Goddess Counselling

21/12/2025

12/12/2025

All dressed up to film my solo for the online show in Feb 2026.

It was raining in the Lake District (shock) and we filmed by derwentwater. We drew a few odd looks and a couple of comments about my white skirt being caked in mud!

Annie Lennox's words have been ringing in my head since the early 90s when I was an intense teenager. Glad to get them into dance now🌹

🥀 Once I had a rarest rose
That ever deigned to bloom
Cruel winter chilled the bud
And stole my flower too soon ....🥀

I'll add a link for the online show when it comes out ❤️

lovesongforavampire

30/11/2025

A few winter pics from cold, sunny Leicester over the last few days.

Ayelstone meadows had it's best face on with beautiful sunlight, clear waters, serene swans and balls of mistletoe.

The waxing Aries moon has already risen today as the sun sinks.

And Stoney Cove is sinking a train into the quarry, which I am very much excited by 😁 (I'm a lover of old trains and of outdoor swimming)

Happy winter for those of us in the northern hemisphere as we slowly make our way to the Solstice.

16/11/2025

I love colouring books. I've been slowly doing this one for about 8 years now.

It helps me sit still through long films and online meetings. It also helps me practice shading and using watercolour pencils techniques.

This one is part of an 'art for mindfulness' series, which has short quotes on the opposite page. The one for the first photo is:

'A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.'

Anybody else a fan of colouring books? Or wish you could get into them?

10/11/2025

This little cluster of 3 trees is in a somewhat mundane area in Leicester. I have been visiting them since I moved to the area in 2004.

I've come to think of them as the 3 sisters, or the 3 witches. I found them when I felt lost in a career that didn't suit me and have been back to visit in a variety of states. I now greet them with more casual familiarity.

They're always welcoming and have much knowledge to share, with occasional sharp wit and reprimand.

It occurred to me that I'd never sketched them, so these pictures are a prelude to that.

The 3rd pic tries to capture the snug feeling of standing within their circle and looking up. The 4th pic gave me the impression they were holding hands.

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31/10/2025

I'm taking the opportunity of the time of year to cleanse some spiritual tools that I use. It's a good 'dark' time of year ritual, now we're entering the winter months here in the UK at Samhain.

The sword or athame you see in the picture is partly to symbolise the air element - clarity, communication.

For me, this particular 'wavy blade' or 'flame blade' appeared to me in a dream. I hadn't know they existed before. I had been telling a friend about the dream and it turns out they had one! It has much associated symbolism but my favourite is the serpentine kind - of change, divination, early dark Goddesses and truth telling.

The other item is a carved stone brought back from Peru with a moon engraved on it. They are called 'kuyas chumpi' and are used to work energetically with the body. In my case, I use it for female, lunar, hidden energies.

The charging plate they're resting on is selenite crystal.

What're your Samhain rituals this year?

Wishing you a shadowy Samhain 🖤🩶🤍

24/10/2025

I went to the pub for sketching and wine with a friend 🧡

I was struck by the beauty and sadness of the final rose before the cold weather started to turn it.

I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out, I think I might be learning something finally 🙃

It's watercolour pencils on paper.

13/10/2025

Autumn leaf prints with water-based ink 🍂🍁🍃

It's a lovely witchy activity for this time of year - walking around that park looking for complete dryish leaves ... getting the inks out ... covering the leaf in ink then rubbing it on the back with a spoon.

I then touched it up with a bit of dark grey pen ink.

I'm slowly trying to fill the multimedia sketch book that I bought in lockdown! 🙃 and of course continue my tree obsession..

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28/09/2025

Listening to long Meg's wisdom.

She tells me that she knows how to keep my feet anchored to earth, stop me flying away. She made a long, dark plait of hair, deep into the ground.

She spoke to me with the voice of a grandmother, clear and firm and loving.

Long Meg and her daughters, is a stone circle near Penrith in Cumbria. Legend has it that a bad man cast a spell, but she had the last laugh - enduring for more than 5000 years and counting.

23/09/2025

There's just a couple more spaces available for my Dark Side of the Moon,' workshop hosted by

It's part of Tariki's ecotherapy course and open to any interested individuals.

It'll be the usual tarot, witchy, shamanic, therapeutic moon fest, with an emphasis on her darker aspects.

It's 1-4pm BST online, next Thurs 2nd Oct. You can sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-with-charlotte-venkatraman-tickets-1098000863139?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

The link is also in my insta profile. Or you're welcome to contact for more information.

Hopefully see you there 🌛🌑🌜

The hand pic is by

03/09/2025

Athene is the Goddess I very first worked with and who i consider my Patron Goddess.

She's skilled in diplomacy, crafts, and magic. She's straight clear in her speech. When she has righteous anger, she shakes her spear to bring justice!

Athene's Spear is the name of my newsletter, which I send out quarterly around September, December, March, and June.

It includes information on upcoming workshops, reviews of magickal books, or simple nature magick spells.

You can sign up on my website at www.goddesscounselling.com

27/08/2025

I got one of my poems published 😁

produced an anthology called 'In Praise of Despair' amongst many other interesting offerings.

I was given a 5 year memory book by a lovely friend a couple of years ago, in which I started writing a haiku a day to remember the themes.

They talk about my cat, the weather, shifting moods, loneliness, joy, spiritual connection...

I put some together to talk about mental health journeys, and 'Recovery' was chosen. It's a hopeful few lines about the stepwise return of faculties after an episode of poor mental health. Also, the jewels that can be gathered in darkness.

The book is available on Amazon under 'Beyond the Veil Press'