Love Astrology
Venus in the Signs
How You Love, Sign by Sign
Venus describes how you love, what you find beautiful, and what makes you feel valued. Its sign gives those preferences a particular style. These twelve guides follow Venus through each sign, covering how you show affection, what draws you in, the traditional condition of Venus there, and the growth it asks of you.
Venus at a Glance
- Rules
- Taurus and Libra
- Exalted in
- Pisces
- Detriment in
- Aries and Scorpio
- Fall in
- Virgo
- Daily motion
- About 1.2 degrees
- Distance from Sun
- Within about 47 degrees
Source boundary
Venus is an exact natal placement and an interpretive symbol. The sign it occupies describes a love style and a set of tendencies, not proof of compatibility, character, or how a relationship will turn out.
Venus by Sign
Choose a sign to read how that Venus loves, what it finds attractive, its traditional dignity, and the growth edge it carries.
Venus in Aries
Fire · Cardinal · Venus in detriment
The spark before the substance
Venus in Taurus
Earth · Fixed · Venus in domicile
Venus at home: slow, sensual, for keeps
Venus in Gemini
Air · Mutable · Venus without major dignity
Seduced through language
Venus in Cancer
Water · Cardinal · Venus without major dignity
Loves by taking care of you
Venus in Leo
Fire · Fixed · Venus without major dignity
Wants to be adored, adores back at full volume
Venus in Virgo
Earth · Mutable · Venus in fall
Love shown in what it does
Venus in Libra
Air · Cardinal · Venus in domicile
Venus at home: partnership as native tongue
Venus in Scorpio
Water · Fixed · Venus in detriment
No shallow end
Venus in Sagittarius
Fire · Mutable · Venus without major dignity
Falls for a horizon
Venus in Capricorn
Earth · Cardinal · Venus without major dignity
Won't waste love on what won't last
Venus in Aquarius
Air · Fixed · Venus without major dignity
Best friend with chemistry
Venus in Pisces
Water · Mutable · Venus exalted
Venus exalted: love without a wall
What the sign of Venus changes
Your Sun sign describes your core identity. Your Venus sign has a narrower job that often matters more in relationships. It describes how you give and receive affection, what you find beautiful, and what reads as love to you. Two people with the same Sun can want completely different things from a partner because their Venus signs differ.
Venus also governs pleasure, taste, money, and what you treat as valuable. Its sign therefore colors more than romance. It shapes the rooms you want to be in, the way you spend, and the standard of beauty you carry without thinking about it.
Reading the dignity of Venus by sign
Traditional astrology rates how comfortably a planet operates in each sign. Venus rules Taurus and Libra, so it works from home in both. It is exalted in Pisces, where its generosity runs highest. It sits in detriment in Aries and Scorpio, the signs opposite its rulerships, and in fall in Virgo, opposite its exaltation. In the remaining signs it is peregrine, neither strengthened nor weakened by dignity.
Dignity describes the conditions Venus has to work with, rather than your capacity to love well. A Venus in detriment works against the grain of its sign, and that friction can produce a more deliberate approach to love. Each sign guide names the dignity and explains what it means in practice.
Which sign is your Venus in?
Venus never travels more than about 47 degrees from the Sun, so your Venus is in your Sun sign or within two signs of it. The calculator settles which.
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Enter your birth details to see your Venus sign, degree, house when birth time is known, dignity, and retrograde status, plus what all twelve Venus signs reveal about how you love.