♀Venus
Love · beauty · value · pleasure
Rules: Taurus & Libra · Detriment in Aries & Scorpio
What you find beautiful — and what you're willing to pay for.
Mythology
Aphrodite / Venus — beauty, love, sex, art. Born from sea foam in the most famous origin story. The planet of pleasure has always also been the planet of value: aesthetics and economics share a root.
What it means in a chart
Venus governs how you love and what you find lovable. It's also your relationship to money — what you'll spend on, what you collect, what you consider 'worth it'. Pleasure and value are two sides of the same coin.
Retrograde
**Venus retrogrades every ~18 months for 40 days.** A relationship review and a money review. Exes resurface. The aesthetic you committed to feels off. The work: don't make new commitments in love or finance during the retrograde; revisit and rebalance what's already there. Famously the period to NOT cut your hair or get tattoos.
How to read it in your chart
Venus sign = your love language and aesthetic. Venus house = where you find joy. Venus aspects to other planets shape the texture of your relationships.
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