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Venus in the twelve signs
Your Moon says what soothes you. Your Venus says what draws you, and what you consider worth keeping.
Venus (♀) describes attraction and value. What appeals to you, how you go about courting someone, what you find beautiful, what you are prepared to spend money on, and what you count as worth having — all of that is Venus. She governs the emotional life and the aesthetic one at the same time, which is why these articles talk about art and money alongside love.
Her sign says how you love rather than whom: a Venus in Aries pursues, a Venus in Taurus waits and then stays, a Venus in Aquarius refuses to belong to anyone. Each placement carries its own gift and its own bill, and no arrangement is better than another.
Unlike the Moon, Venus does retrograde, and it matters. A retrograde Venus in a natal chart often weighs heavily among the birth dominants, since she is a personal planet and this is rarer than a retrograde Mercury — so every article here has a section on what retrogradation changes for that sign.
Not sure which Venus is yours? She stays in a sign for roughly three to five weeks, so your birth date is usually enough. To see how yours meets someone else's, the place to start is synastry.
✦The twelve Venus placements, in zodiac order
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