Serpent & Swan
The Heroine’s Journey with Venus Rising
February 19 - September 17th, 2026 ~ 3rd Thursday Monthly 5-7:30pdt
This month of February we experience one of the most profound astrological shifts in our lifetime that will usher in new human consciousness and Venus is part of it. Her light is our guidance for feminine wisdom. How are we integrating what we have shed through her descent during the year of the snake and how will we rise into our new empowered shining?
The planet Venus associated with Queen of Heaven Inanna’s mythic shamanic initiation, rises again from her underworld journey on February 18th and will be visible in the evening sky with the crescent moon. We have been on her path of descent as the morning star since April 2025, shedding what we have outgrown from each chakra/crescent moon gate for 8 months plus her underworld shamanic vigil for three. Venus’ re-emergence in the evening sky heralds the next spiral of integrating wisdom and sovereignty in this cyclical death-rebirth cycle lasting 584 days.
Join me for a monthly New Moon sacred temple circle for women in support of integrating the year of the snake’s great shedding and rising of Venus from the underworld. This is a path of devotion to your embodied remembering as daughter of the goddess - a shamanic priestess path into to your dark and light aspects, your whole divine self.
The monthly temple is for those who are ready to bring the serpent (earth, shadow) and swan (sky, light) energies together, those who feel called to embodiment as the authentic path of the feminine rising. We receive the medicine of Inanna/Ishtar who is the original goddess of shamanic transformation, who descends into the underworld to retrieve the jewels of the shadow exiled in the dark. Devotion to Venus’ cycle opens the feminine wisdom gates within.
Join me monthly in sacred space to presence the energies of each chakra gate for an 8 month medicine integration of renewal. We will tune in to the altar of each chakra, what we have released from the dark and what new awareness is arising within.
We will commune with the goddess to support the relevant healing and wisdom for embodiment. The divine and dark feminine mothers, guides, and goddesses who carry the powerful healing we need. They are our allies and soul lights here to empower us for this time of the Great Returning Dark Feminine Rising.
Venus with crescent Moon over Tomales Bay, Point Reyes National Park ~photo by Cara
Included in our Serpent and Swan Temple
Receive the Ceremonial Altar of Mother Crescent Moon conjoining Venus
Attune to the Rebirth of your sacred energy centers, from root to crown
Remember the energetic medicine of each chakra
Guided meditation for Revelation and Communion
Shamanic Journey to the Goddess with Drum and Music
Writing Inspirations and Intentions
Ceremonial Anointing Blessing
Channeled Healing Energy from Divine Feminine
Sharing, Connexion and Support
*Gatherings will be the 3rd Thursday of the month. 5-7:30pm pdt
*Additional full moon ceremony optional
*Commitment to attend live for all gatherings recommended
*Circles will not be recorded for confidentiality
*Investment energy exchange: sliding scale $88-$108 per circle.
*Option for One to One Shamanic Medicine Sessions with your temple attendance: sliding scale $150-$175 monthly. These sessions will focus on the shadow part/s that are arising to be integrated.
*This is not a training, it is an immersion and initiation. A sacred space to attune to the depths of yourself , from deep in the black earth to the diamond starlight. A spiral journey into the sacred remembering, a soul retrieval of your divine self that is daughter of divine earth and cosmos.
Venus with crescent Moon over Tomales Bay, Point Reyes National Park ~photo by Cara
Snake and Swan carry this balanced medicine of integrating body and spirit. Many paths only focus on elevation, the energy of ascending. But what we discover through the shadows arriving at our door is that the descent into depths is the place of powerful initiation, life shaking to shed the veil of illusions from our eyes. The lower chakras anchor us in our body and deep earth wisdom, the realm of the serpent, our ancient ancestor’s bones and medicine. The upper chakras elevate us with spiritual transcendent connection and together we alchemize wisdom.
Why is this devotion important now?
We living in times of dire emergency and crisis. We all know what is at stake. The exile of the goddess in our collective consciousness has been intentionally manipulated to control and destroy all that is sacred. The Great Mother is calling each of us to remember the sacred within to embody feminine values and leadership that protects all life. We need to come together and support each other on this perilous journey in the long dark to bring a sustainable future that protects the Sacred Heart with the Sword of Truth.
The wisdom that comes from the heroine’s journey is not to bypass but to integrate. Experiencing challenges is not a failure but an initiation. The great mother shows us that loss and change is how we grow. This is how we gather our wisdom from the depths. The path of Venus and the story of Inanna show us the way.
We descend to ascend, as above so below. As our roots deepen our branches rise higher.
