Venus in Sagittarius

You fell for someone on a train once, or in a foreign city, or halfway through an argument about the meaning of life. The people you remember are the ones who made the world feel bigger.

Venus in Sagittarius loves openly, hopefully, and without keeping accounts.

The ferry you nearly missed

Your best dates were never dinners: a picnic in the rain, a ferry you nearly missed, a museum at closing time with nobody else in it. You are playful and warm, quick to laugh and slow to hold a grudge. Humour is the fastest way to your heart, and a person able to laugh at themselves has half of it already. Your host is Jupiter, and the Greek astrologers counted Jupiter and Venus as the two benefics, the greater and the lesser, so here the two most generous planets in the sky share one roof.

Companions

Your partner has to be a friend, a travelling companion and a sparring partner in ideas, all at once, and the ones who manage it never lose you. The one you choose makes the world bigger, and is still good company on a long day on the road, when the car is hot and the map was wrong. Honesty matters to you as much as room to move, and you offer both. Your home fills up with things bought in other countries, and none of them match.

The long middle

You keep one foot out of the door, promise more than you can give, and say the honest thing so bluntly that it lands as a blow. The ordinary middle of a relationship, the dishes and the weeknights, bores you, and you mistake the boredom for the end.

Keep the adventure inside the relationship: a new place every season, a book read aloud to each other, a question you have never asked.

Further, together

The loves that go the distance with you are the ones that kept moving. Years in, you are still the pair who say yes to the invitation abroad, the spare room offered by a stranger, the detour nobody planned. Jupiter’s gift to this Venus is faith, and faith is what the long middle of love runs on.