Aspects
Venus Opposition Vesta
Your capacity for single-minded devotion and your longing for love and closeness sit across from each other, and the tension usually walks in the door as another person. You may fall for the unavailable, the married-to-their-work, or the celibate, and feel the pull between being wanted and being free to consecrate yourself elsewhere. At its hardest you swing between throwing yourself into a relationship and resenting the loss of focus, then retreating into the work and aching for warmth. The resolution is to stop forcing a choice. Love and devotion can share a life if you let each have its own claim on you instead of one always sacrificing the other.
Lean in — Let love and the work each keep their own claim on you.
Watch for — Sacrifice intimacy for the focus, then ache for warmth.
- love-vs-devotion
- relational-polarity
- balancing
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Gives Vesta's principle of devotion and sacred focus as it meets the Venus.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Vesta-Venus aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Vesta-Venus contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.