The Writing, Astrology, and Magic of Pallas K. Augustine/WHEN THE WATERS COME: Venus Retrograde in Pisces & Aries 2025 Workbook/Playbook/Guidebook/Dreambook

The truth is like water.

When absent, you can feel it.

You thirst for it. Your throat becomes parched. Fires kindle quicker.

When water does come, it saturates. It changes everything. It brings gravity and weight. It brings growth and movement.

Like truth, little can withstand a rising tide, rising ocean, deluge down the mountains, deluge through the concrete streets.

Venus in exile in Aries is the power of the rise.

Venus in exaltation in Pisces is the power of the deluge.

There is truth in both.

And both are in you.

Venus begins her retrograde journey in Aries on March 1st, taking you with her into the fierceness of your fieriest stars.

Venus ends her retrograde journey in Pisces on April 12th in the depths of longing in your deepest seas.

Between now and then, worlds will collide and separate. Connections will arrive and depart.

Your time in these places with Venus would be supported by a guide, by someone who has been on this ride for a while, who knows the terrain intimately, and has a few tricks and stories to keep with you on the way.

That's why I made...

WHEN THE WATERS COME: Venus Retrograde in Pisces & Aries 2025

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By popular demand, Pallas' new workbook for navigating Venus retrograde 2025 is here.

WHEN THE WATERS COME is unavailable as of June 1st 2025.

To contine your explorations with Venus through her 2025-26 phases, download Pallas' free Moon-Venus Cycle resource at the button below:

WHEN THE WATERS COME

is a 158-page guided digital journal PDF, including:

  • 50 pages of chart-based guided prompts, original writing, dates, and degrees to reflect and strategize on YOUR experience of Venus retrograde 2025 and Venus' longterm cycle in Aries-Pisces

  • 10 pages of original narrative "astro-drama" by Pallas, a second person journey through Venus' pre-retrograde time to support your attunement to all the cosmic players

  • 80 pages of guided journalling with near daily contemplations, transits, and prompts to support you through Venus' retrograde period

  • BONUS: my Moon-Venus Cycle 2024-25 with house topics quick-reference

  • AND a growing list of further resources and references (free and paid) from a community of practitioners to support your Venus journey.

Let's get through Venus' retrograde together with the support of presence, connection, separation, control, and care.

Instant access download WHEN THE WATERS COME

Feedback from fellow water-seekers

Susan

"When the Waters Come is beautiful: it is full of poetry, images, and imagination. It is also helpful: it brings you through a reflective review of past astrological signatures and then walks you through the Venus retrograde day by day. It has helped me stay grounded. I recommend it for anyone interested in astrology or for anyone looking for support to stay sane right now!"

Sue

"You know what I love about Pallas' offerings? From the very first sentence, they make you think - things you hadn't thought or heard of before, resources that make you want to read more, to explore and dance with new ideas. Pallas doesn't offer that many one on one consultations, so when you want to hear their voice, it's right there on the page, intelligent and thoughtful, encouraging you to explore your own chart, make discoveries about your past, present and future, to know more intimately your own precious life."

J.M.

"I wanted to reach out and thank you for this BEAUTIFUL offering of When the Waters Come. It's helped me approach this time thoughtfully, calmly, and well-informed, using the opportunity to go deep within and understand how the energies are affecting me and playing out in my life. It's a gift to have support in understanding the dynamics at play, and it's helped me deeply integrate lessons and shifts in patterns at a new level."

WHEN THE WATERS COME Venus Retrograde in Pisces & Aries 2025 is:

  • part workbook with the dates and degrees and prompts you know and love

  • part guidebook with writing about various aspects at play during the retrograde

  • part playbook with a foray into the forecast-based astro-drama I have been wanting to release since 2018

  • part dreambook which includes a guided journalling calendar supporting you through the actual retrograde period

Frequently asked questions

How much is the workbook?

For $27 USD, you receive instant access to download of both the Fillable/Interactive PDF and the Printable PDF files through your Podia "course" portal.

Who is this for?

WHEN THE WATERS COME will most support you if:

  • you are curious about balancing depth of knowledge of your own lived experience of the astrology with how the timing and transits flow in wider tidal currents through the world

  • you are committed or want to be more committed to reflective practices that create spaciousness and capacity to respond to life, relationships, and the important events and worlds around you

  • you are ready to actively relate with The Times rather than observe and react, ready to corral your own expression, attention, reflection, and discernment to maintain your critical perspective while cultivating more connective possibilities.

  • you are (or want to be) a journal-er, a transit tracker, a verbal processor, a writer or seeker interested in witnessing the microcosm/macrocosm and who appreciates guidance of folks willing to walk the path alongside you.

Technical know-how-wise, you should know your natal chart to the extent of saying "I have Venus in Libra in the sixth house" and be able to recognize that in a circle chart. If you don't know all your house meanings, a workbook like this is excellent practice as many of the prompts are planet, house, and sign based.

How will my files be delivered?

Upon purchase, you receive immediate access to download both the Fillable/Interactive PDF and the Printable PDF files through your Podia "course" portal. Bonus resources will be shared through the portal, as well, such as a growing list of references and offerings to support your Venus retrograde journey. If you participated in 2023's Where Is Your Heart? Venus retrograde workbook, you already have an account!

Are you offering sliding scale or sponsored copies?

This offering is priced with accessibility in mind already, considering how much depth of information and engagement WHEN THE WATERS COME offers. But if you value my work but are really struggling (precarious housing, no generational wealth, medical debt, etc), and especially if you are part of my transgender and/or immigrant kin currently under attack in the US, please use the coupon code SPONSOREDWTWC for 75% off. As well, the coupon code EXCHANGE offers 30% off for folks internationally for whom the exchange rate with USD is brutal. This will only work for a limited number of copies, and I will update this page when those copies run out. If you are reading this and would like to sponsor a copy yourself, please respond to one of my emails saying so. Thank you for respecting how I choose to make my work accessible.

Why do you always make astrology so political?

This is too big of a question for an FAQ, so I just want to share: if you don't want your astrology to consider fascism, the collective world's pain and passion, movements, material conditions, art and wellness' place in the current world, Lady Macbeth and other monarchs' downfalls, the harsh and beautiful aspects of living an attuned, relationally-oriented, magical life, this is NOT the Venus retrograde offering for you. I created this workbook / guidebook / playbook / dreambook with a balance of YES HOPE IS MEDICINAL and also BUT ALSO DANGEROUS and with the knowledge that FEAR is a guiding principle for a lot of folks right now, and it takes the soft animal of our body (ty Mary Oliver) to feel supported and connected to breathe out of so we can have a responsible astrological perspective. I believe this offering brings both.

I got your last Venus retrograde workbook(s). How is this one different?

Other than one intentionally repeated prompt exercise from Where Is Your Heart? Venus Retrograde in Leo 2023, this offering is completely new. It is less information and teaching heavy and more focused on your own creative, courageous attunement to our moment. While still containing technical know-how and important dates/degrees, there is no overall ephemeris appendices like last time, for example. There are less diagrams because I wanted to make it more printer friendly and less sensory stimulating. There IS a full 80+ page guided journal aspect, which is entirely new and based on my Moon-Venus Cycle Guides, but adapted to include the daily transits for Venus' 40-day retrograde period, nearly daily contemplation prompts, many related to the original astro-drama which is also a new feature.

WHEN THE WATERS COME: Venus Retrograde in Pisces & Aries 2025 Workbook/Playbook/Guidebook/Dreambook

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ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Pallas.

I'm your Venus-attuned writer astrologer guide.

Many of you already know me, but if you don’t, it’s relevant for you to know that I’ve been:

  • a professional consulting astrologer for eight years (a full Venus cycle!)

  • devotionally and magically tracking Venus’ cycles since 2015 and truly obsessed with them

  • tracking transits and planetary cycles relationally since Neptune entered Pisces in 2011

  • studying astrology on and off since a family friend first read my chart when I was a child

  • regularly creating astrological resources to aid in my personal and professional practices

  • author of The IC: An Astrology of Coming Home, a Kickstarter Project We Love

  • receiving requests from you for months to make a sequel to my Where Is Your Heart? Venus Retrograde in Leo 2023 and These Are Our Stories: Venus Retrograde in Capricorn 2021-22

I spend the majority of my time writing, reading, and communing with spirits of the Earth and Sky (especially our rescue pup Vesper who arrived during Venus' transit to my Pisces IC), to bring you deep, supportive resources to guide you through the beautiful agonizing mess we're living through together.

WHEN THE WATERS COME: Venus Retrograde in Pisces & Aries 2025 Workbook/Playbook/Guidebook/Dreambook

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