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Venus in Astrology
"Venus is joyful in spirit, possesses a beautiful body, is
splendorous and has lovely eyes; she is the
inspirer of poets, is watery and airy in
constitution (kapha and vata), and has curly
hair."
Venus manifests the feminine spirit; she is well known as the
Goddess of love and beauty. Our Venus shows our
affection and sense of harmony in life. In the
chart of the male, she represents the wife or
lover. She is our appreciation of the beautiful
and as such represents our aesthetic sense.
Venus is the significater of art, poetry,
painting, music and dance. She is our muse in
life, our sense of the beloved that draws out
our creative expression. She indicates our
sensitivity, refinement and gentleness.
On the lower or outward level, Venus shows our seeking for
pleasure, comfort and luxury. She represents the
pleasure of the senses and the comforts of the
body. She is sexuality and sexual attraction and
serves to make either the woman or the man more
appealing to the opposite sex. She brings wealth
as an adornment. She is beauty, style and
elegance; the refinement of wealth and not just
crude accumulation. Her concern is not just with
quantity but with quality, with good taste.
She likes gems, antiques and things of special value. She
wants not just for the joy of possessing but to
have the adulation of others. Yet thereby she is
also inclined to be vain, superficial and
affected--mere show. She likes not only to
exhibit herself and her own beauty but to
display her adornments which serve to embellish
her. She demands that we please her and that we
be pleasing to her. She can become the pleasure
that dissipates, exhausts and debilitates, the
self-indulgence that can destroy us. In this
regard, she is the seductress.
She is attractive and fascinating. The web of her power can
catch our energy like a spider and drain away
our fire, our positive will in life, pursuing
her favor which is often fickle or hard to get,
impossible to attain. She is dreamy, wispy and
hard to hold, and thereby controls us by our
seeking of her. She may never let us attain her
for her joy is in being desired, not in being
possessed. Inwardly, Venus is the morning star,
the light of inspiration which is the first
spark of the Sun of truth.
Venus is our aspiration to the good, the beautiful and the
pure, our devotion to truth. She is our love
that in its true nature is the love of truth.
She is our sensitivity that becomes sensuality
through its impressionability; but her basic
nature is good. Such a pure Venus comes out in
association with Jupiter and Mercury. Her vain
side manifests in alliance with Mars, which
causes an excess of passion, emotion, sexuality
and sensuality. Venus shows our natural tendency
to beautify things, to make things reflect their
pure or astral forms.
Our Venus works on our world to help bring it into harmony
with its inner meaning as a play of delight. For
Venus all is play (which on a lower level means
"all is show"), and it is the pathos, the drama
of the play that matters to her, not any
practical or objective reality. Venus gives the
sentiment that would sacrifice a kingdom for
one's true love. The gods, the devas, are
Venusian creatures and through them is the play
of beauty in the world. Venus represents the
higher astral and is the star of our astral
light.
She opens us up to the kingdoms, the realms of beauty of the
gods. These include not only the realms of art
and myth but also many psychic abilities, powers
of visualization and creative direction of the
mind force. On the highest levels she opens us
up to the heavens of devotions, wherein we can
commune with the Divine it the form that most
appeals to us.
In Indian mythology Venus is the teacher of the demons or
titans, the Asuras, as to subdue and influence
them cannot be done by force but only by charm
and grace. Venus also gives power. It is not
only the power
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