I wrote this poem back in 2009. I shared it first on my blog in Dec 2013. There is something prophetic in it both personally and collectively. It came upon me in that deep dark alone time at the coast living by the ocean. My life is different now but this poem speaks to the refuge we can find in the heart of the beloved who sees and knows and loves us, exactly as we are.
I wrote the following poem in 2009 during a retrograde transit of Venus. And its a strange piece of synchronicity that we are now in another Venus Retrograde period.
The astrologer Melanie Reinhardt in one of her lectures said that this is a time to keep one’s heart open as a lot of wounds in relationships can become conscious. And the love we are looking for can be in short supply. In any case we will be challenged to understand what our deepest values are. In the mythologies of more ancient cultures Venus was not always a Goddess of love, she was also a Goddess of war. At times we may need to go to war in a discriminating way in order to stand true to our deeper values.
Venus retrograde periods may bring these kind of challenges and during them we may experience necessary separations or difficulties in relationships…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 
An amazing poem. very beautiful and powerful!
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