What it stands for
Venus is charm, kindness and the wish to please. It loves beauty and harmony, art and lovely things, and the ease of good company.
A strong Venus draws help and friendship. People want to do you favours. Love and affection become a big part of your happiness.
The older books named its one weakness gently: it likes the easy road. Life can go so smoothly for a Venus person that the harder strengths never get built.
How it was read before
Venus is Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty. The older books called her the lesser fortune, the smaller of the two kindly planets beside Jupiter.
They said Venus is more personal than Jupiter. Jupiter's kindness reaches everyone, and Venus's kindness stays close to home.
She never strays far from the Sun, and she changes a great deal from sign to sign. Venus in Gemini loves very differently from Venus in Sagittarius.
Sit with this
Love begins with how you treat yourself.
Sit with this: what is one beautiful thing you can bring into your day, just because it makes you feel good?