108,200,000 kilometers (67,200,000 miles)
0.616 Earth years (225 Earth days)
Composition: The atmosphere consists mainly of carbon dioxide, with clouds of sulfuric acid droplets whichtraps the Sun’s heat, resulting in surface temperatures over 470 degrees Celsius (880 degrees Fahrenheit). Venus has an iron core about 3,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) in radius.
Venus has no global magnetic field, though its core iron content is similar to that of Earth, Venus rotates too slowly to generate the type of magnetic field that Earth has.
Zodiac Sign Rulership: Taurus, Libra
In the birth chart, Venus, like Mercury, lies within the orbit of the earth. If Mercury can be likened to electricity in the form of information, then Venus can be likened to the magnetic field generated by the electric current. One of the meanings of Venus is therefore “personal magnetism”.
In mythology Venus is the goddess of love. In the birth chart, Venus represents the social and love urge, and the need for harmony and exchange of feelings and affection with others. Venus is our need to form relationships and our power to attract such relationships. It is also our sense of values, based on what attracts or repels us.
Venus’ sign position and any aspect to Venus shows how we express these needs to others and the kind of response we need in order to feel in harmony. If Venus is adversely aspected theses responses may not always be what we consciously desire but are often necessary in order to force us to recognise some unexpressed part of ourselves.
Venus represents how you express your emotions within love, marriage and other personal relationships. The sign it occupies indicates your attitude towards money, possessions and your aesthetic values.
If you do not know your Venus Sign find out with your Soul Profile
You love as a child loves . .
seeing human relationships as being natural and uncomplicated – at least, at first. You are generous, guileless and direct – and expect others to be the same. You’re crestfallen when you find that they’re not, but not as a rule heart-broken. You get back up again as quickly as you fell in love in the first place. This impetuosity of yours certainly possesses a quality that is immediately attractive to others.
It also makes you very impatient to give, gain or receive love. So much so that you are inclined to mistake lust for love and it takes a while before you’re able to spot the difference. There is something impish and naughty about you that can cause others to do childlike things they wouldn’t do normally. This has its good and bad sides in that you are able to introduce a refreshingly primitive glee into your social or romantic spheres, but you can lead others on and then be gone. Such a ‘love them and leave them’ style can cut both ways you will find.
Yours is an earthy sense . .
of love and harmony. You have a strong feel for – or actually embody – what is physically attractive. Such awareness of what satisfies the physical senses can make you successful in a number of areas: art – especially singing, or at least you have a pleasant-sounding speaking voice; cooking and other means of providing comfort and enjoyment; consumerism – you may have a good market sense; healing – for your sense of touch can be highly evolved.
Not surprisingly, you need shows of physical affection as evidence of your worth and desirability. This can go to extremes in the form of passionate possessiveness – but indulging in some sensuous or artistic pursuit that is more under your personal control could assuage this. Rather than overdoing it with the creature comforts you could simply commune with Nature, which will give you a feeling of satisfaction.
You like to keep love at . .
an adolescent level of expression. You like the flirting, chasing and love games and do not like it when things get too heavy or committed. For you love is in bud rather than full bloom, so if you want something to last, you have to give it a chance to develop, be more steadfast and not abandon it to the winds of Fate. For you love and beauty are things of the mind and so you may well have some literary ability.
In real life though, your predilection for keeping things light and airy can be a serious hazard to maintaining a mature relationship and your natural flightiness would be better or well employed in some art form like dance or song. In essence, you’re having a relationship with yourself. As long as this does not become too narcissistic and wrap you up in yourself, you do keep the love stakes fresh and interesting.
For you, love is bound up inextricably . .
with security; affection cannot exist without care. There has to be something traditional and familiar about your partner, a feeling of belonging, an involvement with and acceptance of their family and your own. The love that was (or was not) forthcoming from your mother greatly affects how much you show and need affection.
Being unsure of mother-love would incline you to cling blindly to a partner. Your sympathetic and tender style of loving should not be under-rated – go on strike if it is and they’ll soon come running! On the other hand, beware of your tendency to behave in a sulky manner when reactions to past hurts are triggered by normal emotional confrontations, because this can hatch a game of cat and mouse, which is the last thing that you need. You express love and beauty best in a homely, private way.
You are the archetypal romantic . . .
On the face of it you’re madly affectionate, filled with fiery passions and inject masses of fun and imagination into your affairs of the heart. Consequently you can transport your paramour to previously undreamed of emotional heights. Inevitably though, this means that you have to understand that you’re playing the role of king to your queen, or vice versa, as far as your love life is concerned.
In other words, the royal qualities of respect and nobility must be very alive in your breast if a relationship is to survive or live up to your fairytale expectations. Respect means that you must be mindful that both of you are entitled to equal amounts of freedom and commitment. Nobility means that both of you must behave in a manner that commands respect. The salient factor is that first you must set this example in order that your mate may be truly impressed by your great love – great because it is both generous of spirit and respectful of the other’s individuality.
You are a perfectionist . . .
and critical where love and art are concerned. At its most extreme, this can find you left on the shelf. More usually though you demand – consciously or unconsciously – that your partner or other people in general subscribe to some closely defined code of demeanor and social conduct. This is really hiding some impurity, some feeling of unlovability, that exists within you.
You’re afraid of showing your earthy or dirty bits. What’s really curious however is that you periodically go right over the top and are decidedly dissolute and even promiscuous by way of release. Essentially you’re after accepting yourself, warts and all so that then you’ll be able to love and be loved without interminably checking everything. A very positive part of your nature is that you can tune in very finely to another’s beauty and love needs. This also shows itself as a fine design sense if you are artistically inclined.
You are a social or artistic touchstone . . .
and therefore have a natural sense of beauty and harmony, which you express in a social or artistic way. The inherent weakness of your aesthetic awareness is that you are very easily attracted to good-looking surface appearances – especially in a sexual, glamorous or romantic context. This is a bittersweet situation for you because your undeniable charm or artistry has no trouble attracting popularity, pleasure and even wealth, but you can become a slave to your vanity and appetites. Nonetheless, you are still a social or creative asset – and you certainly know what pleases.
You have a sense of love’s bounty . . .
and inexhaustibility, which you aim to express. This means that you can warm and inspire another’s heart, or merely squander your affections in a rather wanton fashion so you need to discover and establish an agreed moral or religious basis to a relationship in order to find and maintain a harmonious one.
Having said this though, it’s probably also necessary for you to sow some wild oats before trying to settle down. You’re the type that can wander only too easily if you feel that the other side of the hill is greener. For you, love is about exploration so seeking it can lead you far afield. Your generally positive attitude towards relating would be well expressed by your always thinking in terms of what you have gained rather than lost through love. You see love, and art too, as the great teacher.
You have a sense of love’s bounty . . .
and inexhaustibility, which you aim to express. This means that you can warm and inspire another’s heart, or merely squander your affections in a rather wanton fashion so you need to discover and establish an agreed moral or religious basis to a relationship in order to find and maintain a harmonious one.
Having said this though, it’s probably also necessary for you to sow some wild oats before trying to settle down. You’re the type that can wander only too easily if you feel that the other side of the hill is greener. For you, love is about exploration so seeking it can lead you far afield. Your generally positive attitude towards relating would be well expressed by your always thinking in terms of what you have gained rather than lost through love. You see love, and art too, as the great teacher.
You view love and art . . .
and the values concerning them, very much in a traditional light. Unless something or someone is tried and true through the passage of time you’re not likely to trust your sentiments, talents or possessions with them. This inflexible dependence that you have upon fidelity, constancy and ‘work well done’ ostensibly makes for your being quite reliable as you give value for money or time spent on you or paid to you.
But your insistence upon trustworthiness can become a blind to your own emotional shortcomings, that is, a distrust based on subjective fear rather than objective conclusion. What can ensue from this is either you or your partner suddenly being very unreliable; or your being without anyone at all; or severe limitations materially as a result of not giving more of yourself to the world; or marrying or being married for money or status rather than love. Track down the cause of any deep distrust and then you and others will be as reliable as you think you and they ought to be.
You are trying to introduce . . .
a measure of detachment and freedom into your relationships and into your interaction with society generally. What this means primarily is that you require a lover to be a friend, for when such is the case, you are able to look at each other as human beings with individual ways of living rather than as being extensions of, and totally answerable to, each other. However, such a liberal attitude does require an individual moral code that you live by – as distinct from having no code at all.
Without this code – which is really a sense of commitment to your own principles that overrides emotional game-playing – relationships can float way on the breeze as free and easiness turns out to be a case of hedging your bets. In other words, not being committed to anything. If you are artistically inclined, you are drawn to the avant-garde.
Your sense of love and beauty . .
are never without sensitivity, imagination and compassion. This does make you ‘all heart’ and therefore you’re vulnerable and very prone to being taken advantage of emotionally so you have to learn to be more discriminating in your choice of partner and in how much of yourself you give away. Anyhow, this total giving of yourself is not all it seems because, as much as you want to see everything in your partner, you want them to see everything in you.
This is what I call the ‘Gallon in a Pint pot’ syndrome. Your partner can be drowned by love and affection, feel unable to live up to it and possibly go off with someone else who they feel is not so demanding, or treat you badly for not being aware of their darker side. Alternatively, such disillusionment may cause you to abandon your mate yourself, or be promiscuous in your desire to love the world. To rectify all this and allot the right amount of your fulsome love nature to a partner, I advise you to invest most of it in some form of artistic expression or care work, like nursing. In any event, the use of discrimination is the key to expressing your love of all things.
