From First Fire to Final Water

Re-orienting from a Venus in Aries Cycle to a Venus in Pisces Cycle

Venus met the Sun closest to the Earth on March 22nd, 2025 at 02˚of Aries and opened up our current heroine’s journey. This meeting is the seed of the entire 19 month cycle. I created this graphic to show the key astronomical and astrological points in this Aries cycle.

For years I have been learning and teaching how to align with the energy of each cycle working with that initial meeting place - the Venus Star Cycle or “Venus Star Point” as Arielle Guthman calls it. This meeting occurs when Venus is “cazimi” meaning, “in the heart of the Sun.” It is a purely positive union with no shadow.

Venus is the the sister planet to Earth and considered a highly benevolent planet. She is the wishing star that brings us our heart’s desire. Her cycle is echoed in the Babylonian myth of Inanna and Greek story of Demeter and Persephone, and she is connected to most major Goddesses. The Sun is the center of our solar system bestowing heat, light and life upon Earth. Sun is the Source, the “son” of God that dies and is resurrected. Together these two planets are showing us a journey of life/birth, death/initiation and rebirth/resurrection.

The sign and degree of the union of Venus and the Sun that begins each cycle set the tone of the entire cycle. In syncing with Venus for 14 years, I have linked many events, both myself personally and with clients as well as collective themes to the sign opening the cycle.

I translate all of the astrology within the container of the 19 months because I hold the sacred feminine as central. Her movement from one 19 month cycle to the next traces a five pointed star in the sky over 8 years. So every 8 years Venus meets the Sun in the same sign, a few degrees backwards each time. It takes 108 years for her to move completely through a sign. So, this starting point is key in understanding and moving with her cycle.

Personally I was moving with the energetic invitation of this Venus in Aries cycle - initiating new starts, bold moves and pioneering undiscovered territory. Shortly before Venus and the Sun met in March, I accepted and invitation to bring Venus Wisdom to a farm and Venus-inspired Goddess ministry in Arkansas.

I sold most of my belongings and left the town in Northern California where I had lived for 27 years. My 20 year old daughter drove out with me in my van with our 3 cats, dog towing a trailer with my remaining belongings. 3 months later I moved to Taos, New Mexico to help start a women’s sanctuary and 3 months later I returned to California, furthest north in Mount Shasta to help an old friend revive her Montessori Farm School.

My bold moves into unknown territory were not stabilizing and I was depleted financially and physically. In Mount Shasta I initially stayed in a bell tent on land next to my friend’s rental where the farm school had operated before they lost their dome classroom due to a neighbor reporting it to the county.

We got up early and watched Venus appear over Mount Shasta and made wishes for our vision to come together. We had met in Montessori teacher training 14 year prior and seeded this vision of an innovative, nature based school as a hub for unlearning the ways of the institutionalized schools of the dominator paradigm and remembering and sharing the skills of our ancestors.

The house she was renting was spacious and she had converted the upstairs into the classroom in hopes of reviving the school. The herd of goats that were the heart of the farm school lived in a huge barn with a half acre enclosure to frolic. The Shasta River was only a short walk away. The vision was bright and it all seemed so idyllic but the obstacles turned out to be thicker and darker than I could have imagined.

Many possibilities were considered in those first two months but the bottom line was that she and her family had to vacate the house and the goats had to move pronto. A woman my friend knew offered to host the goats on her family’s land. She also dreamed of a growing community and creating a new paradigm. We thought the farm school would blossom there but it did not.

Just as Venus was slipping into the Underworld, I moved into a trailer on that land to help care for the goats. Every doe was pregnant and they started giving birth in early December, in the bitter cold and snow, a couple days after I turned 55. For my solar return, I helped to bring 18 baby goats into the world and it was an incredible experience of birth, as well as death.

As the winter deepened and everyone recovered from the stresses of kidding, it became clear that the school vision was not a match for this land and owner. Living in the tension of that disconnect after all the transition I had been through was next level Underworld tenderizing. At Solstice, I put out a strong prayer for direction, for resources and for guidance in my next steps. And oddly enough that prayer was answered via YouTube as I found five creators who were sharing the exact wisdom that I needed to connect with to sustain my flame of hope and devotion.

One of those creators, a beautiful, fierce, analytical woman, who had studied and decoded many of the ancient texts, helped me to understand that the Sidereal Zodiac, the original zodiac used by the first Babylonian astrologers was truly more accurate. Of course, I had heard this before and I have been a bit annoyed when Vedic astrologers would announce that the Sun was not really in this this sign, but this other one and we should just look at the constellations.

Studying Tropical astrology, the system used in the west, for over 30 years, I had come to the conclusion that both systems worked and that each had a different purpose. Her passion and clarity relieved me of that notion. Plus, her reflections that this is the system that the elites use to dominate the world resonated strongly. If we want to study our astrology codes to throw off the shackles of our programming, using the positions of the original astrology fits.

I started to re-orient to my own astrology chart to test the differences. Holy wow. Everything clicked. It reminded me of when I was 16 years old and I got glasses. I didn’t have terrible vision so I didn’t know what I was missing. When I put on glasses for the first time I was shocked that I could see the leaves on the trees in detail. In my Sidereal astrology, all the same signs were there but expressed through different planets. It made so much more sense.

When I arrived in Mount Shasta I gave my friend her first astrology reading and introduced her to her Venus Design through Tropical astrology. Observing her, I couldn’t understand how she could be a Virgo rising. Our rising shows our “birth”, how we walk into a room and she entered a room with exuberance, expression and passion. Not Virgo qualities. In Sidereal, she shifted to a Leo rising and that made so much more sense. There was that clarity again.

Since then, I have done sessions with clients re-orienting their astrology to their Sidereal chart and the illumination continues. My daughter said she never felt like a Taurus Sun. Now, she’s an Aries Sun and oh yes, she is! I’m not writing this to convince anyone to change but I am giving you the context for why I shifted. This was the gold in one of the darkest Underworld Phases that I can remember.

Of course I’ve received a lot of insight working with Tropical astrology but I will be using Sidereal going forward. Because our Venus energy is so important to cultivate as those qualities bring us closer to our soul self, our true nature, our eternal spirit, I want to be sharing the most accurate sign. I don’t see all that I learned through Tropical as wrong. But I believe it’s critically important to connect with the qualities of our Venus and become radiant in their expression, as this is what helps to awaken our feminine alchemy, our capacity as women to build worlds. For this, I want to be sure we are contemplating our most accurate Venus sign.

We are the ones who will re-dream this world with mother hearts who revere life, protect innocence and value creativity, art and harmony. No healthy mother would create this kind of world. The Kali Yuga is over and it is time for us to awaken and remember our abilities as worldbuilders.

I will go deeper into the meaning of the changes of this Venus in Aries cycle which is a Venus in Pisces cycle in Sidereal in Part 2. This is a very different energetic invitation. This cycle opened at 07˚ Pisces in the Sidereal Zodiac. All of the Venus Star Points in our 8 pointed star change. And this is good news for our feminine power.

Here is a revised graphic showing the new (Sidereal) signs of our 5 pointed star. I am starting to work on the next Venus Cycle map for our next cycle that opens in October. Please subscribe if you have not yet to support this work and my regeneration after this year of attempting new starts in a cycle that is about endings, dissolution and relying upon faith in the original Creator.

I am offering a 13 percent discount on annual subscriptions for groups of 5 who join together. It’s more fun to sync with friends and the power of 5 is something that we will be exploring more in depth in this space. Comment or message me for that link.
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The Venus Star Cycle starting points in the Sidereal Zodiac that I am using now.

This is where the Venus Star Cycles begin in Tropical and the graphic that I was using before. It’s a whole new world of meaning and I’m excited to share more.

Got questions? Feel free to ask them or bring them to our next Venus Wisdom gathering for paid subscribers on June 10th at 11 am Pacific. Replay available if you can’t make it live. Hope you will join us.