Your Venus Return
This is an invitation to take a look at your Venus Return Cycle—a deeply personal and potentially illuminating glimpse into your soul’s journey.
Every eight years, we go through a personal Venus Return (for 19-months).
This powerful cycle can reveal key themes on your life’s path—a time when you may have faced challenges that ultimately led to where you are now and your biggest work in the world.
The purpose of the 19-month Venus Return Cycle is to activate a fuller, more aligned expression of your personal Goddess Archetype (Stay with me — I’ll write more about this soon!), guiding you toward a deeper embodiment of your inner divine feminine (this applies to all humans, regardless of how you identify).
I invite you to reflect on your own Venus Returns and explore how these cycles may have shaped your journey.
Mapping Your Venus Return
What happened around the time you were:
8?
16?
24?
32?
40?
48?
56?
64?
72?
80?
88?
96?
104?
Lay it all out and see if any life themes emerge.
Are there experiences from those years that illuminated your soul’s path?
That reveal your deepest challenges or moments of rebirth?
That show how far you’ve come?
Perhaps there was a moment of shamanic death and rebirth—an experience that marked a significant turning point in your life?
Looking at our Venus Returns can catalyze deep soul work.
These cycles often push us to confront fears, shed outdated identities, and emerge transformed. This reflection becomes even richer as we age and gain perspective.
In the teachings of Venus Alchemy, Cayelin Castell, Tami Brunk and Sheridan Semple, found through extensive research that during these 8-year Venus cycles, people often experienced:
Pivotal life transitions like abuse, marriage, divorce, affairs, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion, illness, or the death of loved ones
A loss of power or identity
For women especially: themes of violation and oppression…reflecting the collective wounding of the feminine
These patterns are not random—they’re sacred.
Take your time. Some cycles will be crystal clear. Others may be more subtle.
(Something to note: as we move through successive Venus Returns, their intensity may soften…while our empowerment deepens.)
My Venus Return Story
Looking back at my own Venus Returns, I’ve noticed very clear moments that have made who I am.
Each one has marked a pivotal moment in my journey:
Age 8: I remember tracing my finger along a flower carved into my headboard, thinking, What is wrong with me? I couldn’t explain the deep sadness and anxiety I felt. My parents took me to a doctor that wrote “psychosomatic complaints” on my record (I found it last year). I believe this was the first time I experienced anxiety and a feeling of hopelessness. This was also the year I started to think my body was bigger than everybody else my age.
Age 16: I fell in love with my husband. I opened my heart and body for the first time, only to be met with shame and ridicule from my family. It was one of my earliest experiences of how the feminine is often punished for expressing her power.
Age 24: Derek went from ARMY Reserves to Active Duty, and we moved from Florida to Hawaii. At the same, we had a 1-year-old (Carter) and I was 4 months pregnant with Ayrabella. In February 2008, Derek’s Dad, Alvin, was dying of cancer, so Derek flew off the island to New York to be with his Dad when he passed… but he missed it. At the same time, I was preparing to give birth to Ayrabella. She was born the day of Alvin’s funeral, so Derek wasn’t there for Ayrabella’s birth. Then, 6 months later, Derek deployed into a war zone in Iraq, and I was on the island with two children under two. I found a community that became family, and ultimately found a strength in me that I had never known.
Age 32: I walked the USANA stage as a Silver Director during my very first year—a rare and exciting accomplishment. I was also part of a mastermind led by Dr. Christiane Northrup, whose books and teachings began opening me to the world of spirituality. I was gaining momentum as a solo entrepreneur (Virtual Assistant), beginning to heal my relationship with my body, and living on base in Oklahoma—fully immersed in motherhood while also moving through a party phase that ultimately felt misaligned with my body and spirit.
Age 40: I remembered who I truly am…and had the best, most soul aligned year of my life so far.
Tomorrow, March 29, 2025, marks the end of my 5th Venus Return, as Venus begins a new cycle in Aries/Pisces (we’re leaving the Leo 19-month cycle). I’ve loved every moment of this return. I’m sad to see it end—and equally excited to see what the next one brings.
If you're open to it, I’d love to hear about your own Venus Return cycles. Simply reply to this email!
If you want to know the specific dates of your Venus cycles, please email me with your date of birth, and I’m happy to help.
Thank you for being here, beloved reader.
Love always,
Danielle
P.S. If you’d love to learn all about your Venus blueprint, I’d be honored to share this sacred wisdom with you. You can book a reading with me here.