Venus & The Significance of Your

Significant Other
Glenn Perry
 Objectives

• What Is This Thing Called Love?

– Who and Where Is the Beloved?
– Intimate Relationship As Sacred Path
• Leo and Romantic Love
– Narcissism, Adolescence, & Courtship
• Venus as Mature, Object Love
– Sign and House Positions
• Venus Aspects As Core Beliefs or Personal Myths
About Love
 More Objectives

• The 7th House & the Partner Within

– The Ascendant/Descendent Axis
• Oppositions As Key Relationship Themes
• Significators and Dispositors of Planets in
the 7th House
– Where Love Takes Us
• Sample Charts
Love Involves Whole Being
• It is An Integrative Act
• Joining Parts Together Into A Whole
– Wholeness is Balance
• Love As An Act of Will -- A Choice
• Teleological Process
– Love has A Final Goal, or Purpose
– Act of Self-Evolution toward Wholeness
• Intimate Relationship as Sacred Path
– Conscious Evolution
 Ways of Loving

• Aries Self-love, Love of life

• Taurus Love of Pleasure, Lust
• Gemini Love of Learning
• Cancer Maternal Love, Soft Love
• Leo Romantic Love, Philia
• Virgo Love of Service, Helpful
 Ways of Loving

• Libra Object Love, Beauty

• Scorpio Erotic Love, Passion
• Sagittarius Love of The True and the
Good, Philanthropy
• Capricorn Paternal Love, Tough
Love, Conditional Love
• Aquarius Platonic Love, Agape
• Pisces Divine Love, Sacrifice
Finding The Beloved In The Horoscope

• The Beloved Is One’s Higher Self

– The Atman that is Brahman
– The Microcosm that is Macrocosm
• All Horoscopal Factors Have Dual Meanings
– Subjective and Objective Correlates
– How We Love and Who We Love
• Inner and Outer Mirror One Another
– Who You Are With is Where You Are At
 Romantic Love

• Started in 12th Century

– antidote to devaluation of woman
• No Sex, No Marriage, No Relief
• Symbolizes Awakening of Individuality
– Libido over Credo
• Idealizing the Beloved (Narcissism)
• Ignites Fire to Fuel The Hero’s Journey
 Venus As Capacity

• Active Agent of Taurus Need For

– Self and Object Constancy (Security)
– Sensual Gratification and Pleasure
• Active Agent of Libra Need For
– Balance and Beauty
– Intimacy and Companionship
Six Necessary (but not sufficient)
Conditions for Love

• Capacity for Security

• Capacity for Pleasure
• Capacity for Patience
• Capacity for Engaging and Affection
• Capacity for Accepting Differences
• Capacity for Cooperation
 Venus as Activity

• Venus is a Verb; A Type of Action

• Taurus Motivation Produces
– To want, value, acquire, secure, attach
– to pleasur, comfort, soothe
• Libra Motivation Produces
– to beautify, balance, harmonize
– to connect, engage, cooperate, collaborate
 Sign Position of Venus

• Function = Ability to perform a specific type

of action
• Capacity = degree to which a system can
fulfill its function
• Sign Position of Venus
– How the person loves
– What the person loves
• Archetypal Relationship of Venus Sign
 Venus’ Theme Song

• How does person seek pleasure?

• What activities are enjoyable?
• How does person express love and
affection?
• What qualities are beautiful and attractive?
• What may be a relational issue?
 House Position of Venus
• Where we express love and where we tend to
look for and find love
– Beloved linked to archetypal characters of the
house it occupies
• Where do we seek and express
– pleasure, comfort, happiness, stability?
• Where do we seek and express
– beauty, balance, fairness, intimacy?
 Aspects of Venus

• Shows Ease or Disease of Venus

• What is Essential Relation of Planets?
• What is Accidental Relation of Planets?
• Prototypical Experiences of Childhood?
• What are Emergent Beliefs?
– Feelings, Attitudes, Traits, Behavior?
• Do Recurrent Events and Patterns with
Lovers Conform to Prototype?
 The 7th House
• Dissimilar But Fitted Behaviors
– Evoke Each Other
– Partner or Open Enemy
• What We Are Attracted to Becomes What We
Abhor
– Fodder for intimacy
– Must be made to serve the 7th
 Planets in 7th
• How We Connect and Relate
– Basic Attitude and Approach
– How We Meet the Challange of the 7th
• The Nature of the Partner
– What Attracts Us
– Primary Relationship Theme
• Content Mirrors Process
– What we Do is What we Get
– Equity (like it or not)
 The See Saw of Love
• Projection and Complementarity
– Imbalance and Compensation
– Escalation of Conflict
• Taking Back The Projection
– Shifting Roles and Reconsidering
– Negotiation and Compromise
• Balance and Integration
– using the quality to enhance the love
– sharing the quality equally
 Significators and Dispositors
• Where Does Love Lead To?
– Consequences and Complications
• Where The Promise of Love Seeks Fufillment
• The Aftermath of The Relationship
• Echoes of the Heart; the 7th House as
Background Motivation
 Opposition As Key Theme

• Complimentary Opposities
– Aspect of awareness and completion
• Partnerhip or Conflict
– How can planets coordinate & cooperate?
• May Lead to Vacillation and Indecision
– Extremes of behavior
• Partners Act Out the Conflict
– Relationship is vehicle for integration
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