There is nothing discreet about this affection. Courtship involves flowers that are too large, a restaurant booked for an occasion that did not exist until it was booked, and a hand held where people can see it. The gestures are sincere; the theatre is the language, not a substitute for feeling. Such a person wants a partner they can be proud of in public, and takes real pleasure in praising them to others, which is generous and slightly performative at once.
In friendship the loyalty runs hot and the generosity is genuine, extending to money, time, and reputation. These people champion their friends in rooms where it costs them something. What they require in return is acknowledgement, and its absence is felt keenly; being taken for granted wounds this Venus more than an outright quarrel, and the injury is nursed in silence rather than voiced. Praise given here should be specific, since a compliment that could have been paid to anybody registers as no compliment at all.
Money goes on things that can be seen and enjoyed with company: good clothes, hospitality, gifts chosen with more enthusiasm than budget. The taste is for warmth, richness, and a certain confidence in colour, with no interest in understatement. Being wanted is enjoyed frankly, without the coyness other placements bring to it. The difficulty is the standing requirement for attention: when it thins, this Venus may create an occasion to restore it, and the manoeuvre is transparent to everyone except the person performing it.
What It Gives
- ◆wholehearted open affection
- ◆great generosity to friends
- ◆steady loyalty once committed
- ◆talent for celebration
What It Costs
- ◆needing constant admiration
- ◆pride after being slighted
- ◆extravagance beyond means
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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