Beauty as Devotion
Day 2 of Coming Home: A 7-Day Devotional Journey to Beauty & Pleasure
It’s time you witness yourself in your raw beauty.
Not the plastic, manufactured societal beauty shoved in our faces, but the kind of beauty dripping with your true essence that can’t ever be replicated.
You were never meant to earn beauty. You were meant to embody it and experience it.
The feminine longs for beauty for a divine reason. It isn’t vanity and it isn’t superficial.
Attuning to the beauty frequency is equivalent to attuning to the present moment. It’s through our senses that we are able to fully experience the magic of the here and now. Returning to a devotional beauty practice is a ritual of remembrance. Living your life as prayer. As art.
It also just feels really fucking good.
And when did that stop being reason enough to do something?
We’ve been told that beauty is only valuable when it’s consumable. We’ve been taught to evaluate it, compare it, monetize it. We’ve been told that beauty must be chased, perfected, or earned. And that beauty must look “one way”. Yet that one way is constantly changing based on trends, creating an ever-shifting and therefore unattainable “beauty” standard.
But none of this even begins to capture what true beauty is.
Today, we begin the return. Not to beauty as others define it, but to beauty as devotion. To beauty as a key with which we can unlock an even deeper, richer human experience and more potent relationship with each moment.
Venus, goddess of beauty, sensuality, and desire, reminds us that beauty is sacred technology. It isn’t about covering up, but rather seeing more clearly. Seeing past your looks, personality, roles, and labels right to the heart of your essence.
Embracing beauty as devotion isn’t about becoming beautiful or even creating beauty. It’s about remembering that you already are beautiful and, when we look, we can find beauty all around us right now.
The invitation is to let yourself see it.
Thanks for joining me for Day 2. If you missed Day 1, you can find that here.
With love + devotion,
Montoya Miller
The Muse’s Altar
Journal Prompts:
What beliefs about beauty were handed to me that no longer feel true?
What forms of beauty make me feel most alive, most myself?
Ritual: Mirror Gazing with Venus
Light a candle and find a comfortable, private space where you can sit in front of a mirror.
Set a timer for 3–5 minutes.
Spend this time witnessing yourself in the mirror (yes, I know it’s uncomfortable at first - more about that in the voice note below).
Look into your left eye as this is the eye that is connected directly to your heart as well as your feminine side.
This practice is not about fixing, judging, or performing. Just see yourself.
Place one hand on your heart, the other on your belly. Breathe slowly.
As you gaze, imagine Venus standing next to you - soft, radiant, and smiling in love.
Not judging. Not correcting. Just witnessing. Holding space.
Let whatever comes up move through you. Tears, giggles, discomfort, resistance, love…all of it is welcome and natural. Just stay with your breath and stay with the practice for those few minutes.