Venus Sextile Pluto: Love with Depth and a Sense of Measure

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. This page starts from what Venus governs (love, taste, values and money) and what Pluto governs (deep power, crisis and rebirth), then looks at how the sextile makes the two interact, how it tends to show up in everyday life, its strengths and blind spots, and some advice for it.

Venus Sextile Pluto at a glance

Percentages are our own calculation from 8,401 charts of people born in Taipei between 1960 and 2005 with random birth times, using the same orbs as our chart calculator.

The core meaning of Venus Sextile Pluto

Venus is how you like people and what you value. Pluto is depth and the power of thorough change. The sextile has them backing each other up in compatible signs, so your feelings can go deep without swallowing you. You like sincere relationships and have little interest in surface pleasantries, and with someone you click with you get to what is really on your mind quickly. You also know how to hold back, and can tell when to move closer and when to let the other person handle things alone.

Compared with the all-or-nothing intensity of the conjunction, the strength of the sextile is adjustable. You have the capacity for depth, and whether to use it is your decision. It does not run automatically the way a trine does, either. You have to switch it on. When you choose to put a little more into a relationship, ask one more honest question, or dig further into something you love, this aspect pays you back. If you only skim past, it just sits there quietly.

How it feels inside

You see your own feelings fairly clearly. Whom you like, why you like them, and how much it weighs: you can mostly put it into words. When you meet with loss, you grieve, yet you manage to sort some sense out of it and come away knowing yourself better than before. You have a steady sense of your own worth that does not swing much with other people’s warmth or coolness. You also have the resilience to start over. When a relationship or a chapter ends, you can pull yourself together and set out again.

In love and relationships

In love and friendship you are someone people can open up to. Friends tell you what they would not dare tell others, because you do not overreact and you do not repeat it. With a partner, you are able to bring the problems between you out to discuss, and to go deep without wounding. Your appeal is on the understated side, and it takes some time together to feel it. If you are willing to be a bit more forward and let the other person see that you truly care, the relationship will be far deeper than if you just let things take their course.

At work and in getting things done

At work you are good at seeing how resources should be used. How to allocate a budget, which client is worth cultivating for years, how to fix up an old item so it becomes valuable again: your judgment on these is sound. Financial planning, purchasing, rebranding, the antiques and secondhand market, and coaching or counseling are all directions with room for you. You are comfortable around influential people and can build ties that benefit both sides. Go after assignments that call for deep research or long cultivation, and you will do them better than others.

Strengths

• Able to go deep: You can talk with people about what truly matters to them and still respect their boundaries, so your relationships have substance and nobody feels crowded.
• Good at bouncing back: After a setback in love or money, you digest it and get back up, and you turn the experience into the basis for your next judgment.
• Making the most of resources: You can see how to get the best out of the contacts, money, and things you have on hand, and know how to bring new value out of the old.

Blind spots

• Depth left unused: You have the ability to build deep relationships, but when you do not take the lead, love and friendship stop at pretty good and go no further.
• Holding too much back: You like to observe before declaring yourself and keep your true thoughts inside, so it may take ages for someone to learn where they stand with you.
• Calculating too finely: Seeing the stakes is a strength, though now and then it has you weighing things too long before giving, and you lose the plain directness of being kind.

Advice for Venus Sextile Pluto

Choose one relationship you value and take it a step deeper on your own initiative. You might ask your partner a question you would not normally ask, or tell an old friend something you have never told anyone. With money, spend an afternoon taking stock of what you own and see what could be tidied up, sold on, or put to new use. The power of this aspect is hidden in being willing to do a little more. Each time you use it, it grows a little.

What to keep in mind when reading this aspect

1. The tighter the orb, the more it matters. In our calculations, only 13.6% of all major aspects are within 1° of exact, and 41.2% are within 3°. If your Venus sextile Pluto is tight, the traits on this page will be more noticeable; if it is close to the 5° limit, they will be much fainter.

2. Applying and separating. An aspect is applying when the two planets are moving toward the exact angle and separating once they have passed it. Tradition holds that an applying aspect is still taking shape and acts more strongly. Our chart calculator marks which one you have.

3. Watch for out-of-sign aspects. Two planets in sextile are usually two signs apart, in compatible elements (fire with air, earth with water), but an aspect is measured by actual distance. In our calculations, 9.5% of sextiles do not match the usual sign relationship (one planet late in a sign, the other early in another). The nature of the aspect is still there; it just shows up in a less typical way.

4. Most people born on the same day share this aspect. Venus and Pluto move only a little in a day. The difference lies in which houses they fall in on your chart, and that depends on your birth time; see Planets in the Houses.

5. Then look at each planet’s own placement. The signs Venus and Pluto are in decide how each one expresses itself; see Planets in the Signs. If either planet has other aspects, read them together. For a complete reading, use the In-Depth Chart Reading.

Other aspects between Venus and Pluto

Conjunction · Sextile · Square · Trine · Opposition

The sextile with other planets

Venus: Moon sextile Venus, Mercury sextile Venus, Venus sextile Mars, Venus sextile Jupiter, Venus sextile Saturn, Venus sextile Uranus, Venus sextile Neptune.

Pluto: Sun sextile Pluto, Moon sextile Pluto, Mercury sextile Pluto, Mars sextile Pluto, Jupiter sextile Pluto, Saturn sextile Pluto, Uranus sextile Pluto, Neptune sextile Pluto.

All Venus aspects · All Pluto aspects · Planet aspects overview