Venus Sextile Uranus: A Knack for Keeping Love Fresh

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. This page starts from what Venus governs (love, taste, values and money) and what Uranus governs (breakthrough, change and independence), 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 Uranus 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 Uranus

Venus wants closeness, comfort, and lovely things. Uranus wants freedom and change. The sextile puts these two needs in signs that are compatible, so you like having company and you like having time to yourself, and the two rarely clash. You are curious about novel people and things and willing to try a restaurant you have never eaten at, a band you have never heard, or friends from outside your usual circle, without dropping the relationships you already have for the sake of something new.

Compared with the conjunction, the current in the sextile is much milder, and you are not led around by sudden attractions. Compared with the trine, it asks a bit more of your own effort. What this aspect gives is an ability you can cultivate, namely adding change to stability. If you leave it unused, your love life and your taste will follow habit, smooth and even but without much sparkle. It becomes a signature of yours only when you arrange for it deliberately.

How it feels inside

Inside, you stay open to new things. When you see a style you have not come across before, your first reaction is usually curiosity, and you seldom reject it outright. You are not much afraid of your preferences changing either. If something you loved a few years ago no longer appeals, that seems perfectly normal to you. This keeps your mood light and makes it hard to get stuck in the idea that “this is just the kind of person I am.” The flexibility is quiet most of the time, though, and when life gets busy you can go months living exactly the same way without noticing.

In love and relationships

In love and friendship you are easy to be around. You do not interfere much with the other person’s schedule, and you can accept a partner having interests and friends of their own. Your circle is wide. You can talk with people of different ages and in different lines of work, and many opportunities come from these seemingly unrelated friends. Once you have been together a while, if you are willing to suggest a spur-of-the-moment getaway or a new way to spend an anniversary, the relationship will always have something fresh to talk about.

At work and in getting things done

At work you take to new tools and methods quickly, and you are often the first on the team to try new software and then teach everyone else. Your aesthetic has a clever touch. When you build a presentation, arrange a space, or plan an event, you know how to bring in something new without startling people. For income, keep an eye on openings that come through your network and through emerging fields, such as a collaboration a friend introduces or a market that is just getting started. These often suit you better than the step-by-step path.

Strengths

• Open-minded: Faced with an unfamiliar style or way of life, you get curious before you judge, so you find good things a step ahead of others and make friends in many circles.
• Easy company: You know how to give people room and are not afraid of being alone. Partners and friends do not have to report in constantly, which takes a lot of pressure off.
• Just enough flair: Your creativity avoids extremes. You add a twist to what people are used to, so your work or pitch feels fresh and is still easy to accept.

Blind spots

• Still unless pushed: This gift for novelty needs you to bring it out. Once life settles down, you may go a long while without arranging any change for yourself.
• Stopping at a taste: You have broad interests and many friends but do not always go deep, and sometimes miss out on something that a little more time would have turned into real results.
• Love on the cool side: You judge distance so well that the other person sometimes cannot feel your warmth, and wishes you would show a bit more that you care.

Advice for Venus Sextile Uranus

Every so often, change one thing in your life on purpose. It could be going somewhere neither you nor your partner has been, signing up for a class that has nothing to do with work, or asking a friend from a different circle you have not seen in ages to dinner. These small changes take little effort, yet they are exactly how this aspect does its work. After a few rounds, you will know better and better how to keep a relationship fresh.

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 Uranus 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 Uranus 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 Uranus 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 Uranus

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 Neptune, Venus sextile Pluto.

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

All Venus aspects · All Uranus aspects · Planet aspects overview