posted March 02, 2013 11:57 AM
Venus in Pisces Universal Relationships and Values
The placement of Venus in Pisces indicates a need for universality in your relationships and your value system. However, this ideal of universality is a difficult concept to actualize and, in practice, it is often manifested as ambiguity or confusion. Thus, you often feel a need for flexibility and the removal of boundaries or definition in your relationships or with respect to values. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Pisces are a result of your need to return to a feeling of oneness or undifferentiatedness.
Venus’ placement in Pisces is generally conducive, although there are some inherent tensions present in the placement. This is symbolized by the natural sextile between Pisces and Venus-ruled Taurus, combined with the natural quincunx between Pisces and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Pisces is the Mutable Water sign. Pisces’ watery nature is compatible with the softness and passivity associated with Venus. The Venusian energy symbolically diffuses to the maximum extent through the Piscean medium of changeable water. If your character is sufficiently imbued with substance, it is the positive qualities associated with Venus that are allowed to envelope you and those around you. If there is nothing to support the Venusian energy, however, then it is diluted and loses itself in an ocean of chaos.
Venus also symbolizes the anima in the psyche. Thus, if you are female, you are likely to model your femininity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Pisces. If you are male, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Pisces-associated traits.
Qualities on Positive-Negative Continuum
Venus’s placement in Pisces suggests that there are certain personality characteristics and qualities with which you identify. Typical Venus-Pisces qualities are listed below, with positive qualities listed first and their more negative, or dysfunctional, counterparts listed afterward. These qualities are divided into three categories, corresponding to major Venus-symbolized functions: relationships, sense of judgment and values/sense of beauty.
Relationships: Caring and compassionate, emotionally sensitive, intuitive, based on spiritual principles, easily formed, non- attachment, giving nature, flexible - Vulnerable, emotionally needy, emotionally excessive, overly sensitive, deceptive, indiscriminate, manipulative,
unrealistic expectations, martyr
Sense of judgment: Intuitive, based on compassion, holistic, sensitive - Confused, blurred distinctions, prone to deception and self-deception, emotionally colored, vulnerable to manipulation
Values/Sense of beauty: Values rooted in love and compassion, sharing, reverence; Sense of interrelatedness and wholeness, fluidity, sees beauty of life, sentimental - Valueless, values adopted from whatever surroundings inhabited, opportunistic, no sense of truth; perverse sense of beauty, escapist
Transcendent Potential
When the transcendent potential of Venus in Pisces is achieved, universal love and compassion for all pervade your relationships and outlook. You have completely dissolved the ego and now you feel deeply at One with the Godhood within every creature. Your love radiates in waves and encompasses all.
Insecurity
If you are insecure, you try to bolster your ego and validate your selfhood through your relationships. Your ego feels as if it will be overwhelmed by the universal energy to which it is constantly being exposed. Desperately, you seek the approval and acceptance of others, to be included in their sphere of relationship and, thus, given some identity. Therefore, you give yourself indiscriminately in relationships of whatever depth or permanence. Making yourself so vulnera-
ble, you are often being hurt by others and constantly at risk of harm. To protect yourself from your own vulnerability, you may adopt a variety of negative defense mechanisms. Frightened
at losing all sense of self, you may become consumed with ensuring that your own needs are met within a relationship in order to assure yourself that your selfhood still exists.
Aspecting influence
When Venus in Pisces aspects other planets, the Piscean energy is often transmitted emotionally through relationships to affect the function symbolized by the aspected planet. Venus symbolically brings the universal and compassionate quality of your relationships to affect the planetary function being aspected. The qualities associated with Venus in Pisces may be helpful or problematic, depending on the particular aspect involved.
Aspected
When the Venus in Pisces is aspected by outer planets, your relationships and evaluation mode are affected, particularly with respect to issues of boundary and universality. Depending upon the aspecting planet and the aspect, the qualities expressed by Venus in Pisces may be affected positively or negatively.
Source: http://depthastrology2.com/VENSIGN.html#VenusPisces