The Venus of Laussel and the timeless pulse of Astrology
Venus of Laussel
Encountering the Venus of Laussel
Long before astrology was written down, the Venus of Laussel was already whispering its rhythms. Carved more than 20,000 years ago into a cave wall in southern France, this faceless limestone figure struck me with a force I hadn’t expected.
In an instant I was pulled into a vacuum, as if 13.8 billion years collapsed inward. A Big Bang in reverse. Instead of matter exploding outward, everything folded back into a primordial ocean of im-pulse. For a moment, I floated in it — stripped of thought, stripped of conditioning, reduced to a raw awareness that was both terrifying and profoundly familiar.
From Silence to Sound
At first the experience left me speechless. Then came sound — my own voice, rising from a place deeper than intellect. It wasn’t thought shaping words but resonance shaping me. Where before my mind had scrambled across synaptic highways, now there was instant connection: simple, immediate, unshakable.
What emerged was a sense of instinctual unity. A connectivity that didn’t need to be earned or explained — it simply was. And with it, a lifelong longing I hadn’t known I carried was suddenly answered. It felt like a tiny stream finally freed, flowing home to the vast ocean. I teared up. Not tears of joy or sorrow but tears of truth.
Symbols of Creation and Cosmic Cycles
When I returned to the figure itself, I saw more than stone. The faceless body with its exaggerated curves, the right hand lifting a horn marked with 13 notches, the left hand resting on the belly — it was a map. The 13 notches echoed the 13 moons of the year. The hand on the belly pointed to the body as cave, sheltering the menstrual cycle corresponding with the Moon and month, the rhythms that shape both creation and renewal.
This image held what astrology has always sought: not prediction, but pattern. Not fate, but rhythm.
A German Astrologer’s Lesson
Thomas Ring
Thomas Ring, the German astrologer whose writings on revised astrology led me to this discovery, often reminded his students: Am Anfang ist alles da — “At the beginning, everything is there.” Watching his old lectures felt like a cosmic treasure hunt, and even through grainy video I saw him bring the charts to life by hand: a blank sheet, the slow, circular movement of his pen outlining the chart, adding each planetary position, tracing each line with care. The act became a ritual — a visible meditation on wholeness, echoing the mythical rhythm of the Nibelungen, a subtle resonance that seemed to honor both tradition and progression, reminding us that everything is present even before a single mark is made.
Ring resisted fatalistic astrology. Instead, he invited a view of potential: if–then, cause and effect, each person equally close to their purpose. The Venus of Laussel felt like that teaching in stone — a reminder that our beginnings are eternal and still alive inside us. It’s this same lesson that leads us back to the fertile ground within ourselves.
Returning to the Fertile Place Within
The Venus of Laussel is faceless, and in that absence of identity lies her gift. She doesn’t dictate who we must become — she mirrors the possibility of becoming. In her form, creation and cycles are synthesized into a Divine rhythm that grants each of us permission to individuate, to express our uniqueness while still rooted in unity.
This is the fertile place inside each of us. Astrology, when practiced as a living language of cycles, helps us recognize the rhythm that is beneath all of creation. Each chart, a sacred composition, becomes a unique fractal of this rhythm, echoing the whole in its own beauty and diversity.
To work with astrology in this way is to return, again and again, to that fertile ground — to see that your chart isn’t a map of limitation, but of possibility, a gift of life itself. Like the river trusting the riverbed, it holds you steady while inviting you toward your most authentic expression.
Take a moment and let your breath carry you back to the fertile ground within, to the gift of life and its eternal beginnings, full of boundless possibility. Let your mind imagine: what wants to be expressed through you, right here, right now? Fearlessly embrace whatever arises.