What Venus Means in Astrology

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and one of the brightest objects in the sky after the Sun and Moon. You can see her with the naked eye as the "evening star" or "morning star," depending on her phase.

Venus completes a full circuit of the ecliptic in 224 Earth days. From Earth's vantage point she orbits the Sun from inside, so she never moves more than 48° away from it. That means Venus is always close to the Sun in your chart — in the same sign or in an adjacent one.

In astrology Venus is the planet of love, beauty, and pleasure. Her key functions:

• Love and romantic relationships. Not relationships as a fact (that's the 7th house) but your style of love: what moves you, how you show tenderness, what you find "beautiful" in love.
• Aesthetics and beauty. What you consider beautiful: what art, what clothing style, what interior, what landscapes.
• Pleasure and enjoyment. What "pleasure" means to you: good food, sex, rest, travel, art.
• Money in the pleasure dimension. Not income itself (that's the 2nd house) but spending on pleasure: what you're willing to pay for, what's "worth it" to you.
• Values. What you value, what's "dear" to you in the broad sense — material and otherwise.

Venus rules two signs — Taurus (earthy Venus, material, sensual) and Libra (airy Venus, aesthetic, partnership-oriented).

The Mythology of Venus

In Greek myth she's Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. She was born from sea foam when Cronos hurled the severed genitals of Uranus into the sea. Her attributes are the dove, swan, myrtle, rose.

In the Roman tradition she's Venus, originally a goddess of vegetation and spring blooming, later merged with Aphrodite.

The mythological Aphrodite is not a passive beauty but an active force. She has many lovers (Ares, Adonis, Anchises), several children (Eros, Hermaphroditus, Aeneas). She intrigues, quarrels with other goddesses, shapes the course of the Trojan War. Venus isn't a "sweet girl" — she's a full force in charge of an important side of life.

In astrology that duality holds. A harmonious Venus is love, beauty, charm, the ability to please. An afflicted Venus is jealousy, manipulation through beauty, dependence on others' approval, an unhealthy fixation on the material.

Unlike the Moon (mother, care, emotional safety), Venus is more active and social. The Moon is "I-as-mother"; Venus is "I-as-beloved/loving." Different functions, both important.

Venus Through the 12 Signs — How You Love

The sign of Venus tells us the style through which you love and what you find beautiful.

Venus in Aries

Love as attack and conquest. "See it, want it, go for it" is the keynote. These people love fast and passionately, sometimes too impulsively. They love to confess first, to give bright gifts, to make showy gestures. Drawn to active, athletic, vivid types. Weakness: cooling off quickly after the conquest, impatience.

Venus in Taurus

Venus in rulership. The most "classical" placement of Venus. Love as bodily tenderness, slow enjoyment, loyalty. Sensuality, love of good food, beautiful things, scents, touch. Often good taste, love of a beautiful interior and clothing. Attracts money. Weakness: stubbornness in love, jealousy over property.

Venus in Gemini

Love as conversation and play. The keynote is "tell me." These people love flirting, messaging, wit, unexpected gifts. Romances often start through texting or studying together. Love of lightness, sometimes a few parallel interests. Weakness: fear of depth, superficiality, inconstancy.

Venus in Cancer

Love as care and home. These people love by cooking and tending. Tenderness through food, through a cozy home, through protection. Often attached to family traditions, to mother. Romances are usually serious, long-term. Weakness: jealousy, taking offense, emotional dependence.

Venus in Leo

Love as stage and generosity. These people love loudly, demonstratively, with expensive gifts and public gestures. They love admiration, photos, going out together. The partner must be "worthy." Weakness: fragile ego, constant need for admiration, vanity.

Venus in Virgo

Venus in fall. Love as service and care through doing. These people love by helping: organizing, healing, advising, fixing. Often shy with direct expressions of feeling but show up through a thousand small actions. Weakness: criticism, fear of a "non-ideal" partner, emotional reserve.

Venus in Libra

Venus in rulership. Love as partnership and aesthetics. These people love beautifully: beautiful dates, beautiful words, beautiful relationships. Often connected to art, design, law. They dislike conflict. Weakness: indecision, fear of being alone, dependence on approval.

Venus in Scorpio

Venus in detriment. Love as passion and possession. These people love deeply, sometimes destructively. Jealousy, control, dark sexuality, pull toward the forbidden. Romances are often intense, sometimes painful. Drawn to deep, passionate, sometimes "dark" partners. Weakness: destructiveness, manipulation, fixation on the past.

Venus in Sagittarius

Love as journey and expansion. These people love freely, in motion. Often romances with foreigners, on trips, while studying. Love of distant countries, philosophy, sport. The partner is a "companion in adventure." Weakness: trouble with commitment, the urge to "keep moving."

Venus in Capricorn

Love as structure and the long haul. These people love seriously, calculatedly, for the long term. Often an age gap, high-status partners, a late marriage. Love through doing, through a shared goal, through responsibility. Weakness: emotional restraint, fear of vulnerability, sometimes pragmatism.

Venus in Aquarius

Love as friendship and freedom. These people love equally, without hierarchy. Often a partner who's first a friend, then a lover. They like unusual formats (different countries, open relationships, late marriages). Weakness: emotional detachment, fear of closeness, a tendency to rationalize feelings.

Venus in Pisces

Venus in exaltation — one of the strongest positions. Love as dissolution and compassion. These people love deeply, sensitively, sometimes "rescuing" the partner. Often connected to art, music, helping professions. Weakness: martyrdom, idealization of the partner, prone to dependency in relationships.

More on each sign — in our article on Venus through the signs.

Venus Through the 12 Houses — Where Love and Beauty Show Up

The house of Venus tells us the area where you're most "venusian" — where your love life unfolds, where you attract, where you spend on pleasure.

Venus in the 1st House

Personal charm. These people radiate "pleasantness." Often a beautiful appearance, an easy manner, the ability to please at first glance. Love is an important part of identity; romances often begin in plain view.

Venus in the 2nd House

Money through pleasure. Often an ability to earn through beauty, art, pleasure. A love of beautiful things, sometimes overblown attachment to the material. Good taste, the ability to appreciate.

Venus in the 3rd House

Love through communication. Often romances by correspondence, with neighbors, in the immediate circle. They love writing love letters, exchanging books and music. Siblings often matter. Could be writers, journalists, teachers in aesthetic fields.

Venus in the 4th House

Love of home. These people enjoy home-making, cooking, family traditions. Often a good home, a beautiful interior. Attachment to the mother. A family person for whom "home is everything."

Venus in the 5th House

Venus in a "natural-home" house (the 5th is traditionally Leo's, and Venus in Leo shines brightly). Love of creativity, children, romance. Often dramatic romances, a rich love history, love of the stage and of attention. Many performers have a 5th-house Venus.

Venus in the 6th House

Love through work and daily labor. Often workplace romances, relationships with colleagues. A love of craft beauty, of detail. Sometimes care through small things, through help in the everyday. Health through aesthetics (yoga, sport, nutrition).

Venus in the 7th House

Venus in the "partnership" house. One of the most "marital" Venuses. Love and partnership are the central life theme. Often an early marriage, harmonious relationships, the ability to build a couple. The partner is usually beautiful, charming, aesthetically inclined.

Venus in the 8th House

Deep, passionate love. Often themes of shared finances, inheritance, joint resources. Sexual depth. Sometimes a connection to "shadow" aesthetics: dark art, design with tension. Pull toward intense relationships.

Venus in the 9th House

Love through travel and education. Often a foreign partner, a teacher, a person from another culture. Love of big ideas, of philosophy of beauty, of the art of different cultures. Often emigrants, international couples.

Venus in the 10th House

Love and career intertwined. Often a creative career, a public love story, a high-status partner or one from the work environment. The ability to please in society, a reputation as a "charming person."

Venus in the 11th House

Love through friends and communities. Often a partner who comes from the circle of friends, through long acquaintance. Many friends, a wide circle. Creative communities, joint projects. Sometimes unconventional relationship formats.

Venus in the 12th House

Hidden, sometimes secret love. Often behind-the-scenes romances, secret relationships, affairs with doctors or psychologists. Love of art, especially music. Sometimes dissolution in love, a tendency to dependent relationships. Artistic giftedness.

Aspects from Venus to Other Planets

Aspects of Venus shape how your love combines with other functions of the personality.

Venus-Moon

The pairing of "love + emotions."

• Harmonious (trine, sextile, soft conjunction) — tenderness, empathy in love, the ability to feel the partner. Sometimes a maternal style of loving.
• Tense (square, opposition) — conflict between feelings and desires, sometimes codependent relationships, emotional instability in love.

Venus-Mars

The key pairing for attraction and passion. The pairing of "love + desire."

• Harmonious — natural sexual energy, easy chemistry, passion and tenderness together.
• Tense — a conflict between "I want tenderness" and "I want passion," sometimes trouble integrating sex and love.

In synastry Venus-Mars is the key pairing for assessing chemistry (see our article on Venus-Mars synastry).

Venus-Jupiter

The pairing of "love + expansion."

• Harmonious — luck in love, expansion through the partner, love of luxury, optimism in relationships. Often "lucky in love" people.
• Tense — excess in love, a tendency to overdo, sometimes — affairs driven by "I want too much of everything."

Venus-Saturn

The pairing of "love + structure and commitment."

• Harmonious — loyalty, long relationships, the ability to build a pair for years. Often an age gap, serious partners.
• Tense — fear of closeness, a sense of "I don't deserve love," coldness, sometimes rejecting partners. One of the "hardest" aspects in love. Over time (after 30) it becomes an engine of mature love.

Venus-Uranus

The pairing of "love + the unconventional."

• Harmonious — an original love story, freedom in relationships, unusual formats.
• Tense — sudden breakups, instability in love, pull toward "unavailable" partners, frequent "short" stories.

Venus-Neptune

The pairing of "love + dissolution."

• Harmonious — idealism in love, artistic sensitivity, deep empathy.
• Tense — idealizing partners, disappointments, a tendency to codependent relationships.

Venus-Pluto

The pairing of "love + transformation."

• Harmonious — depth of love, the capacity for intense transformative relationships.
• Tense — obsession, jealousy, control, sometimes destructive relationships, fear of loss, love through drama.

Retrograde Venus

Venus is retrograde about once every 1.5 years, for roughly 40 days. It's one of the rarest retrogrades — rarer than Mercury's or Mars's.

Venus Retrograde Natally

About 7% of people are born with Venus retrograde. That's less than for other planets, so a retrograde Venus is a noticeable feature of the chart.

What it means:

• Love flows "inward," not outward. The person opens more slowly, takes longer to "warm up" in relationships.
• Returns and reconsideration. Often — meetings with exes years later, "second chance" stories.
• A distinctive aesthetic sense. Often an unusual taste that others don't immediately understand.
• Deeper, but slower. Love stories aren't fast affairs but long, gradual unfoldings.

A natally retrograde Venus is not a "problem." It's a specific rhythm that many people integrate in maturity.

Transit Retrograde Venus

Every 1.5 years Venus goes retrograde for 40 days. During this period:

• Exes resurface. An ex may call, message on social media, run into you unexpectedly.
• Current relationships get reconsidered. Often — crises, serious conversations, reassessment.
• Not the best time for new romances. If you fall for someone during Venus retrograde, the story is often short and quickly "falls apart."
• Not the best time for major aesthetic decisions — renovation, a new look, a tattoo. Often you regret it later.

Transit Venus retrograde isn't a "bad time" — it's a specific one: for returns and reconsideration, not for new starts.

The Cycles of Venus — The Five-Pointed Star

Venus moves through the sky in a very interesting pattern. From Earth's perspective she traces a five-petaled rosette — five "loops" over 8 years. The Babylonians and Egyptians knew this pattern, and many ancient Venus temples are built with pentagonal symmetry.

What this means for astrology:

• Venus's cycle is 8 years. Every 8 years Venus returns to essentially the same configuration relative to Earth and the Sun.
• 5 times in 8 years Venus goes retrograde (about once every 1.5 years).
• 5 times in 8 years a "lower conjunction" of Venus with the Sun occurs — the moment Venus passes between Earth and the Sun. This is the symbolic "Venus rebirth moment."

In personal astrology the 8-year Venus cycle is the cycle of love. For many people significant love stories are spaced about 8 years apart: a defining love at 16, at 24, at 32, at 40. It's not a "program" but a rhythm many notice in their lives.

Venus as "Morning Star" vs. "Evening Star"

During different periods of the cycle Venus is either visible before sunrise ("morning Venus") or after sunset ("evening Venus"). These are two different types of Venus:

• Morning Venus (rises before the Sun) — more active, initiating, "warrior-like." In myth — Venus-Ishtar, goddess of war and love.
• Evening Venus (sets after the Sun) — more passive, receptive, the classical "loving one." In myth — Venus-Aphrodite, peaceful goddess of love.

In someone's natal chart Venus will be either morning or evening, and this adds a subtle nuance to the style of love. A morning Venus is more active in expressing feelings; an evening Venus is softer, waiting for the other side to step forward.

Venus on the Angles of the Chart

When Venus sits close to one of the angles of the chart (Ascendant, MC, Descendant, IC), she works especially strongly.

Venus on the Ascendant

Personal charm at maximum expression. Often beautiful appearance, the ability to please, natural elegance. Love is an important part of identity. Many models, actors, and charming public figures have this placement.

Venus on the MC (10th House)

A career through beauty, art, aesthetics, relationships. Often public creative people, designers, performers. Sometimes — fame through a love story.

Venus on the Descendant (7th House)

"Love is the main stage of life." Often early marriages, dramatic partnership stories. The partner is usually charming, beautiful, aesthetically refined.

Venus on the IC (4th House)

Love of home, of home-making, of family beauty. The home is often beautiful, tastefully furnished. The partner often comes from the family circle, or the marriage is built "like family."

Venus in a Woman's and a Man's Chart

In psychological astrology Venus is read differently depending on gender.

For Women

In a woman's chart Venus is her own femininity. The type of "how I love," "what I give to the partner," "how I please." It's the basic "I-as-woman" archetype.

A strong Venus in a woman (in Taurus, Libra, Pisces, in the 1st or 5th house) — natural femininity, the ability to please, to love, to be in the flow of relationships.

A weak Venus (in Virgo, Scorpio, in tense aspects to Saturn or Neptune) — difficulty with femininity, sometimes suppressed sensuality, fear of "being desired." Often connected to a family script — the mother didn't model healthy femininity, the father rejected.

For Men

In a man's chart Venus is the type of woman he's drawn to. Not his wife directly (that's the 7th house) but the attractive archetype in his psyche.

• Venus in Taurus — drawn to sensual, embodied, grounded women.
• Venus in Gemini — drawn to witty, flexible ones.
• Venus in Scorpio — drawn to deep, passionate ones with a dark side.
• And so on.

Men often fall in love with "their Venus type" and then sometimes marry the "7th house type" (a longer-term partner image) — these are different archetypes.

In a man's chart the Venus-Moon pairing also matters:

• If Venus and the Moon are in harmony (same element or a harmonious aspect), the man easily combines "the beloved" and "the maternal type" in one woman.
• If they conflict, you often get the pattern of "wife and lover as different people": he marries one (Moon type — caring, maternal) and falls for the other (Venus type — charming, aesthetic). It's a classic male drama described in literature.

A healthy integration of Venus and Moon in a man is one of the tasks of maturing. Often this resolves by 40, when the man already understands his patterns and chooses a partner who fits both archetypes.

Venus in Synastry

In two-person compatibility Venus is one of the main planets.

Venus Pairings in Synastry

• One person's Venus conjunct or trine the other's Mars — the classic "chemistry." Calm, steady attraction.
• Venus square Mars — passion through tension. Excellent for short stormy stories.
• One person's Venus conjunct the other's Venus — shared tastes, aesthetics, values. Good for long friendship and partnership.
• One person's Venus in harmony with the other's Moon — emotional recognition in love. Often "my person."
• One person's Venus conjunct the other's Saturn — serious relationships, often marriage. Saturn "binds" Venus.
• One person's Venus in a significant house of the other — landing in an important area. Venus in the partner's 7th house is a classic "marital" signal.

More — in our article on compatibility and on Venus-Mars synastry.

Venus and Money in Synastry

Since Venus is also money and values, in synastry it often matters whether the couple's financial values match. If one has Venus in Taurus (loves to save) and the other in Sagittarius (loves to spend on travel), this can become a source of conflict in a long marriage.

Composite Venus in a Couple

In advanced synastry sometimes a composite chart is built — a "third" chart for the couple as a single organism. Venus in the composite is the "atmosphere of love" in the pair:

• Composite Venus in a harmonious sign (Taurus, Libra, Pisces) — a couple with natural tenderness and aesthetic feel.
• In tense signs (Scorpio, Aries, Virgo) — a couple with more complex love dynamics.
• Conjunct composite Mars — a couple with strong passion.
• In aspect to composite Saturn — a couple whose love carries "structure," often long-lasting, sometimes heavy.

Composite Venus is about the couple's overall style of love, not about each partner individually.

What Partner "Activates" Your Venus

Sometimes couples meet "not according to plan": they look mismatched, their signs are incompatible, but the chemistry between them is strong. Often what's working is a Venus activation — the partner's planets "hit" the sensitive points of your Venus.

• If his Mars lands conjunct your Venus — he awakens your femininity.
• If his Jupiter — he expands your love.
• If his Saturn — he structures, sometimes "binds" you into long-term.

This explains why a person who seems "wrong" on the surface can become deeply important to us. A Venus activation is one of the subtlest but most powerful factors.

Venus Transits — How Love Themes Come Alive

Venus is a fast planet. Her transits are short but precise.

Progressed Venus

Beyond transits there's progressed Venus — your Venus moving slowly through the signs at the rate of "one day = one year." That means progressed Venus moves about one degree per year.

When progressed Venus changes signs — a serious event, happening once every 25–40 years. Often it lines up with a change in love style: someone who used to love "Taurus-style" (slow, grounded) suddenly opens up to "Gemini-style" love (light, through conversation). It changes the relationship pattern.

When progressed Venus changes houses — also once every 15–25 years — the area where love activity unfolds shifts. For example, progressed Venus moving from the 5th to the 7th house often signals the transition from "romantic stories" to "serious partnerships."

These progressions are a powerful but slow tool. They explain why you love differently in different periods of life.

Venus Through Each House Each Year

Venus passes through each house in about 3–4 weeks (not counting retrogrades). In a year she completes the full circle at least once. When Venus transits into one of your houses, the theme of that house comes alive:

• Venus in your 1st house — heightened personal appeal, you feel like dressing up, going out, being seen.
• Venus in the 2nd — a financial theme, sometimes pleasant purchases, small gifts of fate.
• Venus in the 5th — heightened romantic openness, flirting, creative impulses.
• Venus in the 7th — focus on partnership, sometimes new introductions, sometimes harmonization in existing relationships.
• Venus in the 8th — deep, intimate themes; sometimes shared finances, sometimes deep romantic stories.
• Venus in the 10th — career visibility, a public love story, recognition through aesthetics.

These aren't "huge events" but a pleasant background. Experienced people often schedule first dates and important aesthetic events (photoshoots, premieres) for "their Venus."

Transit Venus to Natal Venus

Once a year transit Venus returns to your natal position. This is the Venus Return — a day of maximum openness to love. Often in those 1–2 weeks introductions happen, infatuations bloom, and existing relationships find harmony.

Transit Venus in Aspect to Other Natal Planets

• Transit Venus conjunct natal Mars — a day of chemistry and passion.
• With natal Jupiter — expansion, pleasant "gifts of fate."
• With natal Saturn — a serious conversation, commitments, sometimes the start of a marriage.
• With natal Moon — emotional harmony, tenderness, the maternal note.

These transits last 1–2 days. You can use them for important love decisions or for pleasant occasions.

Venus and Money — How Venus Attracts the Financial

Venus is often called the "second financial planet" (the first being Jupiter). Venus rules money through pleasure: what you buy, what you spend on, what you find "worth it."

A strong Venus (especially in Taurus, in the 2nd or 8th house, in harmony with Jupiter) — a natural ability to earn through beauty, art, pleasure, aesthetics. Often Venus leads to success in the beauty, fashion, design, art, and aesthetic-medicine industries.

A weak or afflicted Venus sometimes brings trouble with spending on oneself, or, conversely, an overblown "I must treat myself" with impulsive purchases. Financial work with Venus is about a healthy balance: spend on pleasure but don't blow up the budget.

What to Do If Venus Is "Afflicted"

"Afflicted Venus" is everyday shorthand for Venus in a difficult condition: in detriment, in fall, in tense aspects to Saturn, Pluto, Neptune, Uranus. In practice it often shows up as:

• Difficulty expressing love.
• Fear of being rejected.
• Low self-worth in love ("there's nothing in me to love").
• A string of unsuccessful relationships.
• Financial difficulties — sometimes tied to the theme of "I'm not worthy."

What helps in practice "to heal" an afflicted Venus:

1. Acknowledge the pattern. Not "I'm unlucky," but "my chart has a structure that creates these repetitions." It cuts the sense of "randomness" and gives a foothold.
2. Therapy. Especially if Venus is afflicted by Saturn (cold parent theme), Pluto (control or violence theme), or Neptune (codependency theme). It's the work of psyche, not stars.
3. Aesthetic practice. Venus is aesthetics. Caring for the body, beautiful clothes, surrounding yourself with beauty — that's not "surface," it's direct Venus work. Many people with an afflicted Venus avoid aesthetics because they're "not worthy" — and that closes Venus down further.
4. Learn to receive. Venus is about receiving, not only giving. Many people with an afflicted Venus only know how to give. Reclaiming the right to receive is therapeutic work.
5. Don't rush love. An "afflicted" Venus often works "through work" — love arrives not "easily" but through awareness. That's normal, and such relationships are often the deeper ones.

In most cases, work with an afflicted Venus shows results after 28–30 — once enough life experience has accumulated and there's readiness for therapy.

Strong vs. Weak Venus

Strong

• Rulership — Taurus and Libra.
• Exaltation — Pisces.

A strong Venus gives easy charm, a natural ability to please, to love, to attract. Harmonious relationships with the world of pleasure and beauty.

Weak

• Detriment — Scorpio and Aries.
• Fall — Virgo.

A weak Venus isn't "unlucky in love." It means the venusian function works through work: consciously learning to love, to please, to value oneself. Many strong women and vivid men have a "weak" Venus — and consciously develop it.

Common Mistakes in Working with Venus

• Treating a "weak" Venus as a verdict. "My Venus is in Virgo, so I'm not beautiful/not attractive" — it doesn't work like that. Venus in Virgo is just a different style of love: through service, through detail, through quality. Not worse, not better.
• Ignoring the house of Venus. The sign matters, but the house is often more informative for "where your love life is happening."
• Relying only on Venus in synastry. Venus is one of the planets. A full synastry is 30+ pairings, not one.
• Substituting Venus for the 7th house. Venus is how you love. The 7th house is whom you build a long partnership with. Different themes, sometimes producing different scripts.
• Treating Venus as "a women's planet only." Venus matters in a man's chart too — it describes the type of woman he's drawn to and his aesthetic preferences.

FAQ

Frequently asked

What is Venus in the natal chart in plain terms?

It's "the planet of love and beauty" in your chart. It shows how you love, what you find beautiful, what you spend money on for pleasure. In a woman's chart it also describes her own femininity; in a man's, the type of woman he's drawn to.

Where do I find Venus in my chart?

On any natal chart Venus is marked with the symbol ♀ (a stylized circle with a cross beneath). A good natal chart calculator will tell you right away: "Venus in Taurus in the 5th house" — that's the sign and house. Next you look at aspects to other planets.

Which Venus is considered strongest?

Classically — Venus in Taurus (rulership), Libra (rulership), and Pisces (exaltation). These give a natural ability to love and please. The "weakest" — in Scorpio, Aries (detriments) and Virgo (fall). But "weak" doesn't mean "bad" — just a different style of working with Venus.

What does a retrograde Venus in the natal chart mean?

About 7% of people are born with a retrograde Venus. It's a specific "rhythm of love": opening more slowly, more often living through returns and reconsiderations, having an unconventional taste. Not a "curse," just a different tempo. Many integrate it after 30, and then a retrograde Venus produces deeper, more conscious relationships.

Is Venus in synastry the most important compatibility indicator?

One of the main ones, especially in a love pair. Venus-Mars gives chemistry, Venus-Moon emotional compatibility, Venus-Saturn long-term distance. But not the only one. A full synastry is dozens of pairings, not one. Venus is the central indicator of "how it feels in love," but not of the whole pair.

Venus and money — does that really work?

Yes, in one specific sense: Venus is "money through pleasure," that is what you buy and spend on. A strong Venus often brings success in aesthetic industries (fashion, art, design, beauty). But "income" in general is more about Jupiter and the 2nd house than about Venus.

Can you 'improve' your Venus?

Not in a magical sense. Psychologically — yes. Working with Venus is about owning your style of love and your values, claiming the right to please and to love, healing old wounds connected to femininity or masculinity. It's part of maturity.