Venus Retrograde Brings Important Review And Rehash of The Past, To Help You Open To Your Highest In Love. Will It Be Easy? Not Quite… But She “Promises” It Will Be Worth It.
Welcome into a brand new week in the cosmic energies!
Highlights this week include:
Cancer New Moon pushes for a new beginning, plus, both Venus and Chiron Retrogrades begin, bringing review and recalibration in love.
Discover more below about what Venus Retrograde will bring to the Twin Flame connection…!
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Cancer New Moon, Venus Retrograde
We begin the week with a powerful New Moon in Cancer, which also signals themes for the Venus Retrograde period ahead (from the end of this week until September).
Cancer is the sign of the “mother”, family, the moon, emotions, the feminine, nurturing and creativity – and the New Moon in Cancer signals a restart in all of these areas.
It tends to bring a focus on the past and emotions, and right now we’re being asked to stop holding ON to what has hurt us, above all.
To be willing to move forward, no matter what – for our own sake.
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Is Your Heart Open?
The New Moon also carries important themes for the Venus retrograde period beginning Saturday, and for the next 1.5 months.
These two transits speak loudly about the HEART, and above all the heart chakra.
Because understandably, so many of us have shut our hearts in self defense after being hurt. But this only keeps things stuck and blocked.
And as Twin Flames, it’s downright essential to open our hearts again and heal old wounds so we can be open to divine love!
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Unconditional Love
In order for the Twin Flame connection to open in unconditional love and be able to enter into union…
The heart chakra must function healthily and energy must be able to move freely through our system.
When there are blocks and wounds in the heart, the Twin Flame connection becomes restricted.
(Learn more here in the Chakra Assessment for Twin Flames)
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Twin Flame “Test”
If you want to know what the situation is with the heart connection between your Twin and yourself, here is a simple exercise:
Take a moment to close your eyes and relax, then visualize you and your Twin Flame moving to embrace each other. As you embrace, feel how your hearts react to each other.
What you’ll notice is this: When there’s a block you’ll feel a deflection, or a push-back, or as if there’s an invisible wall between the Twins, and there’s a distinct feeling of the heart being shut.
If you feel this, it means there’s work to do to heal and be able to open again.
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Getting Clear On Your Subconscious Fears
Get out a piece of paper and begin writing down everything you’re worried about or afraid of in terms of love and relationships.
Let it stream out onto the page – don’t edit yourself. You might be surprised by what comes up, but allow it to.
It’s better you know than that it swims around in your unconscious mind under the surface – sabotaging without you knowing.
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Feminine Healing
With Venus retrograde also coming up Saturday 22nd July, Spirit shows an ongoing theme for the Divine Feminine the next few weeks to deal with and balance – to move away from past habits and attachments in order to be fully open to love.
Ultimately, for the collective we are dealing with a purification of old separation based feminine/female shadow templating, to open to higher energies.
For love relationships, we’re dealing with a detoxification of what has kept us from feeling able to fully open up – to LOVE above all.
Any old emotional wound – often relating to the collective, to groups who may have rejected us in the past – or fear of losing face are highlighted.
Because when we fear rejection or are worried that our Twin will “run”, we unwittingly block out love.
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Venus Retrograde Meaning
Venus is not a planet that often goes retrograde, and when she does, it signals that a period of karmic rebalancing within relationships is due. Beliefs and patterns need to be reevaluated and past situations to be resolved once and for all.
We often re-encounter exes or phantoms of past situations, as the Universe pushes us to heal anything that has been running on “autopilot” and causing negativity in our Twin Flame connection.
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Re-Experiencing Hurt?
Unconditional love is about being fully seen for who we are at our most vulnerable, and to be loved and love anyway.
So if it feels like all your old insecurities are threatening to come out in the open during Venus Retrograde, there’s a reason for it.
When you put down your old “stories” and fears – set the baggage aside – you can open up to love and be loved on a whole new level.
This is why all the old “baggage”, all the old hurts and fears begin to come up when you meet your Twin Flame – because you and your mirror soul trigger each other to begin releasing everything that isn’t love.
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Where Love Lives
If this Venus retrograde gets heavy – which it will for many, especially as it starts conjunct Lilith the shadow feminine…
I want you to know that no matter what’s happened before or what pain you’ve experienced, things really can change for the better! I’ve seen it happen time and time again.
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Leo Season Starts
Significantly, Venus goes retrograde conjunct Lilith, in Leo, on the same day that the Sun enters this sign. As a fire sign, Leo is aligned with strong individuality and can veer into “ego” battles.
Deep down, it’s about pushing us to heal and clear the age-old separation programming of the 3D historical human society.
In order to open to true unity and love based in harmony and mutual appreciation.
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Projecting?
Keep an eye on yourself, to make sure that you’re not unconsciously pushing ego perceptions and conflict into your connection.
Because as Twin Flames, your intention is powerful in projecting onto your counterpart.
If you’re projecting and focusing on them as a runner, hopelessly stuck in ego or other negativity – you are unfortunately reinforcing those very things.
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Rekindling Old Flames
As we’ve discussed before, perceptions of difference and separation are one of the core blocks to Twin pairs coming together.
I’m not going to gloss over this to make you feel good, or dramatize it, as you’ll see many places.
Venus retrograde is often very unpleasant – because it’s bringing us face to face with our wounds, distortions and shadows.
BUT it’s for our own good. It’s meant to help us move higher.
To be aligned with TRUE unconditional love and harmony. To be able to have that blissful experience of divine union in our physical lives, not just as a dream.
And to get there, the universe is now telling us, it’s time to go through a “spring clean” of our inner world and system.
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Focus On Creativity
From another perspective, if you’re a creative, this period can be dealing with your creative work and expression in a major way – as Venus is the ruler of art and beauty also.
If this is the case for you, revisiting past unfinished projects, or tidying up something from the past, including clearing old creative blocks, is key.
At its highest, Leo is the home of expression, creativity and generosity…
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Your Own #1?
So a positive theme you can use this Venus retrograde – until August 22nd when Virgo season starts – is to express yourself, and to be your OWN number one!
You may be surprised at how it transmutes and alchemizes your connection if you allow yourSELF to be your cheerleader, protector and admirer. To allow your own INNER polarity to show up for you.
What do I mean?
If you’re a female or feminine polarity Twin – let your own inner masculine be your fierce celebrator and protector!
Can you feel that? If you’re a male or masculine polarity Twin – let your inner feminine shower you with affection and love.
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The “Secret Twin Flame Tip”
Spirit shows us this can be a “magnificent” way to embody the highest version of powerful healing and transmutation this Venus retrograde.
Plus, the really amazing thing is, your inner polarity self IS your Twin.
So when you do this it’s really THEM you’re feeling, and you’re strengthening that part of them who wants to show up for you!
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The Start Of A Period Of Healing
These next few months of Venus retrograde can bring so much positive growth and transformation in your connection – or difficulty, depending on how you handle it.
My biggest recommendation is for you to show up for yourSELF!
Not only will it make sure you move forward more swiftly, but it will also show up harmony for you in the Twin Flame Mirror.
Because the way you feel about and treat yourself, becomes the energetic template your Twin is always responding to.
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Stepping Into Your Highest
I know this can be a daunting task to address and deal with on your own, however…
You are so powerful, and so worthy!
And I’m always holding space for you that you recognize it in yourself too x
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As always, I’m sending you love and light for your continued journey <3
Cassady x
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