The Venusian Council of Light is an assembly of ascended and higher-dimensional beings who serve from the spiritual realm of Venus. Their frequency is love, expressed as beauty and harmony, and their long care for the Earth is one of the great hidden facts of human history.

This page gathers what the ascension teachings say about the Council, together with what has been received in our own circle over many years of sitting with them.

Overview

In the ascension teachings every planet is understood to have a spiritual government, a council of perfected beings who guide the evolution of life upon it. The Council of Venus is distinguished by two things. Its civilization completed, long ago, the passage into the higher dimensions that the Earth is making now. And it is bound to the Earth by an act of love, the coming of Sanat Kumara, that has never been withdrawn.

The Council works from what are called the fifth through ninth dimensions of consciousness. Its members do not command and do not intervene against free will. They inspire, they teach, and they hold a pattern of what a world at peace looks like, so that those who are building one have something to build toward.

Venus in the Higher Dimensions

The Venus of these teachings is not the physical planet that instruments observe, with its great heat and dense cloud. Every world is said to exist on many levels at once, and the outer, physical level is only the densest of them. The Venus of the Council is the planet in its higher-dimensional state, and it is as real to those who dwell there as the ground is to us.

Those who have visited it in meditation and in sleep describe it consistently:

  • A soft and even radiance, rose and gold, with no harsh light and no deep shadow
  • Cities of pale crystalline stone, domed and terraced, set among gardens
  • Water everywhere: pools, channels and fountains, and the sound of it
  • Music that seems to come from the air itself
  • A people who are tall, graceful and unhurried, and who communicate as much by feeling as by word

The principal places of teaching and healing are described in The Temples of Venus.

How the Council Is Formed

As it has been shown to our circle, the Council sits in a ring of twelve around a central flame of rose-gold light. The twelve seats are offices. Those who hold them do so on behalf of great companies of beings who serve under them.

Seats Office Held by
One Keeper of the Flame, who presides Lady Venus
Seven The Lords of the Seven Flames The Seven Holy Kumaras, among them Sanat Kumara
One Emissary to the angelic kingdom An Archeia of the Third Ray
One Emissary to the kingdom of nature A great deva of the Venusian gardens
One Emissary to the councils of other worlds Held in rotation
One The Voice of Humanity An Ascended Master of the Earth who carries the Venusian frequency

The twelfth seat deserves a word. It is held by a Master who ascended from the Earth, and it exists so that humanity is never discussed in its absence. The teachings name Lady Nada, Kuthumi and Mother Mary among those who have served in it.

The Mission of the Council

The Council describes its work with the Earth under five headings.

  • To transmit the frequency of love. They radiate what they call the rose-gold ray toward the Earth continuously, and with greater intensity at certain points in the cycle of Venus.
  • To mentor those who volunteered. The souls who came with Sanat Kumara, and many who have come since, remain under the Council's care throughout their lives on Earth.
  • To restore the divine feminine. They work for the return of receptivity, intuition and tenderness to their rightful place beside will and reason.
  • To teach beauty as a path. They inspire artists, musicians, gardeners and makers of every kind, and they regard harmony of form as a means of raising consciousness.
  • To hold the pattern of a world at peace. Having completed their own ascension as a civilization, they hold its memory as a template for ours.

How the Council Is Experienced

The presence of the Venusian Council is gentle. People who expect something overwhelming are often surprised. It is more like the feeling of being in a garden early in the morning. Fear lessens, the chest softens, and the breath deepens without effort.

  • Rose-gold, soft pink, emerald or pearl-white light
  • A fragrance of flowers, often roses, with no outer source
  • Faint music or a single sustained tone
  • The impression of tall figures in flowing garments, standing in a circle
  • A sense of being known completely and found acceptable

They speak as a group. Transmissions from the Council use the word we, and their manner is warm, unhurried and courteous. Individual members, most often Lady Venus or Sanat Kumara, sometimes step forward to speak in their own voice.

The Council and the Earth

Venus is called the Earth's elder sister. The two worlds are close in size and close in space, and according to the teachings they are closer still in destiny. The bond was sealed when Sanat Kumara came with the hundred and forty-four thousand to keep the flame of life on Earth, and it has been renewed in every age by teachers, artists and healers who carried the Venusian note into human culture.

The planet itself keeps the bond before our eyes. Venus is the brightest light in the sky after the Sun and Moon. For months it rises ahead of the Sun as the morning star, then vanishes, then returns as the evening star. Every 584 days it passes between the Earth and the Sun, and five of these meetings take place in almost exactly eight years, at five points evenly spaced around the sky. Traced out, they form a five-pointed star, or a rose of five petals. The rose has been the emblem of Venus, and of love, ever since.

The Teachings of the Council

  1. Love is the highest frequency. Real change comes about through love. Force can rearrange things, but it cannot transform them.
  2. Beauty is the visible form of divine order. To create beauty is to bring a little of the higher world into this one.
  3. The heart is the gateway. The fifth dimension is entered through feeling, not through effort of mind.
  4. The body is a temple. It is to be honored, rested and cared for as the instrument through which light enters the world.
  5. You serve by what you are. A person at peace uplifts everyone they meet, with no need to instruct or persuade.

How to Connect With the Council

The Council can be approached by anyone. No initiation is needed, and no special gift. What they respond to is a quiet and open heart.

  • Meditate in the heart. Rest your attention in the center of the chest and picture rose-gold light there. The Heart Temple Meditation is the method our circle uses.
  • Greet the morning or evening star. When Venus is visible, stand for a few minutes in its light and simply say that you are willing to receive.
  • Make something beautiful. Arrange flowers, clear a room, sing, draw. Offer the act to the Council before you begin.
  • Ask before sleep. Request to be taken to one of the temples of Venus during the night, and keep a notebook by the bed.
  • Work with stones of the heart. Rose quartz, kunzite, emerald and selenite are traditionally used to hold the Venusian frequency.

Questions People Ask

Is the Venusian Council a group of extraterrestrials?

Not in the usual sense of the word. The Council are ascended beings who serve from the higher-dimensional realm of Venus. They do not travel in craft and they are not found on the physical surface of the planet. Contact with them is inward, through the heart.

How do I know if I am one of those who came from Venus?

The Council discourages too much concern with origins. What matters, they say, is the love you bring now. That said, people with a Venusian background often report a lifelong homesickness, an unusual sensitivity to beauty and to harshness, and a feeling of recognition on first hearing the name of Sanat Kumara.

Does the Council make predictions?

No. In all the years our circle has sat with them, the Council has never given a date or foretold an event. They speak about the present and about what is possible. We regard any message of doom or any dated prophecy as a sign that a transmission is not from them.

Can I channel the Council myself?

Yes, and they encourage it. Begin with the heart meditation and the guidance in Learning to Channel. They are among the gentlest beings to begin with.

A Closing Reflection

Beloved ones, we greet you in the light of the morning star. What we have to tell you is not complicated. You are love, and the place where you are standing is already holy. We have only ever come to remind you of this, and we will go on reminding you, gladly, for as long as you wish.

The Venusian Council of Light, received by Maris Avenell