Martha Stewart

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 Martha Stewart: 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 Martha Stewart.

Venus in Virgo

HELPFUL AFFINITY

Practical considerations matter to you. You're more cautious and not attracted to love the way that other people are.

You're searching for perfect love. You appreciate good hygiene. You can be so clinical and analytical that you may enjoy playing games of doctor and nurse. When you want a sultry date, try a bathing ritual.

TIP: Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.

When no one is looking, strange things happen. You can reverse polarity and become slovenly, disorganized and anal.

Worry less about the rain forest and do more to cultivate your garden. Pay more attention to your heart. Become more decisive and favorably inclined toward love. Make a desert from scratch. To curry favor in love, make a home cooked meal offering yourself as several of the courses.

You have a sense of moral purity and can give some energy to the underdog. You may find it easier to give your love to a cause or a pet than to a person. In fact, you may lavish your affection on details, pets, small animals and your garden.

Venus Biquintile Mars

AFFINITY BRINGS OUT TALENT OF MOTIVATIONS

To be happy, follow your passion. It may prove helpful to learn new social skills. Find more personal inputs and outlets. Make safe places to assert your charm and share your warmth. Give lively expression to your emotions. Create and live in your own brand new kind of romance novel. To the degree that your love life isn't working, you're probably working against yourself. Try a new approach to self love and self confidence. To act decisively, you must first resolve inner conflicts. Start by breaking free from love hate relationships. Then consciously become more tactful and sensuous.

Short term sexual self discipline can bring long term benefits. Find the right balance between duty and sex, between love and love making.

You do what you love and you're spirited. The sparkle in your eyes is proof that you've been exercising your passion. Yours is a vigorous grace, and a strong beauty. You're at your best when you combine force and charm. You can connect new links between you and what you want by connecting a go get 'em attitude with an attract 'em to you sense of style.

You can be forcefully eloquent and powerfully persuasive. You can be a romantic trend setter. You can forge a new aesthetic with an arty, scientific approach to love and sex. You can bring gals and guys together for passion and romance. Try your skills at matchmaking.

Venus Bi-Septile Saturn

AFFINITY NON-CONFORMS 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 Decile Pluto

AFFINITY BRINGS OUT TALENT OF 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 to 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.

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 new black garments and under garments.

Venus Decile Chiron

AFFINITY BRINGS OUT TALENT OF 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.