Meet Vanessa Tiegs
Former ballerina & coach, licensed Getty Images photographer, karmic astrologer & Founder of Your Venus Geist.
Welcome! I'm often asked what Venus Geist means and how I got the name. Vanessa Tiegs translates to Venus Geist. Tiegs is the anagram of German Geist, meaning intellectual spirit, genius & ghost. Van-ESSA (of essence) is the alternate spelling of Venus, the Sacred Feminine essence represented by goddesses worldwide.
Who I Am & How I Became A Virtual Fine Art Photographer Combining Karmic Astrology, Mythology & Feminine Archetypal Psychology
with AI Enhancement
When I was 10 years old, my father had a dark room in our home. I've been a photographer throughout my life. When I opened my art studio in 2010, I committed to 365 continuous days of photographing my pedigree Golden Retriever Sunshine Always Miss Vivi Gold, who graced Earth from Summer Solstice 2009 to Boxing Day 2020. Vivi stands for joy of life, La Joie de Vivre, for whom I named her. I published Vivi's book the following year in 2011. Its preface reads: Full of the joys of life, Vivi, the golden retriever, reminds us that pure joy resides in some of life's daily routines, or simply sweet dreaming, or dressing up to the nines, or, above all, being free outdoors. Vivi was a prototype of Your Venus Geist.
Many of my photos of Vivi became licensed by Getty Images, Avanti Press, and other international press companies. My series, "Vivi's Ballerina Dreams," are famous in South Africa (Cape Town, Durban & Johannesburg) as the campaigning posters for the not-for-profit organization, Dancers Love Dogs. A true labor of love, they have achieved nearly 23,000 sterilizations for shelters since their foundation in 2012 by Brigitte Reeve-Taylor. The photo series features the pointe shoes that Gelsey Kirkland, personally gave to me as a gift when I was 10 years old. Gelsey had worn these pointe shoes in her 1979 performance of La Sylphide at Lincoln Center with American Ballet Theatre. The audience gave her a standing ovation for over 35 minutes, stomping their feet & crying Encore! Bravo! while throwing red roses at her feet.
THE BALLET WORLD 1972-1985
My creative career began at age 15 when I joined the Zurich Ballet of Switzerland. I performed on world-class stages Kennedy Center & Metropolitan Opera House, with Russian legend, Rudolf Nureyev, in 1983, after 5-years of training at the American Ballet Theatre School in NYC on full merit scholarship from age 10.
I love to coach & photograph ballerinas, like this young dancer before she joined the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet in New York. I created her virtual Venus Geist portrait using one of the audition headshots that I took of her in my studio.
The Eternally Sacred Feminine
My multi-media artwork from 2012, composed of the 2002 Menstrala, "La Curvia," with fine art photographs of me by Steven J. Geldberg.
Before AI and virtual augmentation, I was a performance artist, classical pianist, calligrapher, photographer, designer & astrological spiritual advisor (privately taught by the Master Karmic Astrologer, Zsuzsanna Griga).
In 1989, I earned my B.A. in Architectural History from Smith College with Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa and moved to The Netherlands. Throughout the 90's decade, I visited archaeological sites, studied Neolithic symbolism, Hellenistic, Evolutionary & Karmic astrology, and learned mythology. In 2000, I departed Europe for San Francisco to earn my Master's Degree in Women's Spirituality, which I began teaching in 2001. During the past two decades, I began mixing photos of Menstrala, with self-portraits, thus creating my earliest multi-media astro-bio-mythological artworks.
P E R S E P H O N E
Queen of the Underworld
I founded Your Venus Geist to utilize AI programming with my photography experience, artistry & knowledge of astrology, mythology & feminine archetypal psychology.
My first AI generated image illustrated my very first dream with Vivi.
Most of us wonder the meanings of our dreams but rarely is importance given to them. We may see versions of our Self that are not recognizable and don't feel like our Self. The face of the sacred feminine has been splintered in our collective unconscious, symbolized by shooting stars and "daimons of fate" spiraling through the asteroid belt between Mars & Jupiter, as well the trans-Neptunian Objects orbiting farthest away from Earth. When these splintered feminine archetypes enter our consciousness, we may project them as our natural expression of Venus. Every archetype we imagine helps comprise our consciousness. As we project our Venus Geist, which is the unified energy of splintered feminine archetypes, we give our life meaning to our relationships & values.
When I learned from my Karmic astrology teacher that the trans-Neptunian Object named Sedna is exactly on my North Node conjunct my Descendant, I recognized my childhood underwater dream. Around 2011, I recreated my dream of Sedna to explore her complex dignity of creating through dissection. In Sedna's myth, her father cuts off her fingers, she sinks to the bottom of the ocean, and out of loneliness she creates sea creatures from her truncated fingers. In my painting, "From the Fingers of Sedna," I incorporated The Genesis of Menstrala: Silverfish Spirits. When I combine Karmic astrology with my artistry & AI programming skills, my gift is an intuitive interpretation of Your Venus Geist.
Today, I lead my clients on very detail-oriented vision quests by incorporating their karmic astrology into their virtual photographs.
It is gratifying hearing them rave with amazement when they recognize their soul visage under a completely unexpected new light.
Now, more than ever, human artistic perception, archetypal knowledge, mythology & astrology play a crucial role in the creative process as humanity utilizes AI.
I recently was interviewed and discussed this in conversations.
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