The Vital Goddess
Venusian Arts for the Modern & Mystical Woman.
Here we explore all things Venus; Beauty, Abundance, Sensuality, Sexuality, Pleasure, Love & Desire-Based Living.
I'm your host, Dianne Shepherd, certified holistic sexuality coach and wing woman for your Inner Venus!
I teach a unique approach to Taoist and Tantric practices to help you heal your relationship to your sensuality, reclaim your pleasure and tap into the creative life force of your sexual energy.
If you're ready to connect with your unique expression of the Goddess of Love,
Welcome to the Venusian Revolution!
The Vital Goddess
Sacred Integration: Strength, Softness & the Super Full Moon in Cancer
Happy New Year! 🎉
And Happy Full Moon in Cancer! 🌕♋
In this episode, we meet beneath the first Full Moon of the year (on January 3rd) , a luminous Super Full Moon in Cancer, to set a nourishing and sustainable tone for 2026.
Cancer invites us home — into the body, into feeling, into emotional intelligence that soothes us back into our rhythm.
With the Sun closely framed by Venus and Mars, this lunation offers rare support for weaving tenderness and strength, Yin and Yang, love and action into a more integrated way of living.
In this episode, I share a guiding philosophy for the year ahead that I call Sacred Integration — the devotion to honoring both structure and sensation, discipline and pleasure, fitness and sensuality as essential wellness allies rather than opposites.
I also offer a personal reflection on returning to a consistent fitness routine through the barre method while deepening my devotion to my Jade Egg practice, and how this balance has brought greater harmony to my body and nervous system in midlife.
You’ll be guided through a 10-minute ish embodiment ritual, designed to help you feel this integration in your body — grounding strength without force, softness without collapse — and to begin the year rooted in rhythm rather than extremes.
This episode is a reset.
A place to soften, breathe, and come home to your core and design the year ahead in aligment.
🌊 In This Episode
- Why the Cancer Super Full Moon is a powerful moment for homecoming
- How Venus and Mars working together support lasting wellness and intimacy
- Why wellness practices can become unwell when taken to extremes
- Sacred Integration as a new paradigm for midlife vitality
- A gentle Lunar Love embodiment ritual to anchor strength and softness
If this episode resonates and you’re longing for ongoing rhythm, embodiment, and support, the $99 Taste of the Temple offers a gentle initiation into the Vital Goddess Mastery — a space to explore Sacred Integration through breath, sensual self-care, and sisterhood.
With deep gratitude, I honor my barre teachers Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp, creators of Core Barre Fit.
Their pioneering work and devotion to intelligent strength, integrity, and longevity in the body have profoundly shaped how I relate to fitness and embodied wellness in midlife.
Learn more about their work here