The Second Gate of Ascent
March 20, 2026: Venus meets with the moon in Aries
Venus is low in the evening sky, shining brightly as Evening Star. She meets with the moon at the Root Chakra gate.
The Gatekeeper Speaks
Beautiful One, you are already everything you need to be. Your passion, your fire, your longings and desires - who do you think gifted these to you? You were fashioned to have these desires in order to bring them forth in the world. You are already everything you need to be. It is here. It is simply time to build with all that you are.
Are you willing to be filled, to be electrified, by the Divine? Are you willing to ground down, root into the earth, opening, opening, opening to be moved by Her? Are you willing to build in tandem with the Divine, dancing with Her, moment to moment, supported and moved by the fluidity of structuring of Silver Essence?
This quality of Silver is changeable, adaptable, responsive to the situation at hand. The old ways of building, the rigidity of forcing and pushing and shaming into being are done. We build with suppleness, responsiveness, allowing what is here, grounding what is here, opening to what is here, now. Ground your fire and let it flow into being.
If we are aware of more subtle levels, we might be aware of a sense of strength, of the presence of strength as essence, and a kind of clarity and spaciousness and sense of universal will holding and moving our experience.
-A.H. Almaas, Inner Journey Home
Silver Essence
The Quality of Divine Will
Understanding relates directly to discerning the harmony in the situation that is implicit but not clear to us yet. And because we are in a limited place of realization, we can only see the harmony by seeing interconnectedness, how things relate to each other.
But if we are in the stance of our True Nature, things can change around us, and our body still changes, but the experience is that there is no passage of time. And that is because the experience of that body of light is agelessness, endlessness—always now, now, now, never changing, that ever-fresh now, this very moment always.
-A.H. Almaas, Unfolding Now
Inquiry Questions
Take some time to drop in, deepen into the quiet of your unfolding soul, and explore what is here now in your awareness, rising as Evening Star.
Sacred Warrior, how do you align your personal will with the direction in which reality is already unfolding?
Bold and beauteous One, where does your passionate purpose come from?
Sacred Warrior, what are you building? Why? What guides your efforts? What is it like to accept support?
Bold and beauteous One, what is your experience as you embody alignment, becoming the essence of alignment itself?
What is your own unique lens through which to explore this Essence of Silver, the quality of divine will, for Venus’s ascent as Evening Star? With whom do you journey this cycle?
Ritual Space
Take some time to drop into ritual space as you receive the initiation of this gate. We step into liminal space, time out of time, in ritual space. We connect with the lineage of those who have watched the stars for millennia, receiving the gift of Venus's journey, aligning ourselves with the cycles that are already unfolding. We remember our nature as beings who cycle, change, transform. We remember how to receive knowing directly, rather than needing others to tell us what is so.
You may wish to create an altar, light a candle, and anoint yourself with oils. Sit with this gate, the quality of Essence that is being called forward. As you deepen in surrendering to receiving initiation, ask who would come to guide you in your journey with this quality of Essence? What of yourself do you offer in return? What is calling to be set down at this gate? What pattern, belief, way of being in this world, is challenged by this quality of Essence? What are you ready to release in order to deepen more fully in this journey?
What gift is revealed in the releasing of this pattern, belief, or way of being? What has more freedom to be itself in this release? You may see this directly, or may need to live with this initiation throughout the whole cycle and come back and answer this question before entering into the next gate. You may wish to draw cards to receive guidance in this way.
As you complete your experience in ritual space, take time to offer thanks and adoration to the archetype, to Venus, to your personal guide that arose for this journey, to your ancestors and lineage. Offer thanks to the land that holds and nourishes and grounds you. In the giving and receiving we remember our deep connectedness to all beings everywhere, throughout time and space.
Remember and Record
This cycle continue practicing with Silver Essence. Feel the connections between the throat, diaphragm, yoni, feet. Sense the body as the alchemical vessel and empty, making space to receive Silver Essence. Feel the quicksilver flow into you, liquid, and yet able to take form, supporting you from the inside out. That electric activation, where the silver takes structural form, rooting into the earth, branching up and out through you, the Divine making manifest in the world through you. The Silver Tree of Life.
We are moving forward in our building skills. We’ve learned that what we focus on grows. Guidance is there when we choose to look. And secondly, coherence increases when we own and love the dissonance. From this foundation, we begin to own our passionate purpose, knowing that we are already exactly as we need to be. We are designed to bring forward this longing. This is the alignment of Personal Will and Divine Will. We were created to hold the longing of our hearts. We were given the life initiations to bring forward a particular desire. We are already exactly as we need to be.
Our daily inquiry this cycle is focused on claiming who you are at your core. Use the prompt: My passion is to… or, I hold the gift of… or, I am here to… (whatever sentence stem feels most appropriate for you). Let the answers to the prompts flow without overthinking it. In the last week of the cycle, we will look back and start to identify the patterns or constellations of what is arising for each of us. Over the next few cycles we will identify three layers to this passionate purpose:
The Why: the archetypal transpersonal pattern that is being made manifest in the world (this is the pattern that’s replayed, over and over through your life)
The What: the structure that you are building throughout your life
The How: how you show up in your life day to day
Again, we are slow building, deep building. You don’t have to force it, make it happen now. We are building the way the Ancient Grandmother knows how to build, using the fire and passion of Venus in Aries. Let it arise. Seek guidance. Follow your intentions and longings. It’s already there.
