Sailor Venus

dignity

domicile

Tauruscomfort and keepingLibrapartnership and graceIts own house, and Venus has two. Taurus is a feminine, fixed earth sign, and its quality is dry. Libra is a masculine, movable air sign, and its quality is cold. It begins at the autumn equinox. At home, a planet uses its own resources and doesn’t rely on a host.In Taurus, Venus’s pleasure, beauty and gain are physical and steady, and show up as comfort, food, fabrics, possessions and pleasures that last. In Libra they turn toward other people and fairness, and show up as partnership, social grace, agreements, design and the arts. Venus signifies friendship, marriage, music, adornment and reconciliation.

exaltation

Piscesdevotion and compassionRaised up in Pisces, a feminine, double-bodied water sign ruled by Jupiter. Its quality is wet. Exaltation is a place of honour, where a planet’s significations are raised in standing. An exalted planet is well thought of, but it can be overplayed. Pisces is in sextile to Taurus, one of Venus’s homes, and each night-team planet is exalted in a sign sextile to one of its homes. It pairs with Mercury’s exaltation in Virgo.Venus in Pisces mixes its love and pleasure with Jupiter’s generosity. It shows up as love without conditions, compassion, devotion, music and the imaginative arts, generosity that doesn’t check whether it’s deserved, and more feeling than a situation needs.

detriment

Ariesurgency and rivalryScorpiopossession and holding onOpposite its houses. Aries and Scorpio are Mars’s houses. Aries is a masculine, movable fire sign, and Scorpio a feminine, fixed water sign. Venus’s pleasure and desire sit opposite Mars’s fear and wrath, and Venus binds together what has been separated. Later texts treat a planet opposite its own house as hindered or in exile.Venus in Mars’s signs shows up as urgent or possessive desire, attraction to rivalry, and fights over partners, money or pleasure. In Aries it wants things right away and asks later. In Scorpio it holds on to what it wants.

fall

Virgoscrutiny and servicePut low in Virgo, a feminine, double-bodied earth sign ruled by Mercury. Fall is the sign opposite a planet’s exaltation, and there its significations lose standing. Virgo is Mercury’s exaltation, and in Rhetorius’ scheme the intellect is raised there and desire and pleasure are lowered.Venus in Virgo mixes its love and pleasure with Mercury’s analysis. It shows up as pleasure that gets examined and measured, high standards for partners and for beauty, affection shown through service and practical jobs like nursing, housekeeping and cooking, and relationships complicated by criticism or doubt.