Venus

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Venus


Qualities
Personal, Proto-Extrinsic
Rulership
Rules over Taurus (earthy side)
Rules over Libra (airy side)
Natural houses
The second house
The seventh house
Alternative spelling
none

Venus, planet of charm, consideration and partnering. Venus is considered the ruler of two signs - Taurus on her earthy side, Libra on her airy side. Her natural houses are the 2nd house and the 7th house, respectively.

In the astrological chart, Venus is considered a personal planet, reflecting basic psychological functions within the personality.

1 General
2 Psychological function
3 Vocations
4 In the chart

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Venus is the most brilliant planet in our sky. She is completely covered by fluffy, creamy clouds that hide her scarred, volcanic surface. Venus is the closest of the planets in its size to the earth's, earning her a denomination as the sister of earth. From our vantage point, Venus never gets farther than 48 degrees (approx. 2 signs) from the sun.

Reference: Wikipedia.

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Venus is the more leisurely and recreational place in the personality. It reflects the more refined senses in the personality. It is the pleasurable and pleasure-seeking side. It reflects what the person finds enjoyable, what he takes pleasure in.

Fundamentally, it is the mechanism that allows for association, by giving the person positive emotional feedback for being around that thing/person. Accordingly, Venus has rulership over estrogen and the bonding hormones, and reflects much of our friendly and romantic associations. A strongly independent Venus may reflect trouble in finding and maintaining one's significant other. Uranian influences on Venus are especially notorious for this.

In this light, Venus is the most basic building block of society, enabling people to get together and cooperate, to do together what no single man can do on his own. This kind of reliance on others is both their strength and their weakness. The drawback of this is that it weakens the individual by making it much more sensitive to other people's opinions, which softens the personality greatly.

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Venusian people tend to find themselves in such Venusian fields:

Traditional female matters
- Beauty and cosmetics
Art and culture - their senses are quite refined. The arts especially with Leo.
Design work
Fashion
Consulting, especially in a chart with an open, knowledgeable Mercury. Common when Mercury is directly conjunct Venus, especially in the more intelligent signs.