17/09/2026
VENUS AT THE THRESHOLD 🖤🪶
There are times when the light grows brightest just before we are asked to descend.
If you have looked toward the western sky after sunset lately, you may have noticed her.
Venus.
The Evening Star ✨
She is at the height of her brilliance now, luminous in our evening sky and yet she is already beginning the journey that will eventually take her from our sight.
There is an ancient story that I always connect deeply with as I watch her.
The Descent of Inanna.
Inanna, Queen of Heaven, chooses to descend into the Underworld, the realm of her sister, Ereshkigal.
To enter, she must pass through seven gates.
At each gate, something she carries is removed.
Piece by piece.
Until she can no longer enter as the woman, or the Queen she has known herself to be.
I have worked with this story before, but something about watching Venus in the sky now feels like an invitation to walk it differently.
So over the coming weeks, as Venus makes her actual descent from our evening sky toward her disappearance in October, I am going to walk the Seven Gates of Inanna.
The gates are not astronomical stages of Venus’s journey. They belong to the ancient myth.
But I want to hold the two alongside one another
The movement in the sky and the movement within.
At each gate I will share a little of Inanna’s story.
And if you feel called to go deeper, I will also offer a small private reflection and ritual for that gate, something simple that you can experience for yourself.
You don’t need to know anything about Inanna.
You don’t need to have begun at the beginning.
You simply need to arrive at whichever gate finds you.
If you would like to walk this journey with me, leave VENUS in the comments and I will send you tonight’s first little ritual ~ The Threshold.
Because Inanna does not enter the Underworld because she has lost her light.
She enters because there are truths that can only be met in the dark.
And tonight, Venus is still shining.
Brilliantly.
🖤🪶
Jeri
Awen Healing