Yesterday, I treated myself to an astrology/tarot reading. Yes, readers get readings too 🙂 and towards the end he told me that I was a sweet person. And this struck me because I have a distressed Venus (Venus in a tsquare) and don’t think of myself as sweet. I’m also a Cancer Sun. Grumpy on the outside. And my Virgo Rising (and Moon Pluto conjunction) gets all exacting and strategic and impulsive and… controlling? Nah, not me 😉
But I kept thinking about this hmm hmm hmm am I sweet? Was he just saying that because he is sweet? This astrologer has a significant amount of Libra in his chart. I do not. Taurus and Libra = Venus = the Goddess of Love! I have SATURN (grrr) in Taurus. So how could I be sweet? And then I remember my Venus in Leo sextile Jupiter in Libra. Okay. Maybe.
Still, I decided to research this and go in search of sweet. If a distressed Venus can actually BE sweet. And I think the bottom line is that the Venus energy IS a bit clogged. Doesn’t mean she’s nonexistent (just like our retrograde planet talk from yesterday). But the energy needs effort and adjustment to get sweetly flowing. Conscious simple effort so that the Venus nature (my Venus is in the 12th House) becomes more apparent and the fix-it Virgo style gets downsized.
Last night I asked one of my best friends: am I sweet? He paused. That was my answer 😉 We had been joking earlier that day about being “partly cloudy” so that was his answer. Partly cloudy, partly sunny, how much chance of rain?
But then this morning I asked my quadruple Taurus roommate and she said yes, that I DO indeed have a sweet nature and that she can feel from me that I “just want her to be happy” which is so funny because that’s a phrase my mother used to say about me, “just wanting me to be happy.”
So there you have it. Despite differing opinions 😉 I am going to embrace my sweetness. Who we are and our self-perceptions can be radically different. My Venus square Saturn may not feel sweet at all but somehow… there’s more.
Are you sweet? What do people say about you?
xo
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13 thoughts on “In Search Of Sweet: Venus In The Natal Chart”
I am called sweet often it seems. I have a strong sagittarius stellium (which you wouldn’t think spells sweetness) but my cancer rising is what does it. Also my moon opposite pluto has brought me to place where I understand deep and dark emotions…I can be sweet to those wounded people who NEED that sweetness. The world can be dark…and because of the pain I fee around me from others, I add sweetness to their lives. The sag in me speaks in aphorisms and personal experiences, and the cancer shows concern and care for the other person. I kinda like sweet.
Also, I think you are sweet Aliza! Genuinely caring in your manner of expression.
Thanks 🙂 I think Sag is definitely sweet! Often smiling sweet smiles 🙂
I’ve been called “sweet, kind” things like that. I’ve had a friend recently tell me that I’m so adorable that she wanted to squeeze me.
I have Moon conjunct Venus in Gemini.
It sextiles Jupiter, trines Pluto, squares Pisces Mars, inconjuncts Uranus/ascendant, and is also conjunct my South Node and Vertex in the 8th. But in Equal House, they’re in the 7th.
I wish that I still *felt* that sweetness. And I worry about anything “cloying” – I have that Hallmark part of my brain, but those movies turn my stomach at times.
I also have Jupiter, Neptune and Mercury trine my MC. Like I said, I wish I could still *feel* that way. It’s jarring when someone compliments me, and I’m feeling so beaten down and depressed, somewhat bitter and lonely, and I think, “Wha??? I’m sweet, lovely, and one of someone’s favourite people??” It’s lovely to hear, but damn, how do I feel that way again? Bullying had me feeling like a stain on humanity when I was younger, and I feel more like I’m turning into a tough old broad (at the grand age of 37). Some people still see an innocence that I don’t feel anymore.
By the way, I think you’re sweet – in a good way.
thank u 🙂
I think Venus in 12th house is the reason that you don’t see it. I read somewhere that we don’t ‘see’ our own planets in the 12th, but others can. It is debatable but from my experience it is true. I have Venus in 12th house (Venus is also my chart ruler), people never called me sweet to my face, but they often treat me like I am about to break into pieces. This impression merges with the tough and bitch-like attitude that my Sun square Pluto imprints and you can figure out what comes out… something weird and pretty unstable…I like to call it being a bitch with a heart of gold!
Ooooh sun square pluto – not that’s a special aspect!!
Never been called sweet. Usually don’t feel sweet. But I’ll be there for you when nobody else will.
Sun-Saturn-Jupiter-Mercury-Pluto in Libra. Saturn-Jupiter-Mercury-Pluto-Venus: 7th house.
I’ve been described frequently as sweet, yes 😉 Sweet, cute, adorable, The Nicest, etc.
I think it makes my Aries Rising less confrontational and much more playful, like a puppy who bites you but only meant it in fun!
Wow missing words and letters. Not sure what happened!
My depositor for my chart IS Venus, I have Jupiter in Libra. So I CAN be sweet, yes. But I also have Mars in Scorpi 12th house sextile Moon/Pluto (conj) in my 9th and 10th, I am sensitive and if my prickly Virgo Moon is hurt, you won’t see my anger (Mars) outright…but you will feel it.
I’ve been called sweet. I’m not sure if I consider myself sweet though. But it seems people may associate more Libran characteristics with me than I do with myself. But I have nothing in Taurus or Libra (which also happens to be my ASC). And my Venus is afflicted, which I think it would make me more bitter than anything else. *shrug*
I sense your sweetness. Dare I say it… kind of an innocence?