Greetings & Welcome!
I'm often asked what Venus Geist means and how I came up with this name.
Point of fact, Venus Geist is a translation of my full name: Van-Essa is an alternate spelling of Venus, the essence of the Feminine within us and around us. Tiegs, my given last name, is the anagram of German Geist, a spirit, genius or ghost.
I was a performance artist during the first half of my life. My artistic career began at age 15 as the youngest corps de ballet member of The Zurich Ballet performing under the artistic direction of the world's greatest Russian ballet legend, Rudolf Nureyev, on world-class stages like the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center NY or the Kennedy Center in D.C., in numerous ballets: "Manfred," "Don Quixote," "Petrouchka," "Sleeping Beauty," "La Sylphide," and "La Conservatoire." I saw up close with my own eyes, the most demanding standards of ballet technique & artistry dedicated to storytelling the mythological undercurrents challenging humanity; the pursuit of spirituality at the highest cost - often one's life. Hence, ballet showed me the value of a life lived meaningfully & devotedly.
In my mid-teenage years, I performed classical piano while studying music theory to express my passion for romantic music by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Schubert & Brahms. By age 33, my Plutonic-Venusian virtuosity had led me to name & pioneer a new worldwide woman's art movement created from a medium considered to be a "socially suicidal no-no" - a notorious taboo. Because I no longer could mold art with my body (I fractured my vertebrae L1-S5 attempting to dance again), I found inspiration in painting a dance of the spirit of the plasma living in my blood and called it my Spiraling Moon Livejournal of "Pain-Things" in 2000. The collection of 88 Menstrala fueled ad hominem attacks, memes & intense reactions from audiences whom I was not targeting. Nevertheless, my devotion to creating meaningful art recently led me to create virtual Venus Geist Portraits of women.
Photography Was An Early Calling
When I was a 10, my father had a dark room & showed me how he developed photographs from negatives the good old-fashioned way.
In 2010, I opened my own photography studio. Using a state of the art Digital SLR (the Canon EOS 7D), I committed to photographing my dog Vivi for 365 consecutive days. In the following year, 2011, I published her hardcover coffee table book, my labor of love & attention to what I found to be the purest joy - her playfulness in the age of innocence. Vivi was my soulmate. We lived to make joy, and thankfully I froze moments in time with her through thousands of photographic memories made public on Flickr's digital cloud.
Getty Images, Avanti Press, and a U.K. press licensed some of my photographs of Very Vivi.
By 2012, my photograph series, "Vivi's Ballerina Dream," became the campaign poster for Dancers Love Dogs, a not-for-profit organization in South Africa where dancers fund raise three times each year to sterilize homeless & sheltered dogs on the streets of Cape Town, Durban & Johannesburg. In the DLD photograph, I was wearing the ballet pointe shoe that was worn by Gelsey Kirkland in her 1976 performance of "La Sylphide" at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, New York.
I visited Ms. Kirkland in her dressing room after her performance. She generously gifted me her magical pair of pointe shoes. As a little girl aspiring to also become a ballerina, I said, "Thank you, Miss Kirkland, I promise, I'll take very good care of your pointe shoes." I saw a tear drop fall from her eye, but today, her gift keeps on giving. Her memento is part of an ongoing loving effort to help thousands of homeless dogs throughout South Africa.
My Passion For Dance Photography
My mother had been a ballet & a belly dancer. My childhood was immersed in dancing, acting, music &. performance life. With an eye for detail, I enjoyed photographing dancers I coached. One of my students joined the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet in New York, another joined the Kirov Ballet Academy.
Other Creative Pieces of My Life
I've also tried my hands at model building (interning at Robert A.M. Stern Architects & Skidmore Owings & Merrill in NYC before constructing & photographing my own set designs called Miniarcs). Another of my favorite self-taught subjects is the language of the star dome. I love the mythological stories rooted in astrology, and I will be forever fascinated by its wide-ranging schools of thought techniques. First, I learned Hellenistic Astrology during my 10 years of archaeologically inspired travels throughout Europe in the 90's. After returning to the States in 2000, I integrated Jeffrey Green's Evolutionary Astrology into my daily astrological practice. Then, in June 2012, during a Venus Occultation, I met my mentor, a Transcendental Karmic Astrologer, Zsuzsanna Griga, from Budapest. Now, in my free time, I am learning Vedic Astrology, which is helping me actualize my North Node, or Rahu, conjunct my Descendant, which emphasizes a double "axis of destiny." My interpretation of the Moon is not what we are taught. So, I invented Monthmatics, a new clock face that tells phasal time in our Saturn-Moon-Earth matrix. My invention places a person's life within the context of any chosen cycle. Now, ready to be coded into software, Monthmatics can teach anyone in real time, the energies of natal placements, transits, magnetic rays & lunar progressed cycles with the automated timestamps of the fixed protocol of the oldest blockchain network that scales unbounded - BSV TeraNode.
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Vanessa Tiegs, Masters of Women's Spirituality & Phi Beta Kappa Cum Laude
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