Venus aspects
What the tradition holds about the Venus at an angle to each of the other bodies. An aspect on its own is geometry; what the older sources actually discuss is a particular pair at a particular angle, and they treat each one as its own subject.
6 pairings curated here, each traced to a work and a page you can open for free. 6 also have a longer piece on what the pairing looks like in a life. Anything involving Pluto is absent and will stay absent: it was discovered in 1930, after every work this site is able to cite.
Venus and Sun
- Sun conjunct Venus· also written Venus conjunct Sun
- The only aspect these two can form — one 1918 source notes Venus never reaches a sextile, trine, square or opposition to the Sun — and a common one, so having it distinguishes little. Alan Leo separates the Sun approaching Venus, which he reads as love of pleasure, generosity and warm feelings with social advantages, from the Sun separating from it, which he gives fewer social desires and a more temperate nature. The same 1918 source adds a fondness for music, art and poetry, and an ease in company that wins friends and keeps them.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), pp. 134–135Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 185–186
Venus and Moon
- Moon conjunct Venus· also written Venus conjunct Moon
- One 1918 source groups the conjunction with the parallel, sextile and trine, and reads the group as oratorical ability with a fruitful imagination, and a love of pleasure, music and art. It describes an engaging personality — kindly, affectionate and sympathetic, and very attractive to the opposite sex — and counts the whole group as tending toward general success in life.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 233
- Moon sextile Venus· also written Venus sextile Moon
- Sixty degrees apart. One 1918 source takes the sextile with the conjunction and trine, and gives them oratorical ability and a fruitful imagination together with a love of pleasure, music and art. It calls the personality engaging, kindly, affectionate and sympathetic, and very attractive to the opposite sex, and holds that these aspects tend toward general success in life.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 233
- Moon square Venus· also written Venus square Moon
- Ninety degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the square with the opposition, and reads the pair as a liability to slander and public scandal. It holds the person to be fickle and inconstant in their affections, and sensual by nature — inclined, in its own image, to flit from flower to flower with little regard for the sorrows caused by playing with other people's hearts.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 233–234
- Moon trine Venus· also written Venus trine Moon
- A third of the circle apart. One 1918 source reads oratorical ability and a fruitful imagination here, with a love of pleasure, music and art. It describes an engaging personality, very attractive to the opposite sex because kindly, affectionate and sympathetic, and counts the trine — with the conjunction and sextile — as tending toward general success in life.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 233
- Moon opposite Venus· also written Venus opposite Moon
- A hundred and eighty degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the opposition together with the square, and gives the pair a liability to slander and public scandal. It reads the person as fickle and inconstant in their affections, of a sensual nature, moving from one attachment to the next without much regard for the sorrow that causes.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 233–234
Which of these you have
The birth chart page works out every aspect in your own chart from your date, time and place of birth, and shows the entry below the matching row. Nothing is transmitted; it is calculated on your device.
For what the five angles are — the geometry, the orbs, and which pairs can never form which aspects — see aspects.