Venus in Libra

Venus keeps a second house in this sign, and it shows in the ease of the manner. Such a person makes a room pleasanter within ten minutes of entering it, remembers who has not been introduced, and steers a conversation away from the topic that would spoil the evening. The courtesy is genuine rather than strategic. It is also nearly automatic, which means it is offered equally to people who have earned it and people who have not.

Courtship is conducted properly, with attention to the details of an occasion: the table booked, the invitation phrased well, the small consideration nobody asked for. Partnership itself is the thing wanted, not merely a partner, and being single is felt as an unfinished condition rather than a freedom. In the relationship the reflex is accommodation. Preferences are surrendered early and cheerfully, and the surrenders accumulate quietly until the resentment surfaces years later, all at once, to a partner who had no idea anything was wrong.

The taste is the clearest in the zodiac: balance, proportion, good materials handled lightly, nothing shouting. Money goes on the house, on clothes chosen with care, and on the arts. Being wanted is enjoyed and handled skilfully, sometimes too skilfully; the flirtation continues long after it has stopped meaning anything, because pleasing people is a habit rather than a decision. The honest difficulty here is conflict avoidance, which preserves a great many arrangements past the point where a plain argument would have saved them.