Planets in signs and houses
Venus in Virgo
Tropical zodiac, Western astrology
You show love through small, attentive acts such as helping with work, looking after health or handling what your partner needs. You prefer relationships that are polite, honest and understated, and your joy is seeing shared life improve steadily. The challenge is faultfinding and standards that are too high, for your partner and yourself. Appreciate what already exists and let imperfection be part of love's charm.
Venus in a birth chart
Venus is the planet of attraction and value. It describes what and whom you love, how you give and receive affection, what you find beautiful and what you consider worth having. It also shows how you create harmony and how you handle pleasure and money in a gentle, non-technical sense.
Virgo at a glance
- Element
- Earth
- Modality
- Mutable
Virgo is mutable earth, and Mercury rules it, which gives this Sun an analytical, practical mind in service of making things work. You notice details others pass over: a loose thread, a flaw in a plan, the small fix that changes everything. You tend to feel at ease when you are useful and when your surroundings are in order. Under a modest manner sits a sharp, steady intelligence that is always refining.
Find this in your own chart
"Positions": each point with its degree, sign and house. A red R in the R column marks retrograde. The angles, including Descendant and IC, are listed too.