I invite you to join me on a 42-day journey of surrendering to the unknown. For the duration of Venus Retrograde, together we make the descent into the Underworld to let go and release outdated structures and limiting belief systems, we clear what blocks us from embodying our truth, we discover the treasures hidden within our shadows, we come into clarity about our values for the path ahead, and we rebirth ourselves as new lights empowered with newfound strength and sovereignty built on a steadfast foundation of radical self-love.

Descent Into Truth: A 42-Day Journey of Transformation Guided by Venus invites a sacred group of initiates to commit to a simple daily practice for the duration of Venus Retrograde that serves as the foundation for transformation while held in a safe, sacred container as we journey through the Underworld together. 

Descent Into Truth is designed to work with the upcoming Venus Retrograde cycle, a divinely timed portal that occurs in this time of challenge, uncertainty, and fear on our planet. Venus retrogrades only once every 18 months making it a highly significant cosmic event. Venus’ retrograde cycle is a portal of transformation of the heart, as Venus (the planet of Love) journeys through the Underworld during her retrograde. 

For us, this becomes a potent opportunity to embrace transformation by descending into the Underworld with Venus and inviting her to guide the way to the truth of our hearts. 

The last time Venus was retrograde was May/June 2020 when the world was going through the preliminary stages of great upheaval and darkness, and which activated the birth of the first Descent Into Truth during that time. Here we are again, meeting Venus in her first retrograde cycle since that trying time, and finding ourselves in even more complex dynamics with so much still unknown, so much still to heal. 

We will be working with the ancient myth The Descent of Inanna for greater depth of understanding of our Underworld journey and how it relates to our present reality, both individually and globally. The Goddess Inanna’s descent to the Underworld is the myth behind Venus’ retrograde, illuminating the ultimate feminine power found in the descent. 

To willingly descend and surrender to the unknown is a proactive, courageous response to these challenging shadow times by looking directly at our own shadows within. This is the most powerful tool for working with intense energies, rather than to resist them and have them work you. :) This is an invitation to move towards discomfort to discover truths about yourself as a vehicle for personal transformation and empowerment.

We come together remotely as a group each week to bravely Descend through the 7 gates of the Underworld. We come together to share intentions, for support, for learning, for witnessing, for accountability, for strength, for connection. We generate a powerful field of love through the joined work we do for ourselves that benefits our individual journeys and the world. 

This journey offers you the foundation and structure for initiating powerful change in your life in these evolutionary times. In this Underworld journey, you undergo a death/rebirth. In the Descent, you bravely move towards discomfort and look at what is hidden within the shadows of your heart. This is a process of honoring and integrating your shadow. By embracing the Descent into the truth of your heart, you discover the treasures awaiting you. At the completion of your journey, you emerge with clarity and strength, shining your heart’s truth like never before, radiant with the wholeness of you.

I invite you to harness this Venus Retrograde energy by diving with me into the Great Below. This is a unique and powerful way to ritually work with this important transit, and to embrace the gifts that the Underworld brings. 

• Commit to a 42-day simple daily practice for the duration of Descent Into Truth.

• Descend through the 7 gates of the Underworld and then Ascend, a highly sacred process of death and rebirth.

• Learn about the astrology of this current Venus Retrograde cycle.

• Receive guidance for how to work with your sacred shadow.

• Receive protection tools to do your courageous work safely.

• Be joined in a sacred circle of fellow initiates doing this powerful work together live each week.

• Receive a guided daily meditation recording.

• Receive a living transmission of the ancient myth, Descent of Inanna.

• 7 weekly live group Zoom meetings and the recordings

• 20 minute preparatory call with Angela pre-journey

• Guided meditation audio to support you daily

• Powerful live transmissions and guided journeys on every call

• Offerings to Venus and other guided rituals

• In-depth learning of the ancient text, The Descent of Inanna

• Teaching materials for supporting your shadow work

• Weekly Oracle transmissions for group support and guidance in between meetings

• Email support throughout the 42-day journey

• 1 hour private session with Angela for in-depth support of your process (optional)

• Ongoing community support through a private non-facebook online group

*** Our journey commences on December 19th, 2021 when Venus turns retrograde! But you must make your commitment to join by December 17th to adequately prepare for the start date of your descent. I will be connecting with you before our start date for a 20 minute call to prepare you properly.***

Registration closes december 17th, 2021.

The planet needs your light now like never before. Embody your most radiant light by embracing your shadow and rising up into the truth of your greatest divine power. I hope you will join me in this rich journey into the Great Below!

Please share this with anyone you know who is ready for transformation! 

This journey is open to anyone who is ready to take their life journey to the next levels through dedicated, courageous self-work. Open to all genders, all beliefs, all levels of experience with a daily practice.

Descent Into Truth is for you if:

• You want to contribute to global healing by changing your life starting from within.

• You are ready to transmute your fears into fuel for embodying your greatest gifts.

• You are fired up to make changes in your life but not sure of the next steps to take.

• You want to ritually honor the dark time of the year with sacred inner-work.

• You are ready to work with and integrate your shadow.

• You are ready to take your healing work to new levels.

• You want to be part of a sacred container of brave, vulnerable individuals during the dark time of the year.

• You are complete with keeping yourself small and hidden.

• You are ready to expand into the truth of your divinity.

• You are ready to discover things about yourself that reveal your authentic path.

• You are ready to be part of the global shift into higher consciousness.

• You have an emotional support system available to you outside of this container.

• You were part of the 2020 Descent Into Truth and ready to work with this new cycle of transformation and build upon what was established then.
  
  
  

Descent Into Truth is NOT for you if:

• You want to ‘rid’ yourself of your shadow aspects.

• You are unwilling to release beliefs that shadow aspects are bad or evil.

• You are presently moving through an emotionally or mentally unstable period.

• You are unable to commit to the full 42-day experience in real time.

You will have a simple daily practice for 42 days. This practice is your grounded sacred structure intended to facilitate transformation as you journey through the Underworld. Committing to a daily practice can be an Underworld journey in of itself! And that is the point of it: 

The practices themselves are powerful vehicles for bringing healing to your life, and when we take a journey like that, no matter how good the new practice might be for us or how simple it might be, we are bound to be confronted with resistances and challenges that rise up when establishing new daily habits. This provides rich territory to explore the underlying fears that are triggered through these processes. This is the rich, juicy shadow terrain that wants to be explored in this Underworld journey!

CHOOSE ONE OR TWO of these recommended daily practices for the duration of your 42-day Underworld journey:

• Meditation

• Yoga

• Drinking a cup of Ceremonial Cacao

• Cold showers/ baths

• Waking up at 4:30am (or another consistent early time)

• Cleansing/ fasting/ plant-based eating (many approaches to this based on your circumstances)

• An alternative practice of your choice

For this to work for you in the strongest way, you choose your journey based on what resonates with you and what you know in your heart is best for you. The intention is to invite the challenge and embrace fears that come along with it for you to become stronger, more resilient, and in your full power. Your daily practice, no matter what it is from the above list, will provide a healing template for deep inner work. For those who aren’t morning people, even something as simple as waking up early consistently for 42 days will prove to be challenging which activates rich inner work, and sets the stage for a transformed life. Choose what makes the most sense for your situation that is realistic, challenging, achievable. 

If you regularly practice yoga, 42 days of yoga might not create the strongest template for your transformation. But if the thought of taking a cold shower terrifies you on the other hand, that might be the indicator there’s a huge treasure awaiting you within that fear. You also want to avoid taking on something that is beyond your reach- if you’ve never done a cleanse, committing to a 42 day cleanse might not be realistic for you. (A fast or cleanse can also be gently approached if it calls to you, and can be accomplished with cooked foods during cold winter months. I can advise you the best ways to do this for your situation). Also, avoid choosing too many new commitments from the list. You want to keep it simple, combining no more than two.

I will be connecting with you to talk about your commitment and how to best prepare before we start. It’s up to you to follow your own guidance and intuition on how to navigate your journey. I am here to bring you structure and guidance for how to navigate your journey in a safe, expansive way. I have the tools and expertise to support your chosen journey in the best possible way. I personally know the transformative potential each of these practices hold when committed to daily. I am offering structures that ensure your journey into the darkness is fully safe and fully supported by me.

If this offering resonates with you but you are not clear about how to navigate it, email me to set up a time to talk so I can assist you in making that decision.

For 7 weeks of powerful transformation in a safe, supported sacred container:

3 monthly payments of $150 or one payment of $444 without a private session

3 monthly payments of $193 or one payment of $577 with a discounted 1 hour private session with me scheduled during your descent

May we emerge from the darkness and rise again, re-birthed as bright luminous Morning Stars, empowered with Love for ourselves to share with the world.

What is the relevance of Venus Retrograde?

Venus retrogrades like all the planets do at some point. Venus only goes retrograde every 18 months, so it’s not something we experience frequently. Venus is a planet of love, beauty, money, and what we value. When Venus retrogrades, we slow down to look within to examine these Venusian matters.

This year Venus begins her retrograde on December 19th, 2021 and turns direct on January 29th, 2022. Her retrograde cycle is always a 40ish day journey (this year’s cycle is 42 days) and her journey is visible in the sky. Before she turns retrograde, she is becoming more and more low on the Western horizon in the evenings, appearing as the Evening Star. For a portion of her retrograde, she disappears from the night sky. Mythologically, this is her descent into the Underworld. After she has journeyed through the Underworld undergoing a great process of transformation, Venus re-emerges on the Eastern horizon as the Morning Star.

We will be aligning ourselves with Venus’ journey in the sky to come into fuller awareness and understanding of the power of the descent and the power available to us when we align ourselves with the workings of the planets.

For many years I have consistently worked with the planets for divine structure and support for my processes and can attest to the great power of looking to the rhythms of the sky and the potential it offers for healing, growth, and transformation. Aligning yourself with the cosmos helps to awaken you to the energy available to you and benefit from it in the highest possible way. We are the cosmos, and by consciously working with the planetary energy, we are better able to harness the gifts available to us. 

There is always a divine purpose to the timing of astrological events, and this Venus Retrograde cycle gives us the opportunity to do the healing necessary at this time to navigate this great planetary shift we are currently experiencing. It is a clear invitation for diving deep into into our fears and surrender to the great unknown, to re-emerge transformed with great gifts to share with the world.

WHY DESCEND? SHOULDN’T WE STAY IN THE LIGHT?

To access your greatest light, you must be willing to look at your deepest shadows. The shadows are where great power lies, and while our mind attempts to keep us safe by avoiding the shadow it also keeps us small. If we are brave enough to look into the dark spaces within, we make extraordinary discoveries about ourselves which expands our knowing of the self, and gives us an even greater light to shine in the world with this newfound self-awareness. If we reject or ignore our shadow, we limit the reach of our light. By embracing the descent into the darkness, we ultimately rise up into greater love for ourselves, becoming stronger in our hearts. 

The shadow and light work together. This journey is all about bringing you into balance with your shadow and your light. One cannot exist without the other. They each hold great power. By working with your shadow with intention and integrating your shadow self, you access your greatest power. When shadow aspects are judged or denied, they express themselves in unbalanced, unhealthy ways in our lives. The shadow never goes away, it is part of you and needs your love.

WHY 42 DAYS?

42 days is the exact length of Venus’ retrograde for this cycle. By committing to a daily practice for 42 days, you are setting yourself up to move through the inevitable discomforts, doubts, fears, and triggers that will arise along the way. These feelings are keys to accessing the treasures hiding in the shadows. Staying the course for 42 days takes you into expansive states and creates permanent change in your life. 

There is a divine design to the 40+ day cycle. Yogic science and divine intelligence shows that 40+ days of exposing ourselves to a repetitive experience impacts us on a cellular level. You can certainly benefit from a daily practice or cleanse for 3 days, 10 days, or 30 days. But by the time you reach 40 days, next-level transformation takes place. Old habits and patterns have fallen away, and new patterns of higher consciousness have been created.  

To commit to a 42-day practice instills within you trust, perseverance, and strength by surrendering to the great unknown.

There is a direct correlation between the transformative power of a 40+ day cycle with the 40+ day cycle of Venus Retrograde. This transit is designed for us to transform, if we choose to work with it!

WHO IS INANNA?

Inanna is the Queen of Heaven and Earth in ancient Sumer who surrenders her life of beauty and luxury to enter the Underworld where she ultimately undergoes a death/rebirth and re-emerges in greater power, wisdom, and truth of who she is. She comes back empowered with greater gifts to share with her people and her land. The Descent of Inanna is part of a hymn carved into clay tablets from around the third millennium BC that is as relevant to our modern day reality as much as it was in ancient times. She is said to be the first recorded goddess in history and hers is the oldest known myth of the descent of the Goddess.

Inanna is a goddess of fertility, love, beauty, and so much more.

Venus is the goddess Inanna in the sky. 

Venus’ Retrograde cycle of departing the sky as the Evening Star and vanishing for 42 days is Inanna’s descent into the Underworld. When Venus appears again, she is re-birthed as the Morning Star, shining new light after her journey of transformation. 

With Venus/Inanna guiding the way, we too will symbolically descend from the Western horizon, spending 42 days journeying through the Underworld, and then re-emerge with Venus/Inanna on the Eastern horizon initiated into our full Morning Star glory.

WHAT IS THE INTENTION OF THIS WORK?

The intention of this offering is to work with the power of the cosmos to help you access your greatest strength, clarity, and power by embracing your fears of the unknown and rising up in your most radiant light. 

The intention is to cultivate a rich inner journey that clears away the external noise, chaos, and outside energies to help you find the deep stillness within yourself so that you may discover what is true within your heart in these changing times. 

The intention is to support one another in this work in this new age, for we are not here to do the work alone. Together we learn from one another, we strengthen one another, we create a powerful field of love. By bringing our focus to the shadows within, we are doing the work to bring healing and transformation to the planet starting from within. The work we do for ourselves individually directly benefits the world. 

WHY ANGELA IS YOUR QUALIFIED GUIDE:

I have willingly invited in great transformation by means of Underworld journeys for the last ten+ years of desert-dwelling. Under the bright light of the desert sun is where I unwittingly came to face my darkest shadows. I have lived Inanna’s descent many times and have greatly valued this myth as a guiding light in the darkest times.

I have extensive experience in all of the ways I’ve presented for choosing your 42-day journey, and can expertly guide your way with my wealth of knowledge on fasting, cleansing, yoga, meditation, cold water immersion, early morning awakening, and plant-based eating. I have personally undergone 40+ day spiritual practices countless times over the years, and usually they reach far beyond 40 days once I’ve come to that threshold.

Over the years I have ritually planted myself in the middle of the desert in solitude far from home with no food, no water, no phone for five days at a time. I have fasted on liquids for up to four months at a time. I have a committed daily practice that has maintained solidly for many years. I have practiced yoga for over 20 years. I have been vegetarian/vegan for nearly 20 years and experienced eating fully raw vegan for over 2 years. I’ve lived in solitude in a remote desert abode for over ten years, where silence and no distractions have demanded that I awaken to continuous subtle and not so subtle opportunities to dive into my shadow. I have worked with and honored my shadow aspects actively for the last 6 years. 

Some of you may know me from my early newsletter days of Cycle of the Moon Cleanse eight years ago. The first heart-based offering I shared with the world was a practice of juice cleansing in accordance with the Moon cycles. I have anchored spiritual practice and healing with planetary cycles for years, and have guided hundreds of people to do the work with me. 

My extensive knowledge of astrology, fasting, spiritual practice, Inanna’s myth, and divine surrender have set the foundation for me to be your loving, knowing guide in your own descent.

Descent Into Truth is a unique, authentic offering birthed from my heart, a true expression of my path and a journey I used to undergo privately on my own with Venus Retrograde cycles in years past. My guidance strongly showed me the great opportunity available to many people with this transit, and that it was my service to create the container to help others make the most of this extraordinary, important cosmic cycle to support our individual transformation that is greatly needed on the planet now.

WHAT IF I FAIL TO MAINTAIN 42 DAYS?

There is no failing in this journey. Every step of the way is learning. If you’ve missed a day of your 42 day commitment, the next day is new to start fresh again. There is no judgment, no criticism in this container. There is only loving support and encouragement to do your best. Missing a day or skipping it provides rich material for you to sit with in your inner work and can help you strengthen in your journey.

DO I NEED TO BE ON THE LIVE WEEKLY CALLS?

You are encouraged to join the 7 weekly live calls, but if you need to miss any, you can watch the recordings in between the live calls. The weekly calls are where the journey through the Underworld takes place through powerful live transmissions. Also, being connected with the group of Initiates is a powerful aspect of this journey and you will receive much from the live participation. There is also a private online community space to maintain connection with the other Initiates. What’s most important is being able to stay on track with the journey in real-time even if you miss the live calls, as we are actively working with Venus’ retrograde timing.

WHEN WILL YOU OFFER THIS AGAIN?

This opportunity to work with Venus Retrograde will not come around again for another 18 months. If you are feeling the call, now is the time to join the journey into the great unknown in a safe, supported sacred container. 

I Have Questions About This Journey

Please connect with me and let me know your questions. I’m happy to help you determine if this journey is aligned for you.

Join me in exploring this rich journey where we come together to Descend into Truth, so that we may powerfully Ascend with Divine Light.

B+W Portrait: Rachael Pony Cassells, Middle Portrait: Elena Ray, Crescent Moon Self-Portrait: Angela de la Agua