Venus Aspects: 38 Combinations with the Other Nine Planets
Venus is what you like and what attracts you, and how you show affection and spend money. It never gets more than about 47° from the Sun, so it always sits within two signs of your Sun sign. When Venus forms an aspect with another planet, the two forces have to be read together. Below, a table first lists Venus’s aspects to the other nine planets with how often each occurs, followed by a one-line reading for every combination; each has its own detailed page.
Venus aspects table
| Venus and | Conjunction | Sextile | Square | Trine | Opposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Conjunction 15.4% | — | — | — | — |
| Moon | Conjunction 5.5% | Sextile 7.7% | Square 10.5% | Trine 9.9% | Opposition 5.4% |
| Mercury | Conjunction 13.5% | Sextile 9.7% | — | — | — |
| Mars | Conjunction 8.9% | Sextile 7% | Square 8% | Trine 6.5% | Opposition 1.6% |
| Jupiter | Conjunction 5.5% | Sextile 5.8% | Square 8.2% | Trine 6.9% | Opposition 3.9% |
| Saturn | Conjunction 4.7% | Sextile 5.6% | Square 8% | Trine 7.5% | Opposition 4.1% |
| Uranus | Conjunction 4.4% | Sextile 5.6% | Square 7.7% | Trine 7.7% | Opposition 4.2% |
| Neptune | Conjunction 4.7% | Sextile 5.5% | Square 7.8% | Trine 7.7% | Opposition 4.1% |
| Pluto | Conjunction 4.3% | Sextile 5.6% | Square 7.6% | Trine 7.6% | Opposition 4.5% |
Percentages are the share of 8,401 charts of people born in Taipei between 1960 and 2005 with random birth times that have the aspect, using this site’s orbs. A dash marks an aspect that cannot occur in the sky.
Venus can only conjoin the Sun
Venus never strays far from the Sun in the sky, at most about 48° in our calculations, short of the distance a sextile needs. So the only major aspect between Venus and the Sun is the conjunction. Mercury and Venus are never more than about 74° from each other, so between them only the conjunction and the sextile occur. With the Moon, and with the seven planets from Mars to Pluto, there is no such limit and all five aspects appear.
When Venus is unaspected
Now and then Venus forms no major aspect with any of the other nine planets; it is then called unaspected. In our calculations, Venus is unaspected in about 4.8% of charts. Tradition holds that an unaspected planet works more on its own: what it stands for may come and go, or only become obvious at a certain stage of life.
Venus’s aspects to each planet, in one line
Venus and the Sun
- Sun Conjunct Venus: With Venus beside the Sun, your sense of self is bound up with the people and things you love. You are warm and attractive, and you care a great deal about whether you are liked.
Venus and the Moon
- Moon Conjunct Venus: With the Moon conjunct Venus, emotional needs and a love of lovely things merge into one. You’re gentle and likable, and you dread a sour atmosphere and being given the cold shoulder.
- Moon Sextile Venus: With the Moon sextile Venus, two signs apart, feelings and tastes are compatible. You have potential for tending relationships and enjoying life’s pleasures, and it grows the more thought you give it.
- Moon Square Venus: With the Moon square Venus, your emotional needs and your way of showing love don’t line up. You long for closeness and often feel unsatisfied, and along the way you learn to be good to yourself first.
- Moon Trine Venus: With the Moon trine Venus, in signs of the same element, feelings and tastes connect naturally. You’re mild, well liked, and good at enjoying life, and comfort can make you unwilling to change.
- Moon Opposite Venus: With the Moon opposite Venus, your own emotional needs and the wish to be liked stand at opposite ends. You often see the gap in a partner and learn to look after both sides.
Venus and Mercury
- Mercury Conjunct Venus: With Mercury conjunct Venus, your thinking and your tastes are tied together. You speak with tact, your writing has flavor, and you naturally phrase things so they go down easily.
- Mercury Sextile Venus: With Mercury sextile Venus, two signs apart, your ideas and your tastes each keep their own tune yet get along. Put some care into combining them, and your words gain an extra layer of charm.
Venus and Mars
- Venus Conjunct Mars: With Venus and Mars traveling together, liking someone and wanting to get close happen almost at once. Your charm is direct and your feelings intense, and patience is not your strong suit.
- Venus Sextile Mars: With Venus and Mars two signs apart, what you like and what you want to do help each other. You are tactful with people without being passive, and the more you use this, the better you get.
- Venus Square Mars: With Venus and Mars at cross purposes, you want tenderness and still cannot help trying to come out on top. Love brings plenty of sparks and friction, and real passion gets forged in the process.
- Venus Trine Mars: With Venus and Mars in signs of the same element, liking and pursuing work together without effort. You are relaxed and attractive with people, and apt to treat smooth romance as nothing special.
- Venus Opposite Mars: With Venus and Mars facing each other across the zodiac, one end wants to be liked and the other wants to conquer. In partners you keep meeting the side of yourself you have not lived out.
Venus and Jupiter
- Venus Conjunct Jupiter: With Venus and Jupiter traveling together, you are generous with people and enthusiastic about life. Goodwill and good chances find you easily, and you often give too much or ask for too much without noticing.
- Venus Sextile Jupiter: With Venus and Jupiter two signs apart, you are pleasant with people and glad to share. As long as you are willing to get out and meet others, good connections and opportunities follow.
- Venus Square Jupiter: With Venus and Jupiter at cross purposes, your hopes for love and pleasure run high, and you easily overgive and overspend. Once you learn to tell when enough is enough, generosity becomes a blessing.
- Venus Trine Jupiter: With Venus and Jupiter in signs of the same element, you are kind to people and sunny in outlook. Good things drift toward you naturally, so it seldom occurs to you to try a little harder.
- Venus Opposite Jupiter: With Venus and Jupiter facing each other across the zodiac, your hopes for love are large, and you often see generosity or excess in a partner. The lesson is balance between giving and wanting.
Venus and Saturn
- Venus Conjunct Saturn: With Venus and Saturn side by side, you are careful, loyal, and commitment-minded in love, yet you often feel you are not quite good enough and need time to believe that being loved is real.
- Venus Sextile Saturn: With Venus and Saturn two signs apart, your affection comes with steadiness. You are willing to invest time in relationships and interests, and with care you can grow a spark into a bond people can count on.
- Venus Square Saturn: With Venus and Saturn at odds, you long for closeness and fear rejection. Love and self-worth are tested often, and once you have worked through it step by step, you love more solidly than anyone.
- Venus Trine Saturn: With Venus and Saturn in signs of the same element, you are faithful in love and patient with beauty. Relationships last and stay stable on their own, though so much security can leave little room for surprise.
- Venus Opposite Saturn: With Venus and Saturn facing each other across the zodiac, whenever you want closeness someone or something seems to stand in the way. You often meet coolness and demands in a partner, and need to learn to approve of yourself.
Venus and Uranus
- Venus Conjunct Uranus: With Venus and Uranus side by side, the way you fall for someone carries an electric charge. It comes fast and needs room, and neither your taste nor your love life follows the usual rules.
- Venus Sextile Uranus: With Venus and Uranus two signs apart, closeness and freedom get along. As long as you take the lead in arranging some change, both your relationships and your creativity stay lively.
- Venus Square Uranus: With Venus and Uranus at odds, you need air as soon as you get close and feel lonely as soon as you are free. Your love life has big swings, and it pushes you to find your own way of being with someone.
- Venus Trine Uranus: With Venus and Uranus in signs of the same element, closeness and freedom coexist naturally. Your taste and your way of loving are relaxed and unusual, though you tend to treat that as nothing special.
- Venus Opposite Uranus: With Venus and Uranus facing each other, one end wants company and the other wants independence. You often meet people who come close and then drift off, and see in them the side of yourself you have not claimed.
Venus and Neptune
- Venus Conjunct Neptune: With Venus and Neptune side by side, you love with a thick layer of imagination. You are gentle, romantic, and full of feeling for beauty, and you find it harder to see a person as they really are.
- Venus Sextile Neptune: With Venus and Neptune two signs apart, there is thoughtfulness and imagination in love for you to draw on. If you are willing to cultivate them, they become real skill in beauty and empathy.
- Venus Square Neptune: With Venus and Neptune at odds, there is often a gap between the ideal love in your heart and the person in front of you. You are easily disappointed, and it pushes you to learn to tell imagination from what is real.
- Venus Trine Neptune: With Venus and Neptune in signs of the same element, tenderness, imagination, and a feeling for beauty flow naturally. You are generous with people, and things go so smoothly that you can drift with the current.
- Venus Opposite Neptune: With Venus and Neptune facing each other, you often place a perfect image on a partner and swing between rescuing and being rescued. The homework is to take that ideal back.
Venus and Pluto
- Venus Conjunct Pluto: With Venus and Pluto side by side, when you like someone you want all of them. Your feelings are intense and focused, you have a strong pull on people, and you easily tie love and control together.
- Venus Sextile Pluto: With Venus and Pluto two signs apart, you are able to take a relationship deep and to see what things are truly worth. It is there to use as long as you are willing to invest yourself.
- Venus Square Pluto: With Venus and Pluto at odds, the more you care the more you fear losing. Love often brings jealousy, power struggles, and big swings, and it forces you to face your deepest insecurity.
- Venus Trine Pluto: With Venus and Pluto in signs of the same element, your feelings are deep and steady. You have a natural pull on people and an instinct for value, yet you tend to treat that influence as nothing special.
- Venus Opposite Pluto: With Venus and Pluto facing each other, you often meet people who are forceful, possessive, or impossible to get over, and in the back-and-forth you learn to take your own power back.
Other planets: Sun aspects, Moon aspects, Mercury aspects, Mars aspects, Jupiter aspects, Saturn aspects, Uranus aspects, Neptune aspects, Pluto aspects · Planet aspects overview
A straight word: read an aspect as part of the whole chart
A single aspect describes the relationship between two planets. A chart has well over a dozen aspects on average, and they reinforce and offset one another. The same aspect in different signs and houses, with a tight orb or a loose one, can look very different in real life. Planetary positions are astronomical facts and can be calculated precisely; what an aspect means is astrological tradition, not scientific law. Everything on this site is for reference and entertainment only; for health, investment or legal matters, please consult a professional.
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Venus aspects FAQ
Which Venus aspect is the best?
None of them is best. Trines and sextiles come easily; squares and oppositions bring pressure and also drive; a conjunction depends on which planet Venus is joined to. Start with the aspect that has the smallest orb, since that is Venus’s most noticeable interaction in your chart.
How do I find out which aspects my Venus has?
Cast a birth chart with your birth date, time and place. Our birth chart calculator lists the aspects from the tightest orb to the widest. Venus’s aspects can mostly be worked out from the birthday alone, except for its aspect to the Moon.
What does it mean if Venus has no aspects?
It means Venus forms none of the five major aspects with the other nine planets, which happens in about 4.8% of charts in our calculations. The traditional reading is that the planet works more on its own: what it stands for is less tied in with the rest of the chart, standing out strongly at some times and seeming disconnected at others.