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Our planet Venus was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, back when the only planets we knew about were the ones visible to the naked eye. She was the third brightest object after the Sun and Moon and was the only one to be named after a goddess rather than a god. Venus is particularly special astrologically speaking, because she really does imbue everything she touches with love and is even known as the ‘lesser benefic’ after Jupiter, who is the ‘greater benefic’ of the heavens. The two are benefic because their astrological effects are mostly always beneficial and kind.

Venus can be interpreted many ways in astrology and under various techniques and circumstances. This article is a guide that’s intended to outline some various interpretive angles involving Venus and what tends to happen when, a) Venus touches something else and b) something else touches Venus. Quite often we hear questions such as, ‘is a Venus transiting Saturn interpretation the same as Saturn transiting Venus?’. The answer is, no it is not. Read on to find out more.

Venus in Your Natal Chart

Venus in your natal chart represents a very personal part of who you are, your core personality and various aspects of your life. Just like the goddess Venus, your Venus is about your love and appreciation for beauty (or aesthetic preferences and pleasures). Venus represents your love life, your love style, your preferences in romance and relationships and she also talks to us about the artistic styles you personally have and who or what you are attracted to.

Venus in the different signs will tend to show a person who has love styles and aesthetic tastes that work in parallel with that sign. For example, Venus in each of the Earth signs; Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn may feel quite attracted to things and people of material worth and value. They may also tend to appreciate the more physical and practical responses to love and romance than say, the more cerebral responses (like air signs) or the more sentimental gestures (as associated with water signs).

Planets aspecting Venus in Your Natal Chart

When planets are aspecting Venus in a natal chart, this will colour the native’s love personality with further qualities, whether these qualities are contrasting or synchronising with the zodiac sign Venus is in. For example, Venus in air sign Libra may show a person who is very romantic, yet has a tendency to vacillate this way and that, which can be confusing to their potential romantic partners. However, with Saturn in aspect to Venus, they may be somewhat less romantic than a typical Venus in Libra, preferring stability and constancy in their interactions.

Let’s consider the interaction between Venus and Saturn as a two-way street. In this scenario, Venus is also imbuing Saturn with her reasonable love and beauty, so this person may tend to meet their responsibilities with grace and love, respect and kindness.

Venus in the Houses

When Venus or another planet falls into a person’s house, both the house and Venus will be affected, as this interaction is a two-way street. For example, Venus in a person’s first house will add grace and beauty to that person’s overall outlook on life and appearance. Also, their Venus (or love temperament) might adjust according to their first house principles, so they may tend to wear their heart on their sleeve, even if they have Venus in a shy sign such as Virgo or Cancer.

Venus in Contact With the angles

The same is true when Venus makes a strong aspect to one of the angles of the natal chart. For example, if Venus trines the MC, it is more likely that a person will be famous or at least well-known for something beneficial, while naturally keeping up a positive public image and persona. At the same time Venus herself will be affected in the native’s chart, in that there may be a tendency for the native to fall in love with someone who will support their reputation or public status in some way. They may also find themselves attracted to people with good public reputations.

Venus via Transit

As Venus makes her transit cycle through the houses of the natal chart, she brings qualities to the areas of life the houses represent that are benevolent and kind. For example, as Venus transits through a person’s second house, there may be more of a likelihood that the person will receive an increase in income in some form or another or be gifted something valuable or pretty. In this situation, there isn’t a two-way communication between Venus and the person’s house because this time, Venus is transiting rather than playing a role within the chart. Instead, it’s always useful to see which other aspects are playing a part in this transit configuration. We might see transit Mars opposing transit Venus or transit Uranus in a square to her. Instead we would look to the other planet/s to see how their effects might dispose or shift the effects of Venus in the natal chart’s house somewhat.

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