Positions
Venus in Pisces
Modern
You love with deep compassion and imagination, giving easily and seeing the best in people, sometimes the best that is not quite there. The shadow is no boundaries, loving the dream of a person or rescuing instead of relating. The growth is loving the real human, not the ideal. At your best you offer a tenderness that can heal.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
Pisces is Venus's The sign where a planet is honored and shows its best, most elevated qualities, even though it does not rule there. The Sun is exalted in Aries, for example., Jupiter's watery A planet sits in its domicile when it is in the sign it rules, like Mars in Aries. It is at home here, able to express its nature with full strength and ease., so the star of love is honored here into compassion without limit: tenderness, romance, and a love that dissolves the line between self and other. The older authors read exaltation as a planet given honor and strength. The gift is unconditional, imaginative, redemptive love; the cost is a boundarylessness that loves the ideal and overlooks the real.
Lean in — Love the real person in front of you, not the ideal.
Watch for — Pour yourself out with no boundary and call it devotion.
- compassionate
- romantic
- tender
Sources
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, I.19Places Venus's exaltation in Pisces.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Pisces Venus as love expressed through compassion, romance, and transcendence.