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| Venus Facts | ||
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| Dignified | Taurus | Love is earthy and can be somewhat materialistic. |
| Libra | Love is more cultured and artistic. | |
| Detriment | Scorpio | The animal self overpowers the love nature, lust wins out over refined love. |
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| Exalted | Pisces | Your compassion gives you the ability to sacrifice and love unconditionally. |
| Fall | Virgo | Your mind is so critical and analytical you can't understand love. |
| House Naturally Ruled: 2nd and 7th | ||
| Keywords | Personal affections, appreciation, harmony, unison | |
| Associations | Health | Cheeks, chin, internal reproductive organs, kidneys, larynx, lumbar region, ovaries, parathyroids, sense of taste, sensory organs of the skin, throat, venous blood circulation |
| General | Aesthetics, affection, appreciation, art, attraction, beauty, charm, clothes, cohesion, color, cooperation, culture, disposition, drama, emotional contacts, fashion, femininity, gentleness, good taste, harmony, impressionability, jewelry, love, luxury. marriage, melody, money, moral character, originality, painting, partners, pleasure, poetry, possessions, refinement, sensuality (not sex), social urges, song, sugar/sweets, tenderness, unions of all kinds, values | |
| Positive Traits | Adaptable, adept (especially at love and in social situations), affectionate, attractive, appreciative of beauty, considerate, constructive, courteous, devoted, friendly, gentle, kind, placid, refined, responsive, tactful, want harmonious relationships | |
| Negative Traits | Careless, dependent on others, evasive, excessively romantic, flirtatious, indecisive, indifferent, indolent, impractical, lazy, ostentatious, overly sensitive, overly sentimental, weak willed | |
- You draw to yourself through the magnetic attracting power of love (Venus) because through love, we're conscious of others and can understand the principle of unity and achieve unity.
- Life (Sun), form (Moon) and reason (Mercury) are necessary for human existence. Venus adds love and simple existence becomes living.
- The placement of Venus indicates the things you really enjoy.
- The sign Venus is in indicates how you express your emotions in personal relationships, especially love and marriage. It also shows your attitude toward money, personal possessions, creature comforts and social and aesthetic values.
- The house Venus is in indicates how you express yourself socially, romantically and artistically in areas of your life. It also shows what type of people you establish social and romantic relationships and close friendships with.
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| Aspect | Effects |
| General | Aspects to Venus affect the love nature and influence your ability to form lasting emotional and business relationships. Venus softens and sensitizes the planets it aspects. They indicate the areas most strongly influenced by a desire for companionship. The strength of Venus and its aspects indicate the capacity to create harmony and beauty and the ability to attract the things and people you want. In a male's chart, it indicates the kind of woman he's attracted to. In a female's chart, it indicates what you will or will not do for a man. |
| Conjunctions | Conjunctions emphasize the love nature and your affections. The expression of your social, romantic and aesthetic urges and tendencies is heightened. The opposite sex (as well as others in general) are attracted by your gentleness and grace and your emotional empathy. You have ease and sensitivity of expression in all affairs ruled by the planets involved and the signs and houses they occupy. |
| Trines | Trines indicate ease of flow of artistic, creative and romantic expression. Your loves, romances and friendships are usually happy and you're usually attractive and graceful. You attract people who benefit you, the type indicated by the planets involved. You have a soothing and pacifying effect on others. You're usually very musical and artistic. The planets, signs and houses involved indicate which areas benefit from the trines. |
| Squares | Squares challenge your affections and feelings and indicate difficulties in social relationships. Love and romance is often unfulfilling and disappointing. You often lack refinement and good taste and can be self-indulgent and overly sensual. The areas affected or causing the problems are shown by the planets, signs and houses involved. |
| Sextiles | Sextiles indicate opportunities for the development of aesthetic and social qualities in areas ruled by the planets, signs and houses involved. Aesthetic and emotional expression is often refined and flows easily in these same areas. |
| Inconjuncts | Inconjuncts indicate an emotional adjustment that must be made in areas ruled by the planets, signs and houses involved. These must be made before you can realize your feelings. |
| Oppositions | Oppositions indicate an awareness (or lack of it) of your feelings towards others. You have emotional, marital and romantic problems in your relationships. You're overly sensitive and demand too much emotional gratification from others but won't give others the same. You must learn to consider others' feelings, especially in areas ruled by the planets, signs and houses involved. |
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