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Venus, the Decorator of Sacred Space : How Venus, the Decorator and Organizer of Rituals, teaches us about healing, peace, happiness, and power through Decan One of Taurus.

The content in this post is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote, which is taken from The PCOS Grimoire that I am currently writing! If this blog post piques your interest, you will be able to read more in The PCOS Grimoire, where I will go further in depth into these topics and more. While I am striving to create a book that anyone can read, the main focus is for those that suffer from PCOS (Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome).

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“Venus is desire and love. It indicates the mother and nurture. It makes priesthoods, school superintendencies, high offices with the right to wear a gold ring or a crown, cheerfulness, friendship, companionship, the acquisition of property, the purchase of ornaments, agreements on favorable terms, marriages, pure trades, fine voices, a taste for music, sweet singing, beauty, painting, mixing of colors both in embroidery, dyeing, and unguent making. Venus makes the inventors and masters of these crafts, as well as craftsmanship or trade, and work in emeralds, precious stones, and ivory. Within its terms and degrees in the zodiac, Venus causes men to be gold-spinners, gold workers, barbers, and people fond of cleanliness and toys. It bestows the office of supervisor of weights and measures, the standards of weights and measures, markets, factories, the giving and receiving <of gifts>, laughter, good cheer, ornamentation, and hunting in moist places. Venus gives benefits from royal women or from one’s own, and it brings very high rank when it operates in such affairs. Of the parts of the body, it rules the neck, the face, the lips, the sense of smell, the front parts from the feet to the head, the parts of intercourse; of the inner parts it rules the lungs. It is a recipient of support from others and of pleasure. Of materials it rules precious stones and fancy jewelry. Of fruits it rules the olive. It is of the night sect, white in color, very greasy in taste.” - Vettius Valens, Anthologies Book I

There is so much material here to sink our teeth into, but let’s focus on the keywords “priesthoods”, “sweet singing”, and “ornamentation”. Of the Major Arcana in the tarot, Taurus is associated with The Hierophant. In the dictionary, the definition of hierophant is: “a person, especially a priest, who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles.” How interesting it is that in mainstream Sun Sign Astrology, Taurus is associated with being “basic, slow, lazy” and having “no definitive qualities,” and yet, with all of the Astro-weather falling in the sign of Taurus currently, we are feeling a massive, very-much-not-boring, and inarguably greater spiritual shift collectively.

Read more here!