I’ve created a life that is peaceful and overflowing with curiosity-satisfying adventures and enriching relationships. I love my life!

What my life doesn’t include is angst-creating, turmoil-provoking people or events. But even if I’m subjected to these types of influences, I’m able to remain centered and maintain an existence of calm laced with joy.

I admit I haven’t always been this way.

I recently spoke with a good friend who said she was feeling very unfeminine and it was causing her great concern. She's attractive, has a beautiful, strong body, a good style of dress, and a powerful personality. She said her new roommate is petite and soft-spoken, and wears skirts and flowey blouses. Comparing herself to her roommate, my friend felt ungainly and clunky. She perceived her diminutive roommate as the perfect example of feminine. I asked my friend, “do you feel masculine?” “Not really,” she replied. “Just not feminine.”

Hmmmm. What is this concept of feminine?

Rise of Venus comes at a good time for women. During this era of the Me Too and Times Up Movements, women are becoming stronger, courageous and more demanding of respect. They feel empowered through sisterhood and the support of families, colleagues, even total strangers

Rise of Venus focuses on a vitally important aspect of women’s empowerment – spirituality. Particularly women’s spirituality. Now I believe, in general, spirituality is a source of strength, inspiration and self-love. Yet women’s spirituality provides more female-focused form of connection with the Divine.