Expressed well
Charm, artistic taste, generosity in love and a gift for making relationships and places pleasant.
♀ Venus in astrology
Venus in astrology governs attraction and values — what you find beautiful and how you love. It spends about 30.3 days in each sign and takes about a year to go round the zodiac, so it changes sign roughly every 30.3 days — people born that far apart usually have it in different signs, and even a day apart can differ if a sign change falls between them.
What Venus means in a birth chart
Venus governs love, attraction, pleasure, beauty and value — what you enjoy, what you find beautiful and how you bring people close. Its sign describes your style of affection and taste, and its house where you seek harmony. It also rules money in the sense of what you are willing to pay for. Venus is never more than 47° from the Sun, so it sits in one of five signs around the Sun sign.
Linked with Aphrodite: love, desire, beauty and the power to bring people together — or set them against each other. A circle above a cross — often read as a hand mirror, and as spirit above matter.
Dignities and correspondences
RulesTaurus and Libra
Exalted inPisces
DetrimentScorpio and Aries
FallVirgo
DayFriday
MetalCopper
Under strain
Vanity, people-pleasing, overspending or choosing comfort over honesty in relationships.
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Speed decides what it can tell you
Venus stays 30.3 days in a sign
30.3 days
per sign.
About a year
for a full circuit of the twelve signs.
Personal
Fast enough to differ between siblings.
Its sign changes quickly enough to tell apart people born only 30.3 days apart. Work out your own chart →
How often it turns back
Venus goes retrograde every 19 months
Venus lines up with Earth again every 584 days, so it turns retrograde every 19 months and the dates drift through the calendar. The backward motion is apparent — Earth overtaking or being overtaken on the inside of the track.
Affection, money, taste and the people who come back is what the tradition attaches to it, and a retrograde period is read as that turning inward. Every Venus retrograde by year →
Born with Venus retrograde
Venus retrograde at birth is traditionally read as a love life that runs on its own timetable — past partners returning, unusual tastes, or learning self-worth before feeling secure in relationships.
The Venus return
Venus returns to its natal degree about once a year, and in almost the same position every eight years — a cycle astrologers use for questions of love and money.
Venus in the twelve houses
The house Venus occupies shows the area of life where its function plays out — and it depends on your birth time, not just the date.
Venus in each sign
Venus spends between 7.42% (Sagittarius) and 9.22% (Aries) of 1900–2050 in a sign. Right now it is in Libra. Venus turns retrograde in nearly the same five stretches of the zodiac every eight years, and the signs that host those loops collect extra time.
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