Love and Self-Love
Feb 8-14, Week 7: Follow your heart...
This coming week has several days timed for love… The 13th is for bindings of love (a nice alignment with the Sun and Moon both in Saturn-ruled signs). This would be for creating and strengthening bonds with the people you love. Saturday the 14th - Valentine’s Day - is also for love (seriously the mage(s) who created the Hygromanteia were thirsty).
Now sometimes the best magic isn’t magic at all. It’s living your life in a magical way. So sure, you could do love magic, but you could also just, you know, spend loving time with the people you love or even think about who and what it is that you love.
I kicked off this year, concurrent with the Venus Cazimi early in January, doing a deep dive into my heart domains. Heart domains are literally what you put your heart into. In my Cycle Codex, heart domains are ruled by the short Venus cycle (so approximately 7.5 months / or twice a year if we’ve being more calendrical about it).
Venus lives in my 12th house, in Cancer (opposed the Venus Cazimi in Capricorn), which means it sometimes doesn’t have a lot of conscious visibility to me (it’s hiding, it’s protected). However, now that Venus and the Sun have moved into Aquarius, I can see that this work actually caused some significant redirection in my heart energies.
One result is that you are going to see a shift here at Next Week in Magic. After over three years straight of weekly posts (with only one miss), I’m moving to a more flexible model. I want to talk about more than just a single day for each week ahead. I want to go deeper into the areas where my heart is leading me (my Cycle Codex, my magical philosophy, and magic for these specific challenging times). My suggestions will always be planner-aligned because the magical planner is how I be and do, and I expect that my deeply ingrained weekly posting habit will continue to push me to provide regular updates.
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Venus’ Earthly Delights is lovely (hah) for heart domain work as well as physical, emotional, and self-love. In addition to the base offering, there are several subsets that could be useful: Friendship, Amatoria (for sexy times), and Healing the Heart (in case you have a recent hurt and need a little self-love).
Magical Suggestions:
Maybe just spend time with the people you love the most (family, friends, pets), doing things you love and that make you all feel loved
If you haven’t examined your own heart domains, this would be a good time for it.
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