How To Invoke Venus: 8 Venus Rituals To Worship The Divine Feminine Within
The planet Venus represents the goddess of love and all things sensuality, embodiment, beauty, and fertility. In astrology, Venus is associated with the energy of attraction, desire, and pleasure. Invoking Venus can help us connect with our inner goddess and cultivate self-love, creativity, and sensuality.
Many Venus rituals help you tap deeply into your divine feminine energy. Working with Venus is a beautiful way to nurture your relationship with yourself, increase self-acceptance, and cultivate self-love.
What is the Divine Feminine?
The divine feminine is a spiritual concept that refers to the feminine energy and qualities of the divine or higher power. It is an archetype representing the feminine aspects of creation, including intuition, nurturing, compassion, creativity, and love.
We associate Venus with the Roman goddess of love. But, there are iterations of the divine feminine archetype in many spiritual traditions and cultures like Isis, Inanna, Aphrodite, Mother Mary, Kuan Yin, and Lakshmi.
These goddesses and deities embody the qualities of the divine feminine and serve as role models for spiritual seekers who wish to connect with their inner divine feminine energy.
Some of the earliest prehistoric artworks were Venus figurines, dating back to the Upper Paleolithic period between 40,0000-30,000 BC. Although the original cultural meaning is unknown, these figures depicting voluptuous female bodies were thought to be used in rituals and were religiously worshipped.
How the divine feminine relates to the divine masculine
The divine feminine is not limited to women but is available to all genders. It is a force that exists within all of us, regardless of gender, and can be accessed through meditation, prayer, or ritual practices. Feminine energy can be considered yin or lunar energy, which opposes masculine or yang energy.
In a world that often emphasizes the masculine traits of productivity, ambition, and achieving tangible goals, it encourages us to connect with our intuition and embrace the process without using force to "make things happen. The Divine Feminine is a much-needed reminder of the importance of balance and harmony.
If the masculine is like an accelerator that actively pursues, the feminine would be a magnet—sitting back and drawing her desires towards her. Channeling Venusian energy can be incredibly empowering to tap into your divine feminine, cultivate more self-love, and have a deeper connection with your body.
There are so many divine feminine rituals: it can be as simple as wearing gold jewelry, cooking yourself a nourishing meal where you savor every bite, or dancing around in your underwear to your favorite song.
We could all benefit from slowing down (especially during retrogrades) and being more present in every moment, allowing us to tap into our senses and feel more pleasure.
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Qualities of the Venus
Compassion: Feel empathy and understanding for others and act with kindness and love.
Nurturing: Providing support, guidance, and protection to those around us.
Creativity: Our imagination, intuition, and inner wisdom bring new ideas, beauty, and inspiration.
Intuition: Tune into our inner guidance and trust our instincts and inner knowing.
Sensuality: Connecting with our physical bodies and experiencing pleasure and joy through our senses.
Collaboration: Working together to create a better world for all.
Emotional intelligence: Be aware of and manage our own emotions and connect with and understand the feelings of others.
How To Work With Venus
Worshiping Venus is a powerful way to connect with the energy of love, beauty, and harmony. Invoking Venus's energy can help you manifest your desires, improve your relationships, and bring more love and beauty into your life.
When working with Venus, first determine what it is you want to achieve. For example, you may want to attract more love into your life or improve your existing relationships.
The day of Friday is also represented by the planet of love and beauty. It's no coincidence that, as the song says, Friday is the day we're in love. So as you enter the weekend, allow the Venusian charm to bring simple pleasures into your life by performing Friday Venus rituals.
Here are 8 divine feminine ritual practices to help you channel your feminine energy. Of course, you can intuitively customize these and make them your own.
Create a Venus Altar
Any dedicated space, whether a bedside table or tucked-away corner, can be made into a Venus altar. Temples have been dedicated to Venus archetypes for eons, so making your own allows you to tap into this sacred lineage. You can decorate it with whatever you feel represents Venus'Venus' energy.
Some typical decorations and Venus offerings include rose quartz crystals, candles, pearls, chocolate, milk, honey, red wine, flowers (rose petals especially), and sea shells. It all comes down to the power of intention, so make it your own! Your Venus altar can be a meditation space to connect to your inner Venus.
It could also be a space where you create rituals to attract love, cultivate more self-love, or set intentions around the new and full moon. If nothing else, it will serve as a simple reminder whenever you look at it to pause and ground back into Venus.
This binaural soundtrack is meant to cleanse the heart chakra, which you could play around your Venus altar. In Kundalini yoga, the Adi Shakti mantra translates to "First Power" and connects us to Venus and sacred Shakti energy.
Chanting this mantra can help you tune into the Divine Mother's frequency, reminding you of your innate feminine power. I love to sing along to my favorite Adi Shakti track whenever I need Venus's energy.
Create a Divine Venus charm
Venus is the goddess of love, so it's the perfect time to create a divine venus charm to attract a partner or strengthen an existing relationship. Choose a crystal that resonates with love, such as rose quartz or rhodonite, and hold it in your hand.
Visualize your intention for love and charge the crystal with your energy. Keep the crystal with you, or place it on your Venus altar.
BREAST MASSAGE
As a traditional Ayurvedic practice and used in Tantric traditions, breast massages are incredibly beneficial for your health and feel nurturing and replenishing. In addition, it is a way to give back to yourself, honor your body, and show appreciation.
Some benefits include releasing toxins from the body by stimulating lymphatic drainage, decreasing stress levels, and decreasing the appearance of stretch marks.
But, maybe the most exciting of all is that you can apparently orgasm through your breasts, with studies showing the same areas of the brain lighting up with nipple and clitoral stimulation. There is no wrong way to give yourself a breast massage, although it is recommended that you do 4-10 minutes per breast to reap the benefits.
Using an oil, such as almond or jojoba, is also recommended. You could do it during your shower or practice it in a safe space as part of a self-love ritual when you feel called.
This practice is considered safe but not recommended for those with breast cancer or recent breast surgery.
Dance with Venus
Put on some music that makes you feel sexy and feminine, and dance in honor of Venus. Move your body naturally and freely, allowing yourself to fully embody the goddess's energy. As you dance, visualize yourself as a powerful and sensual being, radiating with Venusian energy.
Bathe in Venusian energy
Baths are incredibly soothing and relaxing, allowing you to connect deeply to your intuition, as water can be a conduit for spiritual insights. Also, water has always been associated with cleansing and healing, which makes sense since our body's composition is over 70% water.
A ritual bath is a bath drawn with a spiritual purpose or intention. It often includes adding salts, flowers, herbs, and crystals, to activate, heal or attract specific experiences and qualities into your life.
Deborah Hanekamp, also known as Mama Medicine, created a book full of bath rituals and recipes, which range from addressing self-love, boundaries, and confidence. As you soak in the tub, visualize yourself surrounded by a pink and green aura, the colors associated with Venus.
Imagine the goddess herself bathing you in love and light. Dedicating an evening to soaking in a ritual bath will help you receive and sink into your yin energy. Try it before bed to wind down, followed by journaling about whatever comes up during the bath.
Plant a Venus garden
Venus is also associated with nature and fertility, so creating a Venusian garden is a beautiful way to connect with the goddess.
First, choose flowers sacred to Venus, such as roses, violets, or daisies, and plant them in a particular spot in your garden. Then, spend time tending to your garden each day, offering gratitude to Venus for her blessings.
CALL UPON VENUS
Since Venus rules over love, any meditation focusing on opening up your heart chakra will deeply connect you to Venusian energy. Likewise, becoming still and silent enough for self-reflection will help ground you into the present moment and invoke gratitude.
Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Then, focus on your heart center, the area in the middle of your chest. Visualize a beautiful pink or green light filling your heart center, which represents Venus's energy. Then, speak the following invocation out loud:
"Beloved Venus, planet of love and beauty,
I call upon your energy and blessings.
Fill my heart with love, joy, and harmony.
Guide me toward my heart's desires.
Bring beauty and grace into my life,
And help me to radiate love and kindness to others.
I invite your energy into my life and honor your power and wisdom.
So be it, and so it is."
After you have spoken the invocation, sit in silence and allow yourself to connect with Venus's energy. Visualize the pink or green light in your heart center growing brighter and stronger. Imagine the power of Venus flowing through you, filling you with love, beauty, and harmony.
To close the invocation, take a few deep breaths and ground yourself.
Tip: Calling upon Venus in lingerie is the most empowering thing to get you into your feminine! Venus loves when you dress up like you're going on a hot date, all for yourself.
CREATIVITY
Creativity is inherently intertwined with sexuality, beauty, art, and aesthetics—deeply connected with Venus. So anytime you choose to create out of pure love and joy, expressing yourself without a defined goal connects you to Venus energy.
Write yourself love letters, indulge in poetry, paint your friend or lover, make pancakes for yourself on Sunday morning, and dance expressively and freely. All of these are forms of creative play that connect you to Venus and allow you to tap into the innocence of your inner child.
While Venus loves it when we are committed to our values and dreams, she also reminds us not to take life so seriously, to have fun, and to focus on life'slife's simple pleasures.
The Bottom Line
You can connect to the Venus goddess or any powerful female goddess of history in many ways. Look at it as a creative exploration journey— a way to bring more fullness and richness into your life. After all, Venus essentially wants us to be satisfied, joyful, and content.
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Chiara Christian is a Gemini writer with a passion for understanding others and the world around her. You can check out her website here and follow her meanderings @ageministory.