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
Radiant Self-Love: When Love Is Liberation/ Full Moon in Leo & Venus in Aquarius
Under this luminous Full Moon in Leo on February 1st, we’re invited to return to a deeper, truer experience of self-love — not as something we earn or perform, but as something we emanate.
This episode explores love as a living, embodied frequency rather than an act of self-sacrifice. With Venus traveling through Aquarius, a powerful reframe comes online:
My love is liberation.
Together, Leo and Aquarius remind us that joy is not the reward for giving — it is the source from which authentic love flows.
In this episode, we explore:
- How so many women were conditioned to equate love with depletion
- Why midlife often marks a sacred turning point where over-giving no longer works
- The heart and breasts as powerful, energetic centers of embodied love
- Why eros and pleasure are essential nutrients for a radiant, spacious heart
- How ancient priestess wisdom honored sensuality as sacred power
- A gentle, fully PG Tantric breast and heart meditation to reconnect you to your inner source
When eros, heart, and pleasure are integrated, love becomes expansive rather than draining — a natural offering rather than a sacrifice.
This Full Moon is not asking you to shine harder.
It’s asking you to shine freer.
🌹 Embodiment Practice Included
This episode features a short, gentle PG Tantric Breast & Heart Meditation designed to:
- Nourish the heart
- Restore a sense of safety and warmth in the body
- Reconnect love with pleasure rather than obligation
This practice can be done fully clothed, seated or lying down, and is always invitational.
🐍 Ancient Lineage Remembered
We also touch on ancient goddess cultures, including the wisdom embodied by priestess traditions, where exposed breasts symbolized life force, nourishment, and sacred power — not performance, but presence.
This is not something new we are learning.
It is ancient wisdom we are remembering through the body.
So many of us were taught that love requires depletion.
This lunation offers a different truth.
Happy Full Moon, love.
Let's dive in.
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