Venus Retrograde: a worthiness Revolution!?

What is "Worthiness"?

With Venus retrograde since July 22nd-September 3rd, with an important post-retro shadow period through early October, the question of worthiness has been on my mind...

How do we define worthiness? What's our personal relationship to worthiness? (this will look different for everybody) 

How are we triggered (either positively or negatively) by someone else claiming their worthiness?

Venus has been spending an unusually long period in Leo, a sign which rules our sense of self-confidence and self-expression. It's how we're expressing our worthiness, often in an outer sense (to shine and to play and share our uniqueness and creativity..

This is the space of true generosity, when we feel blessed and abundant and simply must share from the overflow (rather than from a sense of lack, guilt or fear;)

Hmmm…i WONDER why that can POSSIBLY feel so difficult for so many of us? :)

The shadow side of Leo is excessive pride, arrogance and a sense of entitlement. 

And what about Venus-ruled matters themselves? These include money, our values, our sense of self-worth (different from self-confidence), as well as our relationships.

There are challenges and gifts particular to every retrograde season and this one is no different. If you have important planets or points in Leo you may have found this time to be rather difficult!

For myself this has been playing out financially in quite challenging ways and of course, that’s true for so many of us these days especially it seems…

I've needed to "go back to the drawing board" repeatedly to understand where i've needed to forgive, both myself and others, in order to reconnect to that worthiness. 

As i've come to understand over the course of years addressing my money issues is that it's basically the same story for everyone.

Scarcity and lack are wired into us, rich, poor and anyone in between.

And the link to worthiness is often present..

When you really consider it, what does worthiness mean for you personally?

As someone with a defined will and g centre in Human Design, at the level of my conscious awareness anyways i've long known, maybe even forever?, is that worthiness is not in question, for anyone, period.

yep, that’s right. Its all a Big Cosmic Joke (BCJ) 

Worthiness simply IS. You are worthy, I am worthy, everybody's worthy. Period. The End.

What I resented (like, deeply resented) was other people behaving like they weren't worthy because then I felt like I had to "dial down" my worthiness. I mean, The trauma.🥲

I am, have always been and probably will always be in sincere AWE of how genuinely extraordinary women are...not celebrities, not necessarily people who've won major awards or who've been formally honoured for some achievement or other big accomplishments

I mean regular, ordinary, “average” women i've met and known, even virtual strangers...usually acting like their obvious brilliance ain't no big thing...and who are definitely undervaluing themselves financially 🤯

(I also think the World is most definitely paying a price for that…but that’s a topic for another time)

Part of this is that one of my super-powers (100% completely unhumble brag) is seeing people's genius and being able to draw it out and nurture it.

What broke my heart was THEM not seeing and owning it (not coincidentally, it’s also a reason why I only work with women entrepreneurs & leaders all in on their transformation)

Ok, fine. But if we're all worthy, shouldn't we know it already?

Well, let's say you don't have a defined will centre and/or G-centre…In that case, your feeling sense of self-worth might be more inconsistent. 

Maybe you often feel unworthy, like you have to do things, perhaps especially things you don't have a stronger desire around to prove to yourself or others that you're worthy.

There are important lessons from any experience but approval, applause and accolades while welcome, have little to do with worthiness…

And what about "proving"?

While you don't need to prove your worthiness, which is innate, you do need to demonstrate it in some way, even if it's small and only for yourself/the people closest to you. 

So feeling, being and doing work together in a synchronistic, synergistic way. 

This is where our individual self-knowledge is so important because it will look different person to person and of course our specific circumstances vary, too..

Maybe you need a nap or a massage or take a vacation…

Maybe like me, what you really know you need to embody your worthiness is to buckle down, push through (initially!!) and get shit done you've been procrastinating on (i confess it can feel like i’m at battle with my inner rebel/2 year old to move through the procrastination although I feel great when I'm doing it!)

And as conscious entrepreneurs and leaders, at a certain level, we recognize that we have to align with that core worthiness to step up and do the bolder things being called of us…

I'd love to hear if this post sparked something for you...what is your experience in feeling worthiness or unworthiness?

In what ways are you hoping to shift that?

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*while this post was written and shared during the 2023 Venus Retrograde, through synchronicity it may find you at any time! Trust however it resonates with you.