Modern
Venus, in the modern reading, is Venus is love and value: attraction, affection, beauty, pleasure, relationship, and harmony. It shows what you find desirable and worthwhile, how you relate and attract, and your capacity for enjoyment and grace. Wherever Venus falls by sign and house, and however it aspects the rest of the chart, this principle is colored and located, becoming one of the central themes of the personality.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
In the tradition, Venus is the lesser benefic, signifying love, beauty, women, marriage, pleasure, art, ornament, and concord; cool and moist, a nocturnal benefic, she governs the kidneys and the sense of touch, and shows where harmony and delight are sought. Read its sign for how it expresses, its house for where, its aspects for how it gets along, and its dignity and condition for how well it does its work.
Lean in — Develop Venus's principle consciously; it is a core part of who you are.
Watch for — Disown Venus; what it governs will act out anyway, less consciously.
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Sources
- Ptolemy, TetrabiblosGives the nature and significations of Venus in the foundational tradition.
- Valens, AnthologiesRecords the significations of Venus in Hellenistic practice.
- Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements (1975)Frames Venus as a core principle in modern psychological astrology.