Aspects
Ceres Square Venus
Your longing for love and your nurturing instinct keep colliding. Love can become conditional, given to be repaid, or you measure affection in care provided and feel cheated when it is not returned in kind. There may be jealousy over who gets your nurture, a tendency to smother, or a quiet bargain underneath your generosity. Self-worth can hinge on being needed by the people you love. This square does not want a comfortable truce, it wants action: to give without a hidden price, to let yourself be loved for who you are rather than what you provide, and to stop confusing being needed with being loved.
Lean in — Give love without a hidden price, and be loved for yourself.
Watch for — Confuse being needed with being loved, and smother to keep it.
- conditional-love
- smothering
- self-worth
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Gives Ceres's principle of nurture, sustenance, and loss-and-return as it meets the Venus.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Ceres-Venus aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Ceres-Venus contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.