What does it mean to understand Venus as the Intimate Benefic?

What might Venus in Aries teach us about confronting and advocating for our desires? 

Our guest today, Suprasensory Shahir, is one of my favorite emissaries of Venus. Naturally, Shahir offers deep insights and generous, expansive perspectives on the current Venus Retrograde in Aries and Pisces we're experiencing.

We discussed Shahir's perspectives on the planetary retrograde phenomenon, cultivating Venusian qualities in one's self and one's communities when Venusian influences feel scarce in the collective field, and reckoning with our interior parts.

Suprasensory Shahir is a love devotee mystic. A queer Muslim astrologer-diviner currently based in their motherland in Southeast Asia.

They write on their substack 'love as origin, love as destination, love as intermediacy' and have appeared on multiple astrology and spiritual podcasts with their beloved communities.

For this episode, Shahir has an aries venus retrograde in the 5th House of Fortune - the planetary joy of Venus.

Resources Mentioned:

• Shahir's Venus Embodiment series (including a conversation with me on Venus in Aquarius)
• Pallas K. Augustine's Venus Retrograde workbook WHEN THE WATERS COME
• Shahir's collaboration with Britten LaRue The Magician's Table 2025

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How might we attune to the oceanic spirit of Pisces within our bodies?

In this episode, I'm sharing a guided meditation and breathwork practice for Pisces season.

As I described during this month's transmission 195. March 2025: Rooting Into The Cycles of Life, consciously connecting with our breath is one of the oldest, most potent portal into the heart of earth.

Return to this practice throughout the season and beyond as it calls to you.

May this practice feed your spirit, support your embodiment, and bless the web.

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The theme for March 2025 is Rooting Into The Cycles of Life.

How do we ground into our connection to the heart of earth amidst cyclical change?

What does contrast teach us about reality? 

How do we honor the process of life?

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This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

What explorations are most relevant to us in 2025, given the astrology and energetic signatures? Who might we become in the face of upheaval and change?

Over the course of two episodes, Kelsey Rose Tortorice and I are joining forces to discuss the astrology of 2025.

On this episode, Part 1, we cover the undertones: Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Chiron.

Meanwhile, Part 2, on Kelsey's podcast The Maia Games, covers the mid tones: Jupiter, Saturn, and The Lunar Nodes.

With all three outer planets shifting signs, 2025 is a year of significant astrological changes. Over the past few years of knowing Kelsey, I've been deeply impacted by their perspectives, creative fluency with astrology, and visceral kinship with the outer planets. Kelsey was the first person that came to mind and this conversation was as electric as I dreamed them to be.

Listen to Part 2 on Kelsey's podcast, The Maia Games.

Timestamps:

[00:18:00] On the concept of undertones & mid tones

[00:23:44] Chiron in Aries

[00:48:46] Pluto in Aquarius

[01:10:58] Neptune shifting from Pisces into Aries

[01:33:50] Uranus shifting from Taurus into Gemini

Kelsey's bio:

Kelsey is a post-capitalist astrologer, teacher, human design experiMentor, and community initiator. Ruled by a 7th house Jupiter in Gemini, they are a student-teacher of the maia; seeking to understand and universalize the mechanics of reality within the context of individuality, relationship, cosmos, and consciousness as a whole. 

Kelsey’s frequency facilitates upheaval; disrupting homogenized programming and re-orienting people to their differentiated truth and separateness as a means to arriving to connection & inherent wholeness. With reverence for differentiation and a knack for universalization, they embrace the simultaneous uniqueness and sameness of each human experience. Their work incorporates various modalities, frameworks, and spiritual teachings in honoring and navigating this apparent contradiction.

Kelsey accompanies others on their journeys towards remembering what they Know, and invites deeper levels of autonomy, authenticity, faith, freedom, and surrender along the way.

Kelsey's Links:

• Website: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/kelseyrosetort/

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How would our spiritual path look if we trust our direct experiences? What might we discover when we question the voices that claim authority over The Divine?

Rio Larmand is a printmaker, philosopher, and constellational astrologist who follows her curiosity where it takes her. She is devoted to magic and believes that life on Earth is an exciting challenge that we all agreed to engage in. She uses astrology to speak love into hard places and shine a light for wayward travelers. She serves the frequency of faith, and hopes to leave all those who encounter her with a smile and some courage.

In this conversation, we discussed our experiences being artists who defected from the conventional art world to create our own paths, 13 sign true sidereal astrology – which Rio practices, the experience of giving our power away on the spiritual path, and direct experiences with God.

Links:

• Rio's mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/c5b8f9e7dc83/signup-for-the-newsletter
• Rio's Website (for art, calendars, planners, and readings): https://www.priestess-press.art/
• Rio's YouTube channel- https://www.youtube.com/@cosmicwizardshow
• For those super 13 sign curious, Rio has a pretty incredible facebook group- https://www.facebook.com/groups/248375707588900
• Rio's Instagram is @the.cosmic.wizard
   

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What does a regenerative relationship with death, decay, and transformation look like? 

How do we stay rooted during moments of collective upheaval and activation?

For the Full Moon in Leo, I'm sharing a tarot reading. 

Here are the prompts for the cards I pulled:

• A card to anchor us during the Full Moon
• What we're here to illuminate for ourselves
• What we're here to illuminate for the collective
• Guidance to bridge the gap between the personal and the collective concerns
• An ally in our healing journey 

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What is the difference between Not Knowing and Unknowing? 

How might the practice of Unknowing deepen the Mystic's Path? 

In this episode, we contemplate the wisdom of the North Node and Neptune conjunction in Pisces. 

Read more about Gene Key 36 here.

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The theme for February 2025 is Answering The Call of The Cave.

What awaits in the caves of our own depths?

What do we need to heal so we can heed the call?

How might we resource our alchemical descent?

Time Stamps

00:00 Intro, Offerings, Announcements

19:48 Contemplative Guidance for February 2025

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What are the differences between our wants and our desires? How might cultivating discernment between the two help us plan for the coming year?

We're exploring some pitfalls I've made in the past when planning my upcoming year.

In this episode, I discussed profound differences between the things we want and our true desires. I also discussed how that understanding has shifted my relationship with my desires. 

Follow along with the journey! 

Here's the complete mini-series: 

• Part 1: Don't Get Stuck in The Waiting Room
• Part 2: Don't Fix Your Conditioning
• Part 3: Don't Forget That You're Human
• Part 4: Don't Mistake Temporary Experiences as Infinite Truths
• Part 5: Don't Confuse Your Wants for Your Desires

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What are some subtle, unconscious ways that we resist change? How might we embrace our moment-by-moment truths? 

We're exploring some pitfalls I've made in the past when planning my upcoming year.

In this episode, I discussed sneaky ways that we solidify temporary experiences out of fear and need for survival – and how we can unravel and liberate ourselves.

Follow along with the journey! 

Here's the complete mini-series: 

• Part 1: Don't Get Stuck in The Waiting Room
• Part 2: Don't Fix Your Conditioning
• Part 3: Don't Forget That You're Human
• Part 4: Don't Mistake Temporary Experiences as Infinite Truths
• Part 5: Don't Confuse Your Wants for Your Desires

If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.

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This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].