Venus in astrology

Venus is how you love and what you find beautiful: the part of you that expresses itself as when it is given room. What it is ultimately after is closeness, pleasure and worth.

It is at home in Taurus and Libra, so the affairs of Taurus and Libra tend to be where it has the clearest hand.

The sign tells you the manner: the same love looks bold in Aries and careful in Cancer without changing what it wants. The house tells you the arena: the part of life where you will actually meet it, whether that is money, partnership or reputation.

Aspects then tell you who it has to negotiate with. A Venus squared by Saturn and a Venus trined by Jupiter behave very differently even in the same sign.

Moving overhead, Venus sweetens whatever it touches, for 225 days for one full circuit. Slower bodies make chapters, faster ones make days — which is why a Moon transit is a mood and a Saturn transit is a re-write.

Astro Nox reads your own transits against your birth chart rather than against a Sun sign, so a Venus pass is dated to your degrees.

The Golden Dawn ties Venus to the cards below — the trump that carries the planet, and the decans it rules among the pips.