A Sumerian Goddess of love and war, Inanna was a dualistic energy capable of both great beauty and great violence.
As one of the most well-known goddesses of Ancient Mesopotamia, Inanna was known by many names (Ishtar, Astarte, “Queen of Heaven) and worshipped far across the lands. She was the swift-changing tides of fate and fortune—the powerful yet quick-moving influence invoked for all manners of success.
While many saw her as a force of opposing energies, Inanna was simply two sides of the same coin—her sex and vengeance, her beauty and destruction, were all held by the same ancient root.
She was both the great ferocity of a warrior and the great fertility of a lover.
The rage of a spurned heart and the romance of a new beginning.
Inanna was the great depth and feeling in all corners of life.
Naturally, Inanna’s popularity and prowess made her the focus of many ancient poems and stories—with one of the most famous being her deadly descent into the Underworld. It is through this story in particular that we see the full depths of Inanna’s heart—for the Queen of Heaven was willing to strip away all that she was in order to enter the gates of hell to comfort her newly widowed sister. In this we see how deep Inanna’s love goes—how strong her feeling, how true her conviction.
But it is important to remember that Inanna was love as she was hate. In different stories we meet this other side of Inanna—the side that truly gives meaning to the phrase of, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” For it is here that we see the greatest depths of Inanna’s capacity for violence and vengeance—for the deeply charged actions of a heart hurt by betrayal.
You see, Inanna was not a meek being who offered her neck to the wolf’s mouth.
But nor was she a harsh being unmoved by the arresting beauty of love and sex.
Inanna was the truest embodiment of all experiences in life—the fertile and the furious, the loving and the lustful, the ecstatic and enraged.
Inanna was truly the Goddess of light and dark—the great embodiment that brought opposites into wholeness.
What does Inanna rule?
Ruler of: love, beauty, fertility, desire, sex, justice, vengeance, war
Associated with: lions, the eight-pointed star
Why would one call upon Inanna?
- To help you tap into your deepest wells of strength, courage, and feeling to tackle any challenge you’re faced with.
- To help you get deeply in-touch with the parts of you that you may shy away from (your sex, your rage, your beauty, your destruction).
- To help you tap into the full range of your femininity
- To help bring you success in the areas of romance and revenge
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