus is my way of life.

I've been living on Venus time and offering related guidance for so long and welcomed so many folks into this way of living that I've witnessed this work have such a vast array of impacts on people's real lives.

Relating with Venus is about noticing, willingness, small gestures of attention, giving and reciprocity. It can be so casual (it can also be so serious, my life a case in point lol). While humans take up Venus and project all kinds of stuff—positive and negative, harmful and generative—onto “her”, the way I initiate folks into relating with Venus is not in any didactic this-is-what-it-has-to-look-like way, because relating with Venus is so specific to each of us.

And that's why the path to Venus looks different for everyone, and different at different times even for the most devoted among us. Venus' cycles are about difference and change. Your relationship with Venus will look very different from mine, and mine will look different in two decades than it did two decades ago, but her cycles repeat like a heartbeat, and that simultaneous liveliness, specificity, and reliability are the beauty of this work for me.

I love tracking Venus' cycle and inviting folks into tracking her along with me, as a small gesture of attention toward connection, toward relationship, toward the Other, toward more, toward the depths, toward the moment, toward Life. 

No big steps or giant changes or huge commitments needed, just a small allowing in, a glance toward the possibility of connection and change. Her cycles can seem really complicated, and certainly you can make them complicated if you want, but learning and attuning to Venus' cycles is just learning Venus Time. Like any new calendar or operating system, Venus Time becomes an overlay on whatever you already practice.

And once you know, you know. 

The big changes do come—I've converted many Venus-skeptics in my many years singing her praises—but you can start small. 

You can start with Venus Cycles 101.

A one hour and eleven minutes initiatory recorded talk, designed for clarity and brevity, offering you everything you need to track and relate with Venus' cycles—this gorgeous and powerful triangulated dance between her, the Sun, and all of us here on Earth. 

Venus' cycles and transits like Venus retrogrades are collective experiences, even if we relate to them so uniquely based on our own timing and lived experience.

We all have access to Venus Time, and through embodying this way of living, contribute more connection, relational orientation, and belonging to worlds needing them most right now.