by Jana Astanov
Karma Witch At the Gates of Hades
The dark workings of Venus Rx have been apparent to me for quite some time. During the Venus Rx in 2017 I was in London at the 3AM poetry residency, writing one poem a day – all of my writing seemed to have this painful, trauma ridden undertone. Venus of the forgotten, Venus dethroned was the theme, and looking back at most of my adult life and Venus Rx periods I learnt that the quality of this time is very much defined by the shadow side of what Love and Relationships can stir in one’s soul. The murky side of Venus suddenly comes into prominence with her torturous demonic obsessive streak.
Dates of Venus Retrograde periods in the last decade:
2010 Oct 8th – Nov 18th
2012 May 15th – June 27th
2013 Dec 21st – Jan 31st 2014
2015 July 25th – Sept 6th
2017 March 4th – April 15th
2018 Oct 5th – Nov 16th
2020 May 13th – June 25th
2021 Dec 19th – Jan 29th 2022
Venus Retrograde descends into the underworld, and while she stands at the Gates of Hades all Venusian themes collapse into the shadows. Understanding this dynamic, can make the passage much smoother. If you name it, it has less power over you. If you bring it into the light, it cannot lure you into the shadowy corners of your soul where you feel trapped and helpless. You can face it, and break the spell of the darkness. It doesn’t mean that the suffering ceases to exist or that it goes away but it opens up a new potential for resolution, healing, and also facing your Venus Warrior archetype – that especially if the suffering you experience extends onto the whole society, and is expressed through systemic injustice as seen through the distorted Venusian archetype.
If you live with pain and trauma. You have to live. You have to live with the pain and trauma but you cannot live like this. You need to transmute it, you need to turn the anger into the light you need to heal yourself and the whole society in the process. The whole, and you. That’s the only way.
I observe the process of suffering and hurting within myself:
In my pain from this pain
I am me but also the reflection of those who caused the pain
Through this pain I raise and release myself free from suffering and aware that I can surmount the darkness
I can breath out the darkness sketch the trauma as if i had the ability to touch your forehead to make you understand exactly how it felt
Can you comprehend my suffering? Can I embrace yours? And through this exchange we transmute it and make it disappear, surmount our darkness to live fully in the light, be lightness be freedom from what caused us the pain. Be power, be force and so to minimise how often this pain repeats itself, annihilate that particular injustice, make it known – this is wrong, this way of causing people pain has no place in the light of our awareness, we the people, we transmute the ways of this society through the power of our connected pain and the power of our light that elevates us and teaches us about true love and kindness and how to breath in love and breath out suffering, and how to be and live in joy and unison without causing unnecessary pain to others. And how to experience and extend the feeling of connectedness and oneness in harmony and with hope. The end of suffering is possible. The light will carry us on.
If you live with pain and trauma. You have to live. You have to live with the pain and trauma but you cannot live like this. You need to transmute it, you need to turn the anger into the light you need to heal yourself and the whole society in the process. The whole, and you. That’s the only way.
Healing grounds
In this journey of ecstatic and healing experiences the cosmic energy opens planetary portals promising quantum transmutation. I am experimenting, exposing myself, testing, trying, and bettering myself through the process. Even if it gets me sick, even if I overdo, I learn the alchemical proportions and relations. Destructive sickness usually has the opposite effect – once you resurface from Hades, and if you do – it brings revelation, deep transformation of psyche and habits, freeing oneself from the mental and physical limitations imposed by the consensual reality and culture. I am not afraid of suffering, because it brings the true healing, and if the suffering continues it means that there are parts that have not been healed and the whole needs to undergo this process of deep purging too. Bodily or psychic. Soul evolution is intertwined with societies adaptations. Many souls in order to evolve not only need to liberate themselves from individual suffering, but also be able to see the individual suffering in the context of human civilization in a formula of one for all and all for one.
Future Life Progression session
Cosmic quantum streaming from the edges of our galactic frequency field can be received at will. Opening up to the voice is possible, deep tuning, receptivity, the Cosmos is vast and loud, there are multiple channels projecting infinitely so the intention needs to be crystal clear and directed. Failure is possible, but not taking a chance to hear the Cosmic is foolish. In my attempt to commune with quantum reality I perform future life progression sessions so as to change the past and present and guide our collective future towards fairness, freedom and liberation.
Meditating to the juicy red sunrise I saw golden flames sparkling around vibrating through my spirit but also through my past, present and future karmas, past, present and future experiences. Those fairy tongues carried the power of transgressing any difficulty, the flickering shiny galactic golden light showed itself as an activator, a quantum key able to access what was, is and will happen, agent of peace, force, fulfillment, completion.
Past life regression sessions can be useful, so is the future life progression session when the guide implants into your live stream force golden flames of power, activating the transmutation of karma, they will watch out over you on your future journeys connecting you to your intents, your hopes, your visions, your dreamworld, and also your loved ones especially if your intents of reconnection were clear, and your to guides across the time and space, in quantum dance of death, rebirth, evolving and becoming.
Your guides are the people who support you, for multiple reasons. Those may be spiritual teachers or those channelling an aspect of a healing principle, people who you helped in your current, past, future lives and who in turn facilitate your journey. As we shall never discount souls who come across our path, there may be people who have karmic debts towards you, and those you have karmic bonds with. I always pay attention to the moment of meeting someone for the first time, energetically and within the planetary influences. It is a well known truth that the parenting role is one of the most significant karmic alliances, and the planetary transits during the brith of the child remain impactful throughout the years.
When I feel the darkness take over, I bring myself in front of the giant red star rising above the ocean and beaming the golden tongues of quantum power. I use this energy to shield myself from all that may stand in my way, and to carry me through in integrity and intuitive understanding of my cosmic soul mission. The power generator of our system, our Sun is the planetary guide within the Milky Way galaxy, its majesty, its dangerous beauty of death and life and of ultimate things, and its numinous brilliance, are part of the alchemical process of resetting our human karma. The power to be used and to be reckoned with. Divinely enticing warmth of the rising sun… Golden trance… Cosmic Consciousness calling you.
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About the author
Jana Astanov aka Agni Jnana Yannanda, which translates to Mystic Fire, is an astrologer and “Cosmic Serpent Journey” shamanic prophetess, living in the Shawangunk Mountains, as The Lady of The Mountain, otherwise know as Ninhursag.
