posted July 28, 2011 01:20 AM            

Venus in Aspect to Jupiter: Epicureans, the High Life, and Popularity

When Venus forms a significant aspect to Jupiter in the birth chart, the pleasure principle is highly operative in one’s life. Webster’s Dictionary defines “epicurean” as “ fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence in sensual pleasures.” Certainly, bearers of Jupiter-Venus aspects are epicureans and lovers of the high life. Possessors of Jupiter-Venus aspects can teach the rest of us in the fine art of entertaining and style, but they may need to learn how to control excessive indulgence in what they find pleasurable. There is also an inclination of Jupiter-Venus carriers to be driven towards popularity, likeability, and to be part of the in-crowd. The innate charm and friendliness of these individuals often make them well-liked, if not admired.

Venus in Aspect to Saturn: Refinement and the Down Side of love

If Jupiter-Venus aspects symbolize a surplus of desire, pleasure, and relational needs, Saturn-Venus contacts often correlate with the polar opposite—a retrenchment or withdrawal from the pleasure principle. Saturn-Venus contacts don’t necessarily translate into a lack of love, friendship, or pleasure, but there is often a cautionary stance or prudence toward relationships and materialism. The Saturn-Venus aspect can often give the carrier a hard won civility, grace, and poise that other aspects don’t display. Thus, the critical nature of Saturn can actually be used to help hone and refine one’s personal aesthetics and tastes. If, however, the Jupiter-Venus aspect can be guilty of excessive opulence and overindulgence, the Saturn-Venus combination can be accused of wallowing in the melancholic aspects of relationships and fixating on the more dour and gloomy aspects of intimacy.

Venus in Aspect to Uranus: Trendsetters and Chameleons

Venus-Saturn bearers are classicists and traditionalists; they create and define the establishment in terms of style and proper decorum, critiquing that which fails to live up to their standards. In reaction to this, Uranus-Venus birth charts bring in much needed experimentation, boldness, daring, and youthful creativity to style, tastes, and romance. Leave it to these individuals to be the avant garde in popular trends in fashion, entertainment, and etiquette. The experimentalism and creativity that these individuals are predisposed toward can lead to major flops and faux pas on the one hand, or stunningly novel statements that create all the rage in fashion, the arts, and entertainment. It is the nature of Uranus-Venus individuals to be horribly confined and bored with the status quo and in need of radical makeovers and rebellions from time to time.

Venus in Aspect to Neptune: Glamour and the Romantic Ideal

With Venus in aspect to Neptune, the lower and higher octaves of love connect. Venus and Neptune are the pairing that are often most affiliated with the image of beauty: glamour, cosmetics, and fashion photography. With Venus-Neptune aspects searching for the ideal—or becoming idealized—can be a large psychological priority. Although the notion that Venus-Neptune aspects lead one to becoming an arch romantic, there is also a decadent and indulgent quality to the aspect. The pleasure principle of a Venus-Neptune aspect can become extremely captivating and enchanting, compelling one to loose one’s sense of discernment and judgment. Among the caveats of the Neptune-Venus aspect are penchant for losing one’s self in relationship—to be intoxicated by the state of love. With Neptune in aspect to Venus, love holds the extremely addictive and alluring capacity of being able to reunite with lost aspects of self.

Venus in Aspect to Pluto: Demon Lovers and Deep Relationship

When in aspect to Pluto, Venus's desire nature and relational style is typically rendered intense, deep, and potentially possessive and controlling. Arguably the most passionate and subterranean of the relational styles associated with Venus, this pairing can create heat as well as jealousy and self-destructiveness. In order to understand the pairing better, we turn to individuals born with the pairing to understand the style of this intense planetary combination.

posted August 22, 2011 10:48 PM            

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Capricorn sun
Scorpio AC
Leo MC
Aquarius Stellium 4H

posted August 25, 2011 04:52 AM            

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Originally posted by Lonake:
Conjunct, sextile, square, trine, opposed are the major aspects. Inconjuncts work as well. http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_aspect_e.htm

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Aahh, thank you.

I was asking because I read somewhere that the Conjunct and Opposition are the strongest, but the Trine, Square, and Sextile are considered also, but have less weight. So, I was curious as to whether you were including all 5 or just the first two strongest.

posted August 26, 2011 10:53 PM            

so that makes me a refined, epicurean chameleon, glam, demon lover??