March 18, 2024
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Planet: Venus
Energy Point Type: Planet
Rules Signs: Taurus and Libra
Rules House: 2nd House and 6thHouse
Elements: Earth and Air
Key Phrase: Way of Relating

Venus symbol
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Venus represents your Way of Relating. Its placement in Sign and House reveals how we appreciate pleasure, beauty, art, creativity, our interactions with our environment, and our interactions with the people in our lives.

Consider the chart of an individual with Venus in Aries in the 6th House. Aires is a Fire Sign. Fire’s expression is pioneering, creative, and exploratory. In Aries, the Element acts independently, heroically, and aggressively. So, the key phrase is “Your Way of Relating manifests through your independent and heroic quest for and attraction to maverick and individualistic service for others.” In short, they prefer to work with and relate to people who are their equals and who can manage themselves, eschewing the role of manager and employee.

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Venus expresses itself through a Sign and acts most powerfully in an area of your life by House. This section will look at all 12 Sign and House placements for Venus. It is important to make a clear distinction between the Sign and House. While it is correct that each Zodiac Sign rules a particular House, it is vital not to conflate the two.

Venus in Aries is not the same as Venus in the 1st House even though Aries rules the first House. A person with Venus in Aries has a Way of Communicating devoted to independent and maverick behavior regardless of House placement. Someone with Venus in the 1st House has a Way of Communicating devoted to figuring oneself out and working on identity issues over the course of his or her lifetime.

Venus in the Signs

Think of Venus as your way of attracting and being attracted to other people, which helps you build and navigate friendships, job/career opportunities, and family dynamics. Venus is the representative of your charisma.

Venus in Aries

Individuals with Venus in Aries need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to individualism, independence, and self-direction. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote freedom. They connect by being assertive, direct, impulsive, fearless, and impatient.

Venus in Taurus

Individuals with Venus in Taurus need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to safety, stability, and pleasure. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote security and enjoyment of the physical world. They connect by being steadfast, reliable, responsible, conservative, resistant to change, and stubborn.

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Venus in Gemini

Individuals with Venus in Gemini need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to learning, mental stimulation, and communication. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote talking and listening, gathering and sharing information, and constant interaction. They connect by being mentally agile, curious, inquisitive, and witty.

Venus in Cancer

Individuals with Venus in Cancer need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to nurturing, caretaking, sympathy, and emotional support. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote compassion, belonging, and understanding. They connect by being caring, protective, receptive, reactive, sentimental, and vulnerable.

Venus in Leo

Individuals with Venus in Leo need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to self-esteem, creativity, and self-expression. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote performance, enjoyment of self and others, and recognition. They connect by being proud, confident, expressive, dramatic, showy, and egocentric.

Venus in Virgo

Individuals with Venus in Virgo need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to efficiency, service, and inventiveness. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote competency, improvement, and problem-solving. They connect by being technical, precise, systematic, orderly, discriminating, critical, and meticulous.

Venus in Libra

Individuals with Venus in Libra need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to harmony, balance, and fairness. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote judgment, negotiation, and analysis. They connect by being engaging, charming, appealing, impartial, considerate, cooperative, and compliant.

Venus in Scorpio

Individuals with Venus in Scorpio need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to transformation, healing, sex, and power. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote reform, overcoming trauma, and intensity. They connect by being erotic, passionate, powerful, controlling, dangerous, manipulative, and regenerative.

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Venus in Sagittarius

Individuals with Venus in Sagittarius need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to truth, purpose, and morality. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote hope, faith, and belief in a higher power. They connect by being enthusiastic, philosophical, persuasive, expansive, and excessive.

Venus in Capricorn

Individuals with Venus in Capricorn need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to success, structure, and order. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote achievement, status, and goals. They connect by being serious, formal, realistic, exacting, organized, and conservative.

Venus in Aquarius

Individuals with Venus in Aquarius need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to awakening, socializing, and friendliness. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote idealism, the needs of the many, and future visions. They connect by being detached, objective, original, eccentric, broadminded, rebellious, and humanitarian.

Venus in Pisces

Individuals with Venus in Pisces need to follow a Way of Relating devoted to spirituality, transcendence, unity, and unconditional love. These people relate best to others in careers, relationships, and families that promote imagination, dreams, and globalization. They connect by being passive, sacrificial, yielding, empathic, forgiving, escapist, and intuitive.

Venus in The 12 Houses

The Houses represent different areas of our lives and how we “quest” or work or solve problems in those areas. The Sign ruling each House is determined by the time of birth, which is why it is so important. When a Point occupies a House the focus of the House becomes amplified by the nature and intent of the point. This next section will look at Venus in each House.

The Planet in the 1st House (of Identity)

Individuals with Venus in the 1st House will have a Way of Relating devoted to their identity and the development of the Self. They bring concerns about Self and survival to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Taurus rules the 1st House, then the individual will share his or her identity through physical needs, the pursuit of financial security, and the accumulation of resources.

The Planet in the 2nd House (of Resources and Security)

Individuals with Venus in the 2nd House will have a Way of Relating devoted to their safety, security, and their body. They bring concerns about gathering what is needed to feel stable and protected in every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Sagittarius rules the 2nd House, then the individual will share philosophy, enthusiasm, and the ability to persuade people as the way to get his or her needs met.

The Planet in the 3rd House (of Communication)

Individuals with Venus in the 3rd House will have a Way of Relating devoted to trying to understand the world around them and successfully communicate with others. They bring concerns about networking with others and social interaction to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Cancer rules the 3rd House, then the individual will empathize, sympathize, and use emotional intelligence to try to form relationships with people in his or her daily life.

The Planet in the 4th House (of Family)

Individuals with Venus in the 4th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to trying to learn lessons from and build his or her family. They bring concerns about significant inner work and the dynamics of the family to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Aquarius rules the 4th House, then the individual will want to revolutionize his or her family relationships, trying to achieve and experience an idealized vision of what family should be.

The Planet in the 5th House (of Creativity)

Individuals with Venus in the 5th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to trying to express themselves in ways that build their reputation and recognition. They bring concerns about performance and creativity to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Virgo rules the 5th House, then the individual will share inventive, methodical, and critical behavior in his or her efforts to create and perform for others as the way to connect.

The Planet in the 6th House (of Service)

Individuals with Venus in the 6th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to service, health, and day-to-day work. They bring concerns about hard work and usefulness to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Aries rules the 6th House, then the individual will share in a one-to-one way at work, doing activities with others for health benefits, and learning new skills.

The Planet in the 7th House (of Partnerships)

Individuals with Venus in the 7th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to forming relationships and learning from others, as well as teaching others. They bring concerns about partnerships and how to give value to and get value from others to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Scorpio rules the 7th House, then the individual will transform others and seek to be transformed by the people he or she forms partnerships with during their lives.

The Planet in the 8th House (of Intimacy)

Individuals with Venus in the 8th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to trying to understand power, change, and sexuality. They bring concerns about intensity and periods of significant regeneration to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Gemini rules the 8th House, then the individual will share curious, communicative, and open-minded thoughts about how to explore and deal with his or her sexuality, process transformations, and resolve power issues as the way to connect with others.

The Planet in the 9th House (of Mastership)

Individuals with Venus in the 9th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to exploring the world broadly and deeply, using scholarship and belief as tools of study. They bring concerns about authority and learning from experience, culminating in recognition as an expert, to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Capricorn rules the 9th House, then the individual will want to relate to people who reach the highest levels of practice and achievement in whatever knowledge and wisdom they pursue.

The Planet in the 10th House (of Career)

Individuals with Venus in the 10th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to accomplishment, measurable success, and material prosperity. They bring concerns about work, and, by extension, family responsibility to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Leo rules the 10th House, then the individual will share creativity, performance, and the pursuit of recognition to become prosperous and shape his or her career.

The Planet in the 11th House (of Community)

Individuals with Venus in the 11th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to community and the search to fit in and help society thrive. They bring concerns about socializing and devotion to a cause to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Pisces rules the 11th House, then the individual will share imagination, spirituality, and awareness of the unity of humanity to integrate into and support his or her community.

The Planet in the 12th House (of Spirituality)

Individuals with Venus in the 12th House will have a Way of Relating devoted to spiritual pursuits, finding and living one’s purpose, and connecting the divine with the material. They bring concerns about counseling and advising to every relationship. This energy will be modified by the Sign ruling the House. Suppose Libra rules the 12th House, then the individual will analyze, negotiate, and attempt to find balance for and with individuals in one-on-one interactions dealing with belief, mysteries, and the spiritual aspect of life.

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