Retrograde Gate of Ascent
October 12, 2025: Venus meets with the moon in Scorpio
Venus is high in the evening sky, shining brightly as Evening Star, in Her retrograde phase.
The Gatekeeper Speaks
And the ultimate truth is revealing everything in order to perceive itself in its totality.
-A.H. Almaas, Love Unveiled
Metamorphosis
Sacred Warrior, who has journeyed the path of passionate purpose, embodying the power of the ancient ones, who are you now? At the end of this cycle, this journey of reclaiming more of your own soul’s Essence, who are you now?
We cycle, over and over, knowing that in my beginning is my ending and in my ending is my beginning.
In this period of retrograde, we pause, not jumping into the next journey before fully integrating this journey. Pause, savor, integrate. Allow the reclaiming of Self, of Essence, to fully permeate your cells, forever altering the knowing of who you are.
Inquiry Questions
Take some time to drop in, deepen into the quiet of your unfolding soul, and explore what is here now in your awareness, as this cycle completes. Go back to the beginning and remember.
Who were you then?
What have you experienced these past 20 months?
How has life challenged you?
What has been revealed to you?
What have you embodied more fully because of this journey?
Aries asks: “What is the Noble Cause worth fighting for?”
Capricorn asks: “Does it work? Is it practical?”
Sacred Warrior, who are you now?
With whom have you journeyed this cycle?
Ritual Space
Take some time to drop into ritual space as you receive the initiation of this gate. We step into liminal space, time out of time, in ritual space. We connect with the lineage of those who have watched the stars for millennia, receiving the gift of Venus's journey, aligning ourselves with the cycles that are already unfolding. We remember our nature as beings who cycle, change, transform. We remember how to receive knowing directly, rather than needing others to tell us what is so.
You may wish to create an altar, light a candle, and anoint yourself with oils. Sit with this gate, the quality of Essence that is being called forward. As you deepen in surrendering to receiving initiation, ask who would come to guide you in your journey with this quality of Essence? What of yourself do you offer in return? What is calling to be set down at this gate? What pattern, belief, way of being in this world, is challenged by this quality of Essence? What are you ready to release in order to deepen more fully in this journey?
What gift is revealed in the releasing of this pattern, belief, or way of being? What has more freedom to be itself in this release? You may see this directly, or may need to live with this initiation throughout the whole cycle and come back and answer this question before entering into the next gate. You may wish to draw cards to receive guidance in this way.
As you complete your experience in ritual space, take time to offer thanks and adoration to the archetype, to Venus, to your personal guide that arose for this journey, to your ancestors and lineage. Offer thanks to the land that holds and nourishes and grounds you. In the giving and receiving we remember our deep connectedness to all beings everywhere, throughout time and space.
