Joanne Woodward

Chapter 5. Venus in Your Chart

Astrologically speaking, the planet Venus is the force of affinity. Venus represents a good part of what you attract, cherish, enjoy and are receptive to. Venus describes much of what makes your life worth living Joanne Woodward: love, civilized sex, seduction and creativity. Venus is also an indicator for many of the qualities you look for in a mate and your sense of femininity. More than a symbol of your values, Venus represents beauty, devotion to pleasure, appreciation of art and romantic longings. Venus rules such things as skin, hair & kidneys.

Femininity has many aspects. Women have a different kind of power when they are younger than when they are older. Both are pertinent to the personality of Venus astrologically.

This "goddess of beauty and lady of battle" was an historical personage known both as Ishtar and Indira. While Venus first and foremost loves her pleasures, she also knows that it is sometimes necessary to prepare to go to war to secure them. To gain deep rappport with Venus, study her ways in one of the glorious cities named in her honor such as Vienna and Venice. Starting in the next paragraph, some of your "Venusian" sensibilities are described Joanne Woodward.

Venus in Pisces

COMPASSIONATE AFFINITY

It may not be so much love as the ideal of love that matters to you. This can make you appear to be fickle and inconsistent. If your ideals and morals are high and your life is dreary and frustrating you probably need to break out of a savior, martyr, victim pattern.

You probably have a highly developed appreciation for music, art and poetry. It would be good for you to put more of your energy there. The power of art and music can not only soothe you, it can improve your relationship with money. You can make money by catering to people's need for romance.

Serenity and tenderness are keys that open doors to good romantic encounters. If you've been looking for love in all of the wrong places, try joining a psychic study group. To increase your powers of attraction, wear a variety of sandals, shoes and foot decorations. It's ok to indulge your most private fantasies. Just do it away from prying eyes.

Venus Square Jupiter

AFFINITY CHALLENGES ENCOURAGEMENT

If you're not enjoying yourself, perhaps you're allowing others to unduly influence you for the worse. Avoid folks who really don't care about you or your interests. No one is better than you. If they act that way, tell them it's unacceptable. Tell them that you demand respect and that they'll have to adjust.

Maintain your self respect. Forget about other people's expectations. Become more aware of your own needs. Be generous and do not allow others to take advantage of your generosity. Help others to step up and step out, and do not allow them to step on you. Allow other people to assume more care and responsibility for themselves.

In other words, you need to adjust your own needs to the expectations of other people. They count and so do you. Change your routine. If you're not happy with the romantic prospects on your horizons, change your social calendar so that you're moving in a bigger circle of friends.

You have magnetic personal powers working for you and lots of them. Be cheery and friendly and you can enchant and lure what you want to you. You can regulate your force of attraction through will power. People will respond to your honesty. Your creative and artistic expressions can bring you cash. Your socializing can lead to business. Your business can be other people's pleasure. You can gather others around you in the spirit of fun and love. If you run out of money, mail a letter soliciting donations. One way or another, you can cash in on your talent for dealing with the public.

As you are probably aware, to be happy you need to accept that your moods have cyclical aspects. Enjoy different activities at different times of your cycles. Learn when it's time to win new friends. Know when it's time to reorient your position and reach out to new people. A sense of humor can prove to be a one of your biggest assets. You can also learn to see sex in harmonious and positive lights. You can grasp how to make yourself higher an higher, and figure our how to bring yourself and your lover to the limits without going over the edge. Master some Taoist sexual practices for extending, increasing and improving orgasms.

TIP: Read The Tao of Love and Sex by Jolang Chang. It's the ancient Chinese way to ecstasy. ISBN 0-14-019338-3.

Venus Sextile Saturn

AFFINITY COOPERATES WITH DECISIONS

Does your value system sometimes put you in conflict with authorities and the law? You can take relationships seriously. When you get needy you get a grave quality that keeps folks away, even as you hold onto feelings for them. Sometimes, it may seem that you will be denied the love you seek.

Because the amount of affection you receive seems to have limits, relationships aren't always easy for you. You and your spouse may be married to your work and duties. You may struggle to create a warm personal place. With effort, over time, you can raise the limits on love. Marriage can be prevented or delayed and will tend to work better if you marry after you are 30 years old. You can enjoy some golden romantic years when you are 56 to 60 years old. Some but not all of your romantic feelings may be sacrificed or sublimated for duty, perhaps to the care of an elderly parent or relative. You may be psychologically bound to a parent and thus restrained from attracting romantic love.

Responsibility may only temporarily thwart your romance. With time and effort, a great love may be secured. You can find love with older, more mature individuals. If you learn your lessons, your love life will improve as you mature. You may marry one whose age is somewhat different than yours.

TIP: To be happy become a genuine optimist.

You can find happiness with the "right work". When duty fits your values, happiness will follow.

Venus Trine Pluto

AFFINITY COOPERATES WITH CLEANSING

You're artistically and sexually gifted. You can be intensely original. Your personal power, public prestige and private passion can be the most. You can develop a strong sense of color. You can learn to wield the power of love. You can have your deepest feelings matched. Focus on relationships that benefit you and your well being. Learn to evaluate people's motives. You can use the transforming power of love can create opportunities for irreversible changes for the better. In other words, you can be a force for social progress.

TIP: You can go from birth to billions.

You have an extraordinary ability to make money. A shrewd and secret future is somehow yours. You could be happy cultivating your extraordinary earning powers and your extreme force of attraction. Read "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason. It contains the laws of money and wealth and the practices necessary to create riches.

Probe your feelings. You will receive a revelation. It is time to attune yourself to the essences of love, romance and passion. You have a powerful and stealthy beauty. If you push the limit and do exactly what you want others will be attracted to you. Treat yourself to black garments and under garments.

Venus Sextile Chiron

AFFINITY COOPERATES WITH MENTORING

Connect with a group of like minded individuals. Join together with more social mavericks. For instance, you could find happiness in a writers or artists co-op, or a meditation or healing circle. Spend and earn more money in new age ways. For example a variety of seminars, creative works, individuation processes and mentoring sessions can all benefit you. The key to success in to do it in groups as opposed to going it alone.

Venus Semi-Square Ascendant

AFFINITY CHALLENGES YOUR REALITY

It is your personal challenge to develop natural charm and display your beauty. You can get what you want through the use of tact and diplomacy. People love your artistic sociable harmonious attitude.

Venus Trine Midheaven

AFFINITY COOPERATES WITH WHAT WILL BE

Put some work into learning manners, tact, and style. Study some fashion magazines. It will help to advance your career. Make an extra effort and you can use your creative talents professionally.