Free Venus Sign Calculator

Your Venus sign is the zodiac sign Venus occupied at your birth. It describes how you give and receive affection, what you find beautiful, and what you want from a partner. Venus stays within two signs of your Sun, so it is often, but not always, the same sign.

Venus moves a little over a degree a day and usually holds one sign for three to five weeks. Because it moves slowly compared with the Moon, your birthday usually identifies your Venus sign once the chart is calculated. You still enter a birth location because this tool casts a natal chart, and you need an accurate birth time for two things: your Venus house, and the rare case of being born on a day Venus changed signs.

Your Sun sign is the headline, the identity you are growing into. Your Venus sign is quieter, and for relationships it is often the more useful one. The Sun is who you are. Venus is how you love. Two people can share a Sun sign and want completely different things from a partner, because their Venus signs differ.

Venus never wanders far from the Sun. Its greatest distance, what astronomers call maximum elongation, is about 47 degrees, a little over a sign and a half. So your Venus sits in your Sun sign, one sign to either side, or, at the edge of that range, two signs away. A Capricorn Sun can only have Venus in Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, or Pisces. That narrow range is why a calculator beats guessing, and it lets you shortlist your Venus from your Sun sign alone. Once you have it, your rising sign and your full Sun, Moon, and rising combination fill in the rest of the personal chart.

Every Sun sign, and the five Venus signs it can produce:

The two-signs-away options at each end only happen when Venus is near its greatest distance from the Sun, so they are the least common. Your own sign is shown in bold in each row.

Your Venus house is the part of your birth chart Venus occupied when you were born, counted from your rising sign. It marks the area of life where your Venus themes (affection, beauty, pleasure, and money) actually play out: your relationships, your home, your work, your friendships. Finding it needs an accurate birth time, because the houses turn about one every two hours, so a guessed time can drop Venus in the wrong one.

Astrologers do not treat all twelve placements as equal, and the reason is dignity. Venus rules Taurus and Libra, so in those signs it loves on its own terms, sensual and steady in Taurus, fair and relational in Libra. It is exalted in Pisces, where the boundaries soften and affection flows without a wall around it, which the old texts read as love at its most generous.

The harder seats are the other three. Venus is in detriment in Aries and Scorpio, the signs opposite its own rulerships, where its taste for ease and harmony runs against Aries's rush and Scorpio's demand for total depth. And it is in fall in Virgo, where Venus wants to simply enjoy and the sign wants to improve, so affection arrives wrapped in a running edit. Dignity is not a grade. A Venus in fall is not less loving; it simply has to work against the grain to let pleasure be enough, and that friction often produces a rarer, more attentive kind of devotion. The calculator shows your dignity in the result panel so you can read your Venus sign with that context built in.

Venus is one of the first places astrologers look for chemistry. Comparing two people's Venus signs shows whether they speak the same love language: how each one gives affection, spends, and wants to be courted. Set one person's Venus against the other's Mars and you get the classic attraction contact. Neither guarantees a match, but together they describe how two people actually click.

Two Venus signs in the same element, say Taurus and Virgo, both earth, tend to value love in similar ways, which usually reads as easy comfort. Very different Venus signs can still work; they just have to translate for each other. The clearest way to see it is to run both charts through the synastry compatibility chart, which scores the real Venus and Mars contacts between you, or weigh a single connection with the soulmate synastry calculator. For the drive half of attraction, how each of you goes after what you want, find your Mars sign.

Venus spends about three to five weeks in each sign, moving a little over a degree a day, and works through all twelve signs in roughly ten to eleven months. Then it falls behind for the weeks it spends retrograde. The exact dates shift a little every year, so the table below covers the current stretch, and the calculator above settles any specific birthday.

Times shown in UTC; Venus can cross a sign boundary a day earlier or later in your own time zone, which is why a date-only lookup sometimes disagrees with a full chart. In 2026 Venus turns retrograde on October 3 in Scorpio, backs into Libra on October 25, then turns direct on November 14 and re-enters Scorpio on December 4, so those two signs appear twice. The dates nearly repeat on Venus's eight-year synodic cycle, so the pattern holds as a guide beyond 2027 too.

Roughly one person in fourteen is born during a Venus retrograde, when Venus appears to move backward from Earth's view for about forty days every eighteen months. Those retrogrades are not scattered at random: they recur in only about five points of the zodiac over an eight-year cycle, tracing a near-perfect five-petaled rose, so the same handful of signs carry Venus retrograde across a lifetime. Born under it, you may relate to love, beauty, and self-worth on your own timeline rather than the standard script. Old patterns ask to be reviewed; early relationships can feel like rework before they feel like progress. This is common and workable. It tends to show up as a slower, more inward road to knowing what you actually value, and as attractions that do not follow the rules everyone else seems to be playing by.

Venus also rose as either a morning star or an evening star on the day you were born, two faces the ancients named Phosphorus and Hesperus. It is a separate layer from your sign, tied to where Venus sat relative to the Sun, and it shifts the whole tone of your Venus. A morning-star Venus tends to act sooner and more openly in love; an evening-star Venus tends to reflect and arrive later. Find yours with the Venus morning or evening star calculator, or trace the full rhythm in the Venus phase calculator.

The placement comes from the same engine that runs every chart on Augurine, built on JPL ephemeris data, so the sign, degree, house, dignity, and retrograde status match a professional natal chart. Venus moves a little over a degree a day, which makes the sign stable for almost every birthday and the precise degree worth having. When you are ready to go deeper into love astrology, run your synastry compatibility chart or check a connection with the soulmate synastry calculator, and track when transiting Venus comes back to your natal spot with the Venus return calculator. For the other half of the attraction picture, how you chase and assert what you want, find your Mars sign.