Yeah, I’m over on flipflop, low key creepin’ … still not a fan.
We are now at that point, where I’m gathering enough “stranger” interest on Substack that I can speak to an audience outside of the 12 people I originally set up this blog for. Whoohooo. That’s phucking progress #selfhighfive
Hello friends and fellows of Substack, hoping this moment finds you in good form.
I’ve just wrapped up the first 2 weeks of summer holidays with my kids, inclusive birthday activities. As Cancer Season comes to a close, I’m also happy to officially close off a sabbatical.
It wasn’t really a sabbatical, more like time off to take care of myself, my children, and no longer having to care for anyone else. A worthy investment to treat the symptoms of hyper-capitalism. I shall share more about such fables here soon.
For now… Hot from the Cosmos
DID YOU KNOW: Pictured here is the orbit Venus makes every 8 years. Inside the 5-pointed star pictured in the middle, are 5 curved loops which represent her retrograde periods. Venus only goes retrograde in these following 5 signs: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, and Capricorn.
One burning topic in July’s Astro is the current transit of Venus in Retrograde.
Venus is named after the Roman Goddess of love. The energy in astrology symbolises harmonious relationships, sensuality, value and abundance.
When a planet goes retrograde, the illusion from Earth’s perspective is the planet is spinning backwards. Retrogrades slow, stall or block areas in your life that may need realignment. Often, past emotions, events, wounds can resurface - in the form of people, or through vivid memories or dreams.
Venus retrograde in Leo ♌️ 22 July - 3 Sept 2023 challenges our ego and reactivity. A time to observe while rethinking core values to live by. Repressed emotions may surface, and haunts from the past making a dramatic entrance is par for retrograding Venus in Leo.
Venus in direct order, represents harmony and balance, so we expect a bit of disruption within our personal relationships and social contracts during a Venus retrograde. We may collectively witness exposing stories of tales from the upper elite as people continue to call out condemning behaviours that tend to keep us repeating unhealthy patterns.
Take these coming weeks as a moment to realign and heal, rebrand, and ultimately evolve.
More over Venus…
Mythologically, Venus embodies art, creation, aesthetic. Pleasure for pleasure's sake.
When Venus stations retrograde (every 18 months or so), it is an opportunity to reflect on our pleasures and care. Moreover, this specific transit yields a great opportunity to focus on non-monetarily productive creations and resources we have denied ourselves. SHARE YOUR ART!
Where, or what are your pleasure points in life?
Signs feeling this transit:
😑 Leo placements: ‘Big Three’ or personal planets.
🥴 Fixed signs: ♉️ ♌️ ♏️ ♒️
🫠 Aquarius Rising
We look to our Rising (Ascendant) signs for corresponding theme for predictive measures. These themes magnified in coming weeks.
Wanna learn more about what your own astrological placements say about you?
Excuse me… have you joined Substack yet?
As an impacted Leo Rising, I’m laying low mostly during this period, enjoying the remaining period of European summer hols. Rebranding is a strongly used label I have adopted during this period.
Yes, I have now transformed into that friend telling all my friends about the joys of this platform. Slowly folks are gathering interest and finding the worth. Mostly, I’m loosing friends…
For me personally, am finding the realms of Substack to be super helpful as slowly the platform replaces my need for popular social media apps. Offering a curated virtual space, where global news I receive immediately from the author, instead of the corporation behind publishing. Ad free, and have yet to experience shaming or hate speech. Neat.
Originally I used Substack for selfish reasons, while building a platform to write about an astrologic-infused yogic lifestyle. With limited clients and while remaining on unemployment benefits, I slowly reduced my payments from the government while I launched a business.
Private instruction and mentoring is what I currently offer, while preferring word-of-mouth recommendations as clientele. A small business model, where the aim to reach the masses is via my writings with my teachings. Website to follow shortly, and more selfish promotional stuff that I have to get through. Thank you for hanging with me thus far.
This space will also host a personal backstory, told in tales of the past with learnings alchemized. Hence the pre announcement(s) on paywalling my posts. Some characters have been modified and names changed, though the stories remain authentic. All rights reserved and permissions in tack.
Subscribers, please ensure your settings are adjusted not to be email spammed with an over abundance of posts.
Drink the kool-aid!
With notability of above, I’d like to end with joining Substack, you own your content and can monetise from what you share. Join Substack TODAY! Alllllll the cool people are here.
Btw, I’m not being paid or asked to promote Substack, I’m just really satisfied 🤌
Namaste xx
Audra
Cosmic Report: Venus Retrograding in Leo and what that means personally, or collectively.