Venus Opposition Jupiter Synastry: When What One of You Enjoys and What Widens the Other's World Face Each Other

Every birth chart has a Venus and a Jupiter, and they do different jobs. Venus is what you enjoy: your taste, your pleasures, how you show liking and friendship, and what makes an hour feel good. Jupiter is what widens your world: encouragement, generosity, curiosity, and the sense that there is room to grow. In this contact one person's Venus is about 180° from the other person's Jupiter, at opposite points of the zodiac.

An opposition usually joins two opposite signs, which belong to the same mode (cardinal, fixed or mutable: how a sign moves). (Usually, not always: near the edge of a sign the pattern can shift.) This page makes no claim from the shared mode. That is the geometry. The reading built on it is polarity: instead of standing side by side, the two sit facing each other across the whole circle, one straight line running through both. What you enjoy and what widens your world are on that same line, directly across from each other.

The link can run one way or both. Where it runs both ways, each of your Venus signs meets the other's Jupiter, and each of you has both.

Friends, siblings, colleagues, flatmates, a parent and their child, classmates or partners can all share this contact, and it is one among many in any two charts.

One thing this contact can give is a reply to a liking from the other side of the circle. Either of you may mention something you enjoy and hear an idea in return that you would not have thought of. Another is the chance to try something outside your own habit.

What each may want is to be asked before an offer is made, and to have a liking acknowledged before it is built on. Either of you may want a generous gesture accepted as meant. How closely a reply fits can change from one day to the next.

These are sketches, not reports: illustrations of how the contact might show up across different kinds of pairs.

• Siblings. Two siblings are asked to bring a dish to a family reunion. Each has brought a dish from the other's side of the recipe box, and they meet in the doorway holding them.
• Friends. Two friends reach a village flower show with a free afternoon. They agree to meet at the entrance at four, and each crosses the field twice to cover both corners.
• Parent and child. A parent and their child each list the shops on their street from memory. The lists name the same shops in a different order.
• Colleagues. Two colleagues staff a stall at a trade fair. They stand on opposite sides of the table, and each hands out sample sachets to the visitors facing them.
• Flatmates. Two flatmates share a weekly vegetable box. Each keeps a list of how it was used, and the lists name the same turnips on different days.
• Neighbours. Two neighbours each set a deckchair facing the other's across a shared path. Both chairs are still there at dusk.

In each sketch both people stand on opposite sides of the same thing and do the same kind of thing there.

Three more ordinary moments, offered as illustrations.

A market morning. Walking through the same stalls, the two of you may linger at opposite sides of them and meet in the middle with full bags. Either of you can find that cheerful, or find it scattered.

A recipe swap. When the two of you swap recipes, each may adapt the other's, and by the end the two versions may be quite unlike.

A road closure. On a long drive that has to turn back, the two of you may fill the extra hour in different ways, with the radio, the map, a story or a snack, and either of you may swap.

The older sources used here do not put Venus in one chart together with Jupiter in the other. Two passages name them together. Simmonite (1890, p. 130) speaks of Jupiter or Venus placed on the Sun, Moon, Part of Fortune (a calculated point; editorial gloss) or ascendant of the other person's chart. Wilson (*A Complete Dictionary of Astrology*, 1819, p. 381) speaks of the Lights (the Sun and Moon) in trine or sextile to each other, or in each other's places, or on the places of Jupiter or Venus; it concerns the Lights only. Neither relates Venus to Jupiter, and nothing from either is used here. Nothing in the sources used here tells an opposition from a square.

The distinction this page makes, that an opposition reads as polarity (it usually joins opposite signs that face each other across the circle), is based on the kinds of sign an opposition usually joins. It is an editorial reading, not something the older books say about Venus and Jupiter. The same goes for the rest of the page: what each of you gives and may want, and the sketches, which are illustrations.

• You each have a clear idea of a good time, and the ideas sit across from each other.
• A suggestion of yours has come back from the other with something unexpected added.
• You have both been the one who suggests and the one who is suggested to.
• A treat has turned into a conversation about what the treat was for.
• A plan has landed close to what each of you hoped one week and further off the next.