I wanted to use the word pathos but pathos implies pity and it’s not pity that gets inspired in me. It’s feeling. A dramatic arc to his life that I feel.
My Venus is in Leo. I don’t always identify with it – the desire for the drama the big gesture.
It can be the way they live – even if the way they live… how to put it… even if the way they live is not AcademyAwards. It’s more Off-Off-Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway 🙂
Some of the best writing and art and acting you can find is found Off-Off Broadway. My short plays have been there. I know how it is.
My Venus is in the 12th House but it’s still Leo. Hidden Leo. And I like to read descriptions of the planets in the signs to see if I recognize myself. And my Venus in Leo never made that much sense to me until this morning when I realized, partly, why I was attracted to a certain someone. Venus is what we prefer. What draws us in.
For me, drama is depth. Not melodrama. Real drama when the emotional intensity is genuine. This is not a contradiction. The feelings that I put in my plays are real. The characters are real.
So when I read that Venus in Leo loves to be the center of attention or is caught up in clothing and appearances, I don’t relate. And I don’t even think of myself as all that theatrical. It’s what I feel from the OTHER.
Look deeply into someone, without trying, just by knowing them, if you shush up your own stuff, you will feel their arc and their journey and their sorrow and without pity. And nothing needs to be done with it. You feel it. The energy of his life (soul energy?) draws me in.
Is that love? The energy of a life that draws you in? No, that’s not all it is.
Funny thoughts for a Thursday morning.
My Venus in Leo wants someone who doesn’t give up, doesn’t stop trying. The drama of the journey of a life.
Does your Venus fit you?
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18 thoughts on “Does Your Venus Fit You?”
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I have Venus in gemini in my 1st house.
Attracted to air signs!
Hey there 🙂 Glad you found me!
Rethinking this less somberly. Aqu Asc + Gem Moon+Venus in Libra. Airy? Windstorm! This may explain my attraction to unconventional boys who my girlfriends tease me about: geeky, offbeat, talkative yet shy. Aesthetically, I tend to find more beauty and comfort in a room strewn with psychology and metaphysical books, offbeat painting work in progres grandpa sweater over T of band no one knows but me. Hair that can’t stay combed, state of art coffeemaker. Ooh now I wanna hug on mismatched furniture. Sigh.
Venus in Gemini, and it does.
I like the lightness, but its lightness doesn’t lack depth – it’s easy for some to think so, though. I don’t easily commit, but that doesn’t mean that I’m wanting others, it just means that I like my freedom. I love to be with others, and love my alone-time, although I need people right now, which I don’t like.
Venus in Libra, 8th. I think my gemini moon n aqu ascend tangled together resulting in my curiousity, love to talk to individuals, that is where my aquarian altruism manifests-i cant grasp humanity in faceless enormity. I want to help individuals. Replace water jug with coffee cups. I had an astrologer say language/conversation is my foreplay. It manifests in
my falling in love or being loved at a weird time of 8th house activity. I have been in multiple relationships or almost did when a person has just or is about to lose a loved one. It isnt like i loiter @ hospices n wakes-or else a guy who saw me like a buddy or sister will seek me out to work thru aftermath n then either decide they love me (5 years after shootin me down) or a man will break up w/me admit that he feels reminded he was too close or vulnerable n doesnt want to be with someone who saw him at his worst n loved him anyway. So i get 8th housed just as i was allowing my very guarded soft heart to peek out n open. Sucks!
Aliza,
I have a question and it’s very off topic… Do you ever overlay your clients’ charts with your own? Do you have some kind of an affinity or contact points with a lot/many/most of us? 🙂
(a bit of random curiosity)
Oh, and Gem Venus in 8H. No conflict there, I think I’m it, but the rest of the chart reinforces it, so it’s hard to say if it’s just the Venus effect.
Hi P.!
Never occurred to me to do so. When I get a new chart to peruse and work with… I want to tune-in to them. I absent myself (I think it happens on its own) except in that I… feel like I’m… for lack of a better word.. channeling what I need to tell them at that moment. I have a Pisces North Node. I want to be an instrument of Spirit. I feel embarrassed to say all this but it is part of how I think of this work and what I’m doing here.
I think it works in the other direction though. That i’m pretty open about my chart and some peeps want to work with me because my chart may be similar to theirs and they feel i may be able to understand them —
i’ve had clients though with no chart sims at all — Although we all have the signs *somewhere*. An example, I have no Aqua but have worked with mega Aquas. I have a stellium in the 11th. I understand uniqueness 🙂
something in my writing tends to appeal i think–
I’m not really sure if I’ve had mainly sims or diffs. Have had a lot of clients since I started blogging. Would really have to sort through. One thing I’ve noticed though is a fair amount of Sag Sun people – and I have no Sag at all but all my life have had Sag friends who chased me to be their friend 🙂
I’m trying to think if there’s a Sun sign for example I’ve never read for and I honestly don’t know.
Off topic questions r always welcome btw 🙂
Thinking a little more about this… I’ve definitely seen a lot of water signs. Earth too (maybe not so many Cap. More Cap rising i think) . Fire def. I also get Tarot clients and I don’t know their charts…. More Sag than the other fire signs…. I think Air is pretty well represented too. Oh well. I’ll have to tally it up some day and see..
Venus in Libra = Fairness.
In the 8th = …not sure.
Passion, obsession, crisis, transformation, depth, unconscious motivation…What you find beautiful has some darkness to it
and you may not be as fair as you think 😉
Ouch! I guess that explains the eye for an eye mentality that I tend to struggle with. There is no place for revenge in love.
My Venus in Aries in the 12th house sits on my AS – when I was born it was retro 29 degrees – I always though of it as a karmic debt – although I am drawn to brave people – rebels – the underbelly of society – yet when I think of her (My Arian Venus) I think of Athena or Xena archtypes – LOL wishful thinking I guess – strong, enduring and hidden….
not wishful thinking at all. Why not? Aries the Warrior even Rx! Spiritual Warrior: Venus 12
My Venus is in Aries (and my Mars is in Aries opposite Pluto) and I need instant gratification. Not being able to get the person of my desires drives me completely mad. In fact, I am going through self-induced heartbreak right now becauuse I am a married and have a crush (who is also married) and I can’t do anything about it. I just have to let it go. This goes completely beyond my nature and the pain is heavy, let me tell you.
It doesn’t even really have to do with the person but the power play. I want to win!
Gotta stop this pattern but with this Venus placement it seems practically impossible, plus I have Pluto squaring my Venus right now and I feel completely out of control.
Deep breaths and lots of exercise. : )
Find your wise mind, Sara. What’s most important. Figure that out. Your behavior will follow.
I don’t know what that is. I am trying so hard but it is alluding me. I really feel like a part of me is breaking down to show me what you call my wise mind but it’s still lurking in the shadows. The pain of being apart from yourself is just awful.
I know this is Pluto’s work and I have to go through it. The notion of a whole, authentic self at the end of the road is worth it, but then comes the fear that I will fail and never be able to shatter the illusion that is preventing me from seeing who I really am.
I just want love.
Much of what you said i feel in my life presently even similar situations. Love is love. Wdd are delusional if we can as human beings who or what we love. It is tragic to be in a place where you feel you have to try to love a person and as tragic when you feel you should stop because we cant. It s hell doing what is proper/ethical vs what is right. If that makes sense? Loving the man i do feels right to my heart. The people we would hurt keeps us proper. And hurting. I just cant unlove tho. 8th house blues.