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Venus
Venus in a birth chart is what you love and value: attraction, pleasure, taste, money and the way you give and receive love. Its sign says how you fall for someone and what keeps you there.
Within a minute of walking into a room you know which chair you would choose, and which of the people in it you would sit beside. That instant sorting, of what draws you and what does not, is Venus.
In your chart
The sign is how you love and what you find beautiful: slowly and physically in Taurus, wanting to be understood in Gemini, wholeheartedly in Scorpio. By house, it is where pleasure is found and attraction happens without effort. Aspects show what love is tied to. A sextile to Mars makes desire and affection agree; a square from Pluto makes attraction that is intense before it is comfortable.
From a real analysis
In her chart: Venus in Taurus, in the 8th house · 19°09′ Taurus
Your Venus, the part of you that loves and enjoys, is in Taurus, the earthy sign of the senses, of comfort and of things built to last. Venus rules Taurus, so love and pleasure are at home here, in what you can touch and keep. For you, affection is a warm plate set down, a hand on the back of a neck, an afternoon given without checking the time. And because your Venus stands where life is shared most privately, you want the whole thing: full trust, nothing held back, a bond that belongs to the two of you.
Themes
Venus is affection, taste, harmony and the pull toward what is pleasing. It is money as value: what you are willing to pay for, what you refuse to compromise on, what you think you are worth. The colours you choose and the way you set a table belong to it as much as who you fall for. It is also the friend who remembers what you like, brings the right thing, and notices the moment the mood of a room turns.
Pleasing is the risk. A strong Venus gives way to keep the peace, and mistakes being liked for being loved. The answer is to say the small preference aloud before it turns into resentment.
Morning and evening
In 225 days Venus goes once round the Sun and, from Earth, never strays beyond 47° of it, so it stands in your Sun’s sign or within two signs of it. It is the brightest planet, the morning star or the evening star. It is retrograde for about six weeks every nineteen months, which makes a retrograde Venus uncommon in a chart; the tradition reads it as love felt privately before it is shown.
Taurus and Libra are its signs and Pisces, at 27°, its exaltation. Its joy is the fifth house, where pleasure and making live.
How the analysis treats it
Venus has its chapter: sign, degree, house and aspects, read as what you love and how you show it, the words first and the degrees after.
Your chart places Venus to the minute of its sign, and the analysis names it by its degree, its sign and its house. When it was retrograde at the moment of birth, the chart marks it with an R.
Sources: every position and date here comes from NASA JPL’s DE440 ephemeris and is checked against NASA’s JPL Horizons. How it is checked.
Your Venus
That is Venus in everyone’s chart. Yours stands in one sign and one house, and those two say what it means for you. Free, and it takes a minute.