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#386-"Leave Everything You Know Behind”--Week of October 12, 2026
Sunday, 11 October, 2026
Inanna at the GateThere is an ancient story that belongs to this week.Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, descends into the underworld voluntarily. She dresses in her full regalia, everything that marks her power and identity, and descends through seven gates. At each gate she is asked to surrender something. She arrives at the bottom naked and bowed low before Ereshkigal, her dark sister, the Queen of the Great Below. The one who was sent underground so Inanna could reign above.Ereshkigal is not evil. She is the grief that was never held. The rage that was never witnessed. The abandoned feminine who became the underworld because the upper world could not contain her.Inanna descends not to conquer her dark sister. She descends to face her. To complete something in herself that cannot be completed in the light.This is the myth of this week. And of the weeks immediately ahead. Because on October 19, Venus will literally disappear from the sky, descending into the sun's glare, invisible for ten days. The Relational Alchemist entering the underworld in the literal heavens above us.This week we stand at the upper gates. We can feel the descent approaching.A Note — Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday October 12: A "national holiday" that was changed from celebrating Columbus, a colonial extractor. The original peoples of this land have been the Ereshkigal of this continent's dominant narrative, invisibilized, excluded, locked in the underworld of collective acknowledgment so the colonizer story could reign above. Indigenous Peoples Day is a small but genuine movement at the gate. A turning toward what has been sent below. The mythic field making itself visible through the calendar.Key Cycles This Week:Thursday, October 15: Sun in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo. Pluto turns direct at 3 degrees of Aquarius.The Sun-Jupiter sextile is a genuine gift, warmth, beauty, generous connection before the descent deepens. Let it land. Let yourself be in genuine contact with others today.Pluto turns direct after being retrograde since early May. The entire extraordinary summer happened with Pluto moving inward. Now the Transformer begins moving forward again — what has been composted in the collective depths through these months begins finding outward expression. As Venus approaches the underworld gate, Pluto begins its outward movement. The inner descent and the outer restructuring are two movements of the same alchemical process.Friday, October 16: Mars in Leo trines Saturn in Aries.The creative fire finds easy alignment with the Structurer. Grounded commitment. The structural holding that makes genuine descent possible without becoming dissolution. Inanna's story would not end in emergence if there were not those in the upper world who held the thread and ground. This trine is that thread.What Is Approaching — The Gate: On October 19, Venus disappears into the sun's glare. For ten days the Relational Alchemist is in the underworld, literally unseeable. She will conjunct the Sun at 0 degrees of Scorpio, the formal threshold between Evening Star and Morning Star, but will not be seen in that crossing. She emerges October 29 at her Heliacal rising, visible once more as a Morning Star. Bright. Transformed.These ten days ask something specific. Attend to what has been excluded. What relational truth has been locked away? What self-worth pattern has been operating beneath the surface? What unfinished business around love, genuine belonging, or what has been sent below is asking for honest attention?This week is the preparation. What are you bringing with you into the underworld?Reflection QuestionsAs you stand at the upper gates of Inanna's descent, what are you still carrying that may need to be surrendered before you reach the bottom?As Pluto turns direct, what has genuinely shifted in you through these extraordinary months that is ready to find more outward expression?As Venus approaches her literal underworld descent on October 19, what unfinished relational business is asking for your honest attention in the ten days ahead?Podcast poem: Tilicho Lake by David WhyteSupport 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.
