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#387-"The Sheer Inevitability of Wings"-Week of October 19, 2026
Sunday, 18 October, 2026
On the Hook in the UnderworldShe is gone.Venus has descended into the sun's glare and disappeared from the evening sky. For ten days the Relational Alchemist is in the underworld, invisible. If you have been feeling something stripped or raw or suspended between who you were and who you are not yet, that is not a personal failing. That is the myth you are aligned with living inside. That is the season doing its exact and necessary work.The Week as Mythic Journey:Monday, October 19: Venus squares Pluto and descends into the underworld.One final confrontation with the Transformer before she becomes invisible, everything the retrograde has been working concentrated into a single threshold crossing. Monday night she disappears. The sky is different. The relational field is different. The Relational Alchemist is below.Wednesday, October 21: Sun in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries.Midway through the descent, an honest illumination. What has been excluded from genuine belonging? What has the relational self been carrying in silence? Sun opposite Chiron does not resolve the wound. But it shows it clearly. Let yourself see what is being shown. This is one of the gates of the underworld process.Friday, October 23: Sun enters Scorpio and conjuncts Venus retrograde (the inferior conjunction). The new Venus cycle begins.This is the sacred center of the week. Venus between Earth and Sun, invisible in the solar fire, held in the heart of the light. In the Inanna myth this is the moment she hangs on the hook, neither alive nor dead, neither the old self nor the new. The death and the birth in the same breath, where Sun and Venus conjoin at 0 degrees of Scorpio, the precise threshold where endings and beginnings meet.If you have been doing genuine interior work this retrograde season, today you are at the seed point. Something is dying that needed to die. Something is being seeded that you cannot yet see. Trust what is being planted in the dark, even when you cannot feel it yet.Saturday, October 24: Mercury turns retrograde at 21 degrees of Scorpio, remaining retrograde until November 13.The Truth-teller follows the Relational Alchemist into the underworld. With both Venus and Mercury retrograde in Scorpio simultaneously, the field is asking unambiguously for interior focus. Slow the decisions. Let the charged communications breathe. What has the mind been moving around rather than through?Here is something worth holding that is coming. On November 13, Friday the 13th, both Venus and Mercury turn direct on the same day. The Relational Alchemist emerging from the underworld, alongside Mercury carrying his ancient face as Hermes, conductor of souls, god of the crossroads, the one who guides what has been in the depths back into the light. Both turning direct on a day dominator culture has long projected darkness onto. Friday the 13th carries the ancient fingerprints of the feminine, named for Freya, goddess of love and wisdom, the number thirteen belonging to the lunar calendar and the cycles of the feminine body. That Venus rises and Hermes guides her home on that day feels less like coincidence and more like the myth completing itself with intention.Sunday, October 25: Venus retrograde re-enters Libra. Full Moon at 3 degrees of Taurus squaring Pluto and opposing Venus retrograde.Venus is still invisible, still in the underworld, but she has crossed back into her home sign and is beginning the long movement toward her eventual rising.The Full Moon in Taurus (the earth, the body, embodied worthiness ) illuminates all of it. Squaring Pluto, opposing Venus retrograde, the body receiving what the underworld has been working. Feel it in the belly, the chest, the weight of the jaw. What has loosened? What is the body carrying differently than a month ago? You do not need to understand it. Let the body feel it.Reflection QuestionsAt the inferior conjunction (the seed point of the new Venus cycle) what in your relational life has genuinely completed, even if you did not choose it?The Full Moon in Taurus asks your body to receive what the underworld has been working. What does your body know about what has shifted in you during this descent?In the suspension between Venus as Evening Star and Morning Star, what are you being asked to trust in the dark, before the rising, before you can see what the new cycle is carrying?Podcast poem: In Impossible Darkness by Kim RosenSupport the showGo to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.comThis episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.
