Venus Conjunct Jupiter: Wanting a Little More of Everything You Love

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. This page starts from what Venus governs (love, taste, values and money) and what Jupiter governs (growth, opportunity and belief), then looks at how the conjunction makes the two interact, how it tends to show up in everyday life, its strengths and blind spots, and some advice for it.

Venus Conjunct Jupiter 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 Conjunct Jupiter

Venus governs what you like, how you treat people well, and how you enjoy yourself. Jupiter governs expansion, optimism, and faith in the future. With the two together, your appetite for good things is large. You want a bit more of what you like, and when you are kind you do not keep count. You believe that goodwill mostly prevails between people, and that belief often does bring a friendly response. A friend’s help, a mentor’s backing, a favor passed along: these turn up in your life more often than in other people’s.

People with the conjunction mostly do not think of themselves as especially lucky, because since childhood they have been used to being liked and to things having some give. The difficulty is hidden in the same place. Jupiter does not know how to brake and Venus loves comfort, so together they push spending, eating and drinking, and promises past what you intended. This aspect brings a sense of plenty. Whether the plenty stays depends on whether something like Saturn elsewhere in the chart helps to rein it in.

How it feels inside

The base color of your mood is bright. After a setback you are down for a while, and then you mostly feel there will be a way. You like to treat yourself well. A generous meal, a trip, a good-looking piece of clothing can restore your spirits quickly. You do not hold grudges much either, since keeping score seems too tiring. The thing to watch is that this optimism sometimes lets you skip over a discomfort that needs facing. You soothe yourself with pleasure, and the problem gets set to one side.

In love and relationships

In love you are generous and romantic. When you like someone, you want to take them out for good food and good sights, your gifts are lavish, and compliments come easily. You expect a lot from a partner and believe love should make both your worlds bigger, so you are often drawn to people who are well-traveled, sunny, or from a different background. Be careful about promising too fast. When something you agreed to in the heat of the moment falls through, the other person’s disappointment runs deeper than you think. With friends, you have always been well liked.

At work and in getting things done

At work your popularity is a solid asset. Clients like dealing with you, managers are willing to give you chances, and colleagues think of you when something good comes along. Fields tied to beauty, hospitality, education, travel, and culture all let your warmth work for you. Money flows in and flows out just as readily. You are not very alert to figures, and your budgets tend to be optimistic. Find a careful partner to keep watch, or routinely set aside part of your income and leave it untouched, and you will rest much easier.

Strengths

• Well liked and well helped: You treat people generously and they are glad to help you. Someone is often reaching out a hand, and most of your chances come through good relationships.
• Generous and optimistic: You are free with sharing and praise and confident about the future. People around you tend to feel that life is not quite so hard.
• Knowing how to enjoy: You have a fine feel for good food, art, and travel, and you know how to make life pleasant for yourself and for the people near you.

Blind spots

• Prone to excess: Spending, eating, and fun know little restraint. A bit more never seems to hurt, and it adds up to more than you can actually afford.
• Overpromising: In a good mood you say yes to everything, then find you lack the time and energy, and people who trusted you are let down.
• Little patience for hardship: You are used to help arriving and a path opening up. In a stretch that calls for long endurance, you are more inclined to look for an easy exit.

Advice for Venus Conjunct Jupiter

Put a ceiling on your generosity. Each month, move your fixed savings out first. What is left is what you may spend freely, and treating friends and buying gifts count toward it. Before saying yes to anyone, get in the habit of saying, “Let me check my schedule and get back to you.” These small pauses will not cost you any goodwill. They only make what you give more dependable.

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 conjunct Jupiter is tight, the traits on this page will be more noticeable; if it is close to the 8° 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 conjunction are usually in the same sign, but an aspect is measured by actual distance. In our calculations, 15.6% of conjunctions 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 Jupiter 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 Jupiter 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 Jupiter

Conjunction · Sextile · Square · Trine · Opposition

The conjunction with other planets

Venus: Sun conjunct Venus, Moon conjunct Venus, Mercury conjunct Venus, Venus conjunct Mars, Venus conjunct Saturn, Venus conjunct Uranus, Venus conjunct Neptune, Venus conjunct Pluto.

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

All Venus aspects · All Jupiter aspects · Planet aspects overview