The Third Gate of Ascent
April 19, 2026: Venus meets with the moon in Taurus
Venus is low in the evening sky, shining brightly as Evening Star. She meets with the moon at the Sacral Chakra gate.
The Gatekeeper Speaks
My beautiful One, do you understand now why you would burn out, why your wantings didn’t materialize the way you wanted them too? Do you understand now how to ground your fire, to not just want, not just fight, not just start, but to be intentional, focused, and build? To build for your passionate purpose, to build a structure, a legacy, that will outlast you.
It is time to create. To ground the fire in the alchemical vessel of the sacral chakra and create. Create structure, create the pathway forward for embodying your passionate purpose. To live it daily, to let your fire build and inform action. My bold and courageous One, be willing to take the micro actions. The small steps that build and gain momentum. The small steps that set the foundation. The small steps that can be enacted every day. No waiting for the “right time.” Now. Now it is time to create.
What are you afraid of, in getting exactly what you want? What support is needed, as you begin to lovingly take responsibility for your dissonance? This too is creation, the creation of coherency. It is time to create.
When you know the truth, that is the freedom. You are the truth. You are the truth that transcends all the facts. Seeking the truth will set this truth free. The truth is the essence of your heart. It is the real metal of your heart, the gold of the alchemists.
-A.H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book One
Gold Essence
The Quality of Sovereignty
Little by little, we become aware of our life with all of its conflicts and barriers without totally believing that this is all there is. The more we’re able to pay attention and disidentify, the more we’ll be able to see the real truth that is there like veins of gold in piles of rocks. The truth is the gold in the ore. Developing this capacity to pay attention and to disidentify at the same time ultimately leads us to experience our essence.
Essence is in the sensations, emotions, and mental events, but it’s not any of them. Precious stones are in the earth, but they are not the earth itself. They are something else. So is Essence in you. It’s not your flesh, not your emotions, not your thoughts. But it is embedded there. Essence is in you like the gold in the rock, like precious stones in the earth.
-A.H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book 1
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, where is the seat of your power? How are you the empress of your realm?
Bold and beauteous One, what apparently stands in the way of you choosing to stand in your authentic power?
Sacred Warrior, what do you desire? What is it like to want that?
Bold and beauteous One, what does it feel like to become Desire itself?
What is your own unique lens through which to explore this Essence of Gold, the quality of sovereignty, 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
It is time. We are being called to take action and create. To own our power and responsibility to create what we have been called to embody in this lifetime. Not to finish, not to have a final product, but to begin. Small movements that begin to build momentum that support and carry us.
It’s time to create. To ground the fire in the alchemical vessel of the sacral chakra, filled with the fullness of the earth and all the resources She contains, seeding our desires, and create. Create structure, create the pathway forward for embodying your Why, What, and How.
Spend time rooting into the earth and filling with Her fullness. Let the heat and activation of the sun permeate your skin, pooling into your belly center. Let the cooking begin.
Spend time visualizing exactly what you want to create. Embody it fully. See it flowing out from you into your day. How do you move from this place when you have created exactly what you want? Notice the discomfort that arises when you embody exactly what you want. This is the dissonance that has kept you from creating what you want in the past. We are here to love on it, support it, honor the dissonance, which brings it into coherence. What support does your dissonance need?
And now, we take action. Every day, visualize exactly what you want to create. Feel the friction between where you are now and where you want to be. Friction is fuel. This is our fire. Then channel it into action. Take one micro action today that supports this creation. This is the earth element bringing into manifest form. Record it. We don’t trust our creating yet because we need experience. We need to collect our data. Feel the friction. Take the action. Record the progress. Build your momentum. Do this daily and see what begins to take shape. We are ready to create.
