Welcome to Holes to Heavens. I Adam Summer shall be your guide for the next hour or so. Enjoy. That there's the new intro. That's a bit of a tradition I suppose to record a

brand new intro every Venus retrograde now even though she is not yet retrograde the

pre-shadow has begun and so it comes from a Ben Howard track called She Treats Me Well from an album called I

Forgot Where We Were. And way back in 2015, the last time Venus was here in this part of her cycle, the last time Venus was retrograde and Leo.

That album was a big part of the soundtrack of that period and if you've been listening to the show since then you remember that's when I moved to the San Luis Valley

I had that Airbnb I was working at the hot spring given readings in the greenhouse, that chapter.

Ben Howard was a big part of it.

Also, I was reading Martin Shaw's scatterlings

at that time.

I very clearly remember always having that book on the table.

Now at the time I had no plans to really ever visit England let alone

Devon and Dartmouth more and then move here, but here I am eight years later.

And Ben and Martin growing up here, I tend to understand their work a little bit better being here.

And actually Ben just released a new album too if you're interested.

It's quite different than his older stuff, but I still could appreciate it and anyway full circle

full stars and a new spirit to infuse at the beginning of each of these podcasts. This one I've done so many

podcasts on the Venus cycle and this one I kind of want to keep with the spirit of it just

kind of exploring a bit of the skeleton of the whole cycle and understanding how

we can glean some very important information from her as she leaves the evening sky and

appears in the east and perhaps a few other insights we can glean from fairy tale, from some ancient

calendrix, for example, the Babylonian king from 747, B.C.

Nabunassir, who adopted a Venus calendar.

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