What is my Venus sign?

Venus is value — what you find pleasant and what you consider worth having. Closeness and taste both live here, which is why it gets called the love planet and why that name is a little too small for it.

Not who you fall for. What you do once you have. Venus describes the currency: whether closeness feels like being understood, being chosen, being fed, being left alone in the same room, or being argued with well.

It is also the reason two people can both be sincerely trying and still feel unloved. They are paying in different currencies.

Venus never gets further than 48 degrees from the Sun, so it lands in your Sun sign or one of the two either side of it — never opposite. That narrow leash is why Venus is often *nearly* your Sun sign but not quite, and why the difference is worth knowing.

It takes about a year to go round, and it turns retrograde for about six weeks every eighteen months, which is why some people have a Venus that sits back in an earlier sign than the date would suggest. Gori calculates the real position, retrograde and all.

The pair worth looking at is Venus with the Moon. The Moon is what settles you; Venus is what you reach for. When they agree, what you want is what soothes you. When they disagree — a square, an opposition — you can want something that does not calm you down, and that pattern shows up in relationships more reliably than any single sign does.