Venus in the Shadows
The Shadow Before the Storm: Entering Venus’s Underworld Journey The First Crack in the Mirror
This is the first of a series of posts where I, a Venusian Oracle, invite you to come on an alchemical journey with me in real time. Together we will enter a play in 3 Acts:
The First Act: The Descent – Stripping Away the Illusions
The Second Act: The Underworld – The Alchemical Death & Surrender
The Third Act: The Resurrection – Becoming Magnetic
It is not just I who will be experiencing this journey; it is the entire collective for Venus lives in each and every one of us. I invite you to become more intentional on this journey and more self aware to enable you to reap the delicious fruits available to us all when Venus is finally resurrected. Therein lies the magic: the more intentional, more self aware and more conscious of the alchemical stages we become, the more we will be able to manifest a richer, more aligned, more vibrant resurrection.
Venus will be going retrograde from 1st March to 13 April. She has already entered her Shadow Phase which is what this blogpost is about.
Venus, the celestial weaver of love, beauty, and wealth, is entering her shadow phase—the hush before the unraveling. This is the moment where the first crack in the mirror appears, a fracture in the illusion, whispering that a reckoning is near. It is a ripple in the fabric of your reality, a subtle, spectral shift—a prelude to a transformation already in motion.
Venus retrograde is not merely an astrological transit; it is an alchemical descent, an invitation to shed the old skin of love, worth, and attraction. She strips away the façade, tests the marrow of your desires, and lures you deeper—into the velvet darkness of your own becoming. This is no passive drift through time; it is a sacred pilgrimage into the underworld of the soul.
And it begins now.
What is the Shadow Phase?
The shadow phase is the whisper before the wail, the twilight before the fall. This is the terrain Venus will retrace, a liminal space brimming with echoes of what must be revisited. It is the moment before the storm, when the air stills and your spirit senses an oncoming shift, though its form remains unseen.
What You Might Be Feeling Right Now:
A sudden hunger for something nameless, yet familiar
The reappearance of ghosts—lovers, wounds, forgotten dreams
A slow-burning dissatisfaction, a knowing that something must shift
A feeling of being on the threshold of revelation, standing at the portal’s edge
In other words, Venus is summoning you. Luring you into her realm of her desires. What does she desire? She desires her Celestial Empress status to be unlocked through you. Nothing less. Nothing more.
An Invitation to the Alchemical Journey
Over the coming weeks, we will traverse Venus’s 20 Stages of Alchemy, weaving together Tarot, astrology, and deep mysticism to guide you through her labyrinth. Each post will unveil a new passage in the underworld to anchor you into this sacred unfolding, for it is indeed nothing short of sacred.
Venus retrograde phases are deep initiatic journeys. You are on a hero’s journey and you shall not return as the same person who left for the unknown. You are Persephone meeting Hades for the first time and learning what it means to be in the underworld in the company of death - neither dead nor alive but in a limbo, a liminal space between stages of becoming.
What’s Coming Next?
In the coming weeks, I will explore the 20 alchemical stages of alchemy Venus will be going through. These stages are the blueprint of transformation in general but we will be exploring them through the lens of following Venus on her alchemical journey since we will all be experiencing it together.
🔮 Blog 1: The First Crack in the Mirror – The realisation that the old world is fading.
🔥 Blog 2: The Fire of Desire – What burns within you, and what must be turned to ash.
💔 Blog 3: Why Do You Chase? – The unraveling of attraction, power, and illusion.
The veil is thinning. The descent has begun.
If You Need Support During This Phase:
It is normal to be needing support during this phase. In fact, I would argue it is necessary because each transformational journey we go through and overcome, we activate a whole new level of power and ability to manifest the reality we desire. These transformational cycles enable us to heal, to alchemise, to transmute and transcend the lower vibrational energies that keep us trapped in a reality of unconscious manifestation. Because here is the ultimate truth: You are always manifesting, consciously AND unconsciously. Your outer world is a direct reflection of your inner world. If you would like to change your reality, then you must transmute the lingering shadows that are stopping you from completely embodying the magical core of who you are.
I welcome you to come work with me through this phase. Together we will walk through this portal. A portal I know so well and would be happy to guide you through it, stage by stage, until we reveal the unapologetic and shame-free version of who you are.
Come, let’s walk through this portal together.
