Venus In The Birth Chart

In astrology, Venus represents pleasure, beauty, harmony, enjoyment, how we resonate with our desires, what attracts and pleases us—it’s an energy of enjoyment. Venus connects us to act from our most genuine desires and guides us toward what we want. It also relates to courage, self-esteem, self-worth, and connection to life’s pleasures. Venus is a receptive planet associated with feminine energy, and it’s good to know that everyone—regardless of gender identity—has Venus in their birth chart. Furthermore, how we connect with it will greatly influence how we experience this energy socially and collectively, since we often confuse the feminine with weakness—when, in fact, it’s quite the opposite.

Venus represents our desires, what we like and what attracts us; in our birth chart, it symbolizes how we resonate to attract our desires and what our tastes are. It’s important to know our natal Venus because, generally, due to certain social conditioning, we tend to identify more with our Moon than with our Venus—relegating our desires to what we’ve learned, known, familiar, and defensive, instead of investing energy in discovering our own.

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In this sense, it’s interesting to consider Venus alongside Mars. Mars and Venus are the archetypes of the masculine and the feminine, understanding the masculine as the energy of action and drive, and the feminine as the energy of attraction and harmony. Now, is this synonymous with male and female? Are these categories mutually exclusive? Fortunately, socially and collectively, we are increasingly experiencing the appropriation of possibilities and subjectivities independent of our sexuality and our self-perceived gender.

Deconstructing femininity is no simple task. It involves years, centuries, entire eras of social and cultural baggage. It means shaking off the mud of history and the masculinizing, phallic gaze of language that overshadows any other inclusive expression. And we can see this at all symbolic levels, from how it impacts us in terms of professional ‘equality’ to how our supposedly subjective and personal desires—which at first glance seem unrelated to our context and environment—are shaped by social expectations.

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We are all affected by the social framework, regardless of gender; therefore, it is almost obligatory for us to know, understand, and analyze it in order to deconstruct it and choose what we want to experience and how we want to experience it. We are all affected by the binary, impoverished, and immature way of managing life’s possibilities—it is truly uncreative to assign qualities in those terms.

Venus In The Zodiac Signs

When considering this, understanding Venus through the zodiac signs can offer clues for interpreting our birth chart and how we relate to our Venus placement. Of course, a complete analysis would also involve examining Venus by astrological house and aspect. Below, we explore Venus through the zodiac signs.

Note: The signs where Venus is in its domicile and exalted are where it feels most astrologically at its best. Conversely, the signs of its fall and detriment are where it feels most uncomfortable. This isn’t necessarily good or bad, but rather indicates the signs where Venus expresses itself best or worst in each case, and each case requires further analysis.

Venus in Aries represents the warrior-like and active desire where attraction manifests as a desire to be in charge. In this sign, Venus is in exile.
Venus in Taurus is in one of its domiciles. The Taurean Venus loves pleasures, enjoyment, contact with the body and with the earthly.
Venus in Gemini loves the mind, intellect, and reason. It’s a great combination for putting ideas into play.
Venus in Cancer is exalted, where we are attracted to everything that gives us a feeling of home, warmth and security.
Venus in Leo is attraction itself because it is the product of the sun’s brilliance.
Venus in Virgo is in fall, when it can become very meticulous and orderly in its manifestation of desire and attraction.
Venus in Libra is in another of its domiciles, and here the attraction is actively present in the relationship. Here, the attraction and harmonization of poles are at play.
Venus in Scorpio is in one of its exiles, since the all-or-nothing approach has little to do with Venusian harmony. This Venus loves hitting rock bottom.
Venus in Sagittarius is adventurous and likes expansion, searching, as well as anything with an exotic flavor.
Venus in Capricorn is in fall since it is a rigid and demanding Venus, which is sometimes associated with the attraction to the wise and old.
Venus in Aquarius is the revolutionary Venus that fights for freedom on an intellectual level.
Venus in Pisces is exalted, as it is universal love at its highest expression.

Venus In The Birth Chart

Venus In The Zodiac Signs

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