Venus spell: the altar is you

A Venusian guide to self-worth, sacred pleasure, and embodied devotion

What if self-worth is not something you build but something you remember? It is not a checklist or performance but a sacred resonance and return. As Venus stations direct on April 12th, here are ideas for a devotional altar and a spell to integrate Venusian guidance on self-worth and value.

This is the deeper current beneath the goddesses Aphrodite and Venus. Often reduced to tropes of romance and vanity, their truer forms carry the wisdom of embodied desire, magnetic self-possession, and beauty as devotion. They are luminous archetypes of erotic intelligence and intuitive power.

When we work with them consciously, they show us how to come home to our inherent worth.

Goddess Nuit hums a song of cosmic belonging

But Venus is not alone in this remembering. Another ancient figure hums underneath this work: the Egyptian goddess Nuit, who arches over the cosmos, her body made of stars. Nuit does not ask us to perform our value. She invites us to know the self and to hold our worth not in perfection but in presence.

Nuit asks us to remember that we are made of the infinite. Her message is quiet and potent: Know thyself.

As Venus stations direct on April 12th, aligning with the Libra full moon, the light and dark feminine energies weave together. These archetypes offer a constellation for healing the ache of self-doubt and disconnection. They invite us to root worth not in productivity but in pleasure, beauty, and personal truth—and to befriend our wild womanhood and soft femininity.

I know I am bringing in a few goddesses here. They were each coming in hot 🥵 as I worked with self-worth and my values, each bringing a nuanced nudge.

Venus and Aphrodite: goddesses of desire and liberation

Venus (Roman) and Aphrodite (Greek) are goddesses of love, beauty, sensuality, desire, and relational magnetism. Their symbolism runs far deeper than romantic cliché. They are radiant archetypes of embodied allure, erotic intelligence, attuned pleasure, and self-worth that radiate from within. What can we learn from these baddies?

1. Embodied desire

They represent the sacredness of desire—not just sexual desire but the full spectrum of longing: to be seen, to create, to experience beauty. In patriarchal systems, desire is often framed as something dangerous or shameful. But Venusian desire is divine guidance that brings resonance and vitality.

2. Magnetic self-worth

Both goddesses symbolize inner radiance that draws others in—not through performance but deep self-possession. Venus doesn’t chase. She attracts. Her magnetism comes from being in tune with her values and pleasures. She’s a beacon.

3. Sacred sensuality

Venus is not about external beauty standards. She is the perfume of orange blossoms, the velvet of skin, the pleasure of honey on the tongue. She teaches that beauty is a lived, sensory experience.

4. Creative and erotic power

Aphrodite’s mythic birth from sea foam ties her to life-force itself. She is eros as creation. An artist’s goddess, she rules adornment, music, and art. In her realm, beauty is not frivolous. It is power.

5. Liberation from patriarchal morality

These goddesses have been mischaracterized for millennia. But their older symbolism speaks of autonomy, freedom, and choice. Aphrodite loved freely. Venus ruled from within. Worth is not earned by purity or sacrifice—it is innate.

6. Reenchantment and devotion

To see life as beautiful, sensual, and sacred—even in the ordinary—is a radical act. You are not being frivolous when you adorn yourself, take naps, luxuriate in sunlight, or enjoy your life. You are remembering. You are receiving.

Ideas for a devotional altar

Aphrodite and Venus remind us that we are worthy not because we’re perfect but because we are. They call us to return to the altar of ourselves and make it beautiful, sacred, and whole.

As Venus stations direct this April, create a devotional altar to this sovereign planet of love and the goddesses Venus and Aphrodite. Imagine yourself adorned in silky textiles, surrounded by delicious things. Maybe you even recreate this scene with a loved one and worship each other for a while. Here are some ideas:

• Fish: emotional depth, intuition, and feminine mystery

• Shells: scallop or cowrie: protection and sensuality

• Ripe oranges, peaches, and figs for sweetness, softness, and life force

• Stars and soft light: inner radiance and personal truth

• Water and waves: intuition, emotional release, and oceanic rebirth

• Honey or golden belongings: radiance and inherent value

• Blue sea glass: emotional depth, receptivity

• Rose quartz, rhodonite, peach moonstone, emerald, green aventurine, malachite, carnelian, or copper

Venus altar

Spellcast: A Venus spell for remembering

A spell designed to awaken the deep, sensual knowing of belonging.

Note: The spell below is just a suggestion. If you are depleted, under-resourced, ill, or an exhausted caregiver, it’s okay to just eat the fruit, buy yourself flowers, or take a bath—ritual is yours.

What you’ll need:

• Mirror (handheld if possible)

• Candle in gold, honey, or blush

• Ripe fruit (fig, peach, or orange—something soft and juicy)

• Bowl of water with flower petals or sea salt

• Stone of Venus (see list above)

• Token of beauty (jewelry, silk scarf, rose)

• A song or playlist that makes you feel magnetic

Spell invitation

1. Create an altar with the ideas above and/or create sacred space

2. Spend time journaling. Hold these questions in your shell of transformation:

   1. Where do you feel guilt or jealousy about expansion, abundance, and luxury (for yourself or others)? What subconcious beliefs need reframing?

   2. What would it feel like to stop proving your worth and start living it?

   3. What grains of sand are ready to become pearls of wisdom? What friction is ready to release?

2. Bathe your hands and face with the floral water. Cup the bowl gently and say:

   1. With this water, I anoint the gates of my seeing and receiving.

3. Light your candle and whisper your invocation:

   1. Kallisti, to the fairest. Venus, I call you in, not as goddess above, but as the glow within. Come dress me in remembering.

4. Gaze into the mirror and meet your own eyes. Speak aloud:

   1. I am radiant. I am becoming. I am already worthy.

   2. Then say: Beauty lives in my breath. Love lives in my bones. I am a vessel of sacred pleasure.

5. Slice the fruit open. Let its scent rise. Touch its surface. Notice the texture. Eat it slowly, without distraction. Feel sweetness move through your body like an incantation.

6. Take your Venusian stone or token of beauty. Trace it lightly over your collarbones, heart, and lips. Say:

   1. This skin is not decoration: it is divinity. This body is not proof: it is prayer.

7. Sit before your altar. Breathe. Close your eyes and speak:

   1. I do not need to be seen to shine. I do not need to be chosen to be whole. I am already home.

8. End with this offering of presence: Kiss the mirror. Place your stone or fruit peel on the altar. Leave your candle burning (if safe) until it extinguishes.