All you need is Self Love

Let’s talk about love.
On their Magical Mystery Tour music catalog in 1967, the Beetles recorded a song that they titled ‘All you need is Love’. What kinda love were they talking about?
Venus is the planet of love and was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. She is known to be the hottest planet in our solar system. Her surface is covered by volcanoes, some of which are still active with long canals showing active lava flows. From an astrological viewpoint, Venus is known to confer love or material wealth, sometimes even both.

So what happens when Venus is a strong planet in your chart, perhaps exalted, your ascendant lord, or maybe your atmakaraka? Does that mean you get love or wealth or love and wealth? Do you see her effects in your life? For someone with a strong Venus, she is my Atmakaraka, I have been asking her for years, “what have you done for me lately?’ Her association with love was not working for me. Twice divorced and not in the least bit wealthy, I had her set for the butcher’s block.

Then I came upon the tea. Venus was asking me to love myself first and foremost. She warned me that I would never receive the love I seek until I am able to be that love to myself.
How many of us are seeking love outside ourselves, not filling our cup first before offering love to someone else?

We blame Venus for our current loveless situation. We blame our childhood, our traumatic past, the toxic relationships we keep in our lives, our children. We blame everyone but ourselves. Perhaps we feel undeserving, perhaps we were never taught to love, perhaps we held the belief that self-love was narcissistic and so we go through life attempting to offer love from an empty cup. We fail every time and then restart the cycle of blame.

Some of us boldly declare “I love myself”. But do we really?
Have we taken the time to deal with and heal our childhood wounds, our daddy issues?
Have we done the self-analysis and come upon the reasons why we remain in toxic ass relationships looking for a way but not really looking?
Do we wonder why that new car or hot chick is not enhancing our happiness, why we are so miserable?

Venus only gives when we are willing to receive and the love she gives first and foremost is self-love.