Aspects
Descendant Conjunction Venus
You are built for love and partnership. With Venus on your The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship., the seventh-house axis of relationship where Venus is profoundly at home, romance, harmony, and the desire for a beloved sit at the very center of your life, and you come most fully into yourself in a close, loving bond. You have real gifts for relating: charm, diplomacy, a talent for making a partner feel cherished, and an instinct for harmony in one-to-one ties. The gift is a genuine capacity for love and a life enriched by relationship. The shadow is needing a partner to feel complete, idealizing love, or keeping the peace at the cost of honesty. The lifelong work is to bring a whole, self-loving self into relationship, so a beloved enriches a life already full.
Lean in — Bring a whole, self-loving self into your relationships.
Watch for — Need a partner to feel complete or idealize love into fantasy.
- venus
- descendant
- conjunction
- partnership
Sources
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Venus's conjunction to the Descendant as a defining statement about how love, value, and beauty meet love, partnership, and the committed other.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Gives the modern natal reading of Venus's conjunction to the Descendant as a core feature of the birth chart's heart.
- Sasportas, The Twelve Houses (1985)Sasportas's study of the houses grounds the Descendant as the seventh-house axis of partnership and the committed other.