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When Venus travels through Aries from February 3rd to March 27th, our hearts are in it to win it. Whether you’re putting your cards on the table with a crush, bringing a competitive edge to your flirt-a-thons, exploring a new art form that quickens your pulse, or communicating your desires more frankly than ever, relish the adrenaline rush.
The planet of love and beauty is anything but demure in this Mars-ruled fire sign. Think: the feeling we get when something is so adorable we want to gobble it up (metaphorically, of course). But this kind of assertiveness doesn’t always come naturally to a planet concerned with grace and diplomacy. Venus is traditionally considered to be in detriment in Aries, meaning it struggles to access its usual tact in this placement. Just remember that a little friction or frustration is par for the course during this transit. Then again, busting romantic clichés and playing against stale aesthetic conventions is half the fun. Matters of the heart demand bravery, after all, and the coming weeks double-dare us to zero in on our passions — relentlessly.
But not so fast. Venus in Aries may be raring to wear a head-turning outfit or gate-crash the local art scene, but a slowdown is on the horizon. On March 1st, Venus stations retrograde in the sign of the ram, foreshadowing a horn-lock or two. During a Venus retrograde, which happens once every 18 months, our pleasure centers can go offline. The planet of love appears to turn backward in the sky and slips into the underworld for 40 days and 40 nights. So if an important relationship loses its luster, if your creative spark seems dimmer than usual, or if everything in your wardrobe suddenly ceases to conjure delight, know that this is all normal — and temporary.
Venus’ retrograde through Aries may be uncomfortable, but it’s an invitation to rediscover your personal convictions and pierce through the stories and patterns that have undermined your agency. At the same time, this period is a potent opportunity to reconnect with your inner warrior. Though this subterranean journey may not be straightforward, Venus’ retrograde in Aries will help us all delve into our deepest caves and tap into the resources that will energize us to love boldly, connect courageously, and keep fighting together for the world we want to live in.
After poring over the complexity of the ties that bind us, Venus dons its most comfy dungarees, and hits the spacious vistas of open roads. Less concerned with the alchemical (and sometimes harrowing) ways love breaks us down in Scorpio, Venus in Sagittarius wants to gather the myths, pop songs, and cosmologies that explain the endless expansion of the heart.
Within the headiness of Libra season, we are called to examine the stories we tell ourselves about everything we deeply value. We also have the opportunity to pinpoint the ways these narratives could be revised to welcome greater abundance.
We may break a few hearts along the way, as Venus in Sagittarius won’t tarry in any place too long, preferring to test their theories on lovers and kindred spirits in many ports. The Unbearable Low-Keyness of Venus in Sag may threaten some of our more possessive impulses in love, but there are fruitful lessons here in non-attachment, if we can take philosophical distance (and laugh at our blunders).
Armed with its dog-eared Choose Your Own Adventure paperback, Venus may be forced to settle on the next escapade with a little more discernment on October 13th, when Venus sextiles Saturn. Every adventure requires a visit from the wise old sage (or scientist), and Saturn provides helpful counsel, helping to define and conceptualize our Venusian desires.
October 26th may see our ardent seeker indulging in more transcendent connections, or pleasures, with the square to Neptune in Pisces. An insatiable hunger to bliss out, however, may see Venus waking up in another district of town — last night’s sequins and sliding face-paint more Picasso than Coachella.
Once the hangover subsides, Venus in Sagittarius cannot help but end its travels on a hopeful note (what, another silver lining?), as a sextile to Jupiter on October 28th reaffirms that love was never a finite resource, and every Motown song ever written is true.
Your horoscopes are meant to be read as inspiration. If you know both your rising sign and sun sign, please read both horoscopes. Take what works for you, and leave the rest. If you want to share this work, please credit the source by quoting it and providing a link to this post and website. Thank you for your support and for spreading our work around. We really appreciate it and you.
The following horoscopes were written by Stephanie Warner.
Venus in Sagittarius’ spirit of adventure will open sublime panoramas of the mind, as you are lured down an esoteric rabbit hole (or two, or three). There will be a sweetening of your learning pursuits, and cute encounters between the stacks — but also an opportunity to be seduced by the pursuit of wisdom itself.
As you wax philosophical about love, connection, and the quantum entanglement of souls, you may brush against the edge of something a little more tender.
This is part of a longer unfolding in your willingness to air your raw and authentic self in relationships. Perhaps a wisdom tradition offers a generous new slant on the contractions of your rebirthing. Your wounds themselves become portals into deeper revelation.
During this intellectual buccaneering, it may be important to mark the trees along the way, so you can find your way back to familiar pastures. Your studies may plunge you, after all, into mind-bending mysteries that tease beyond the veil, as you bathe in quirks and quarks, and trip on the bliss of enlightenment.
Just make sure you keep your research questions sturdy, your argument watertight — when in doubt, sleep on it.
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There’s a free-wheeling lightness to Venus in Sagittarius that may not always jive with your desire for more tactile and rooted connection. Nevertheless, the coming weeks offer an opportunity to use this sprightliness to make bounding strides in a healing journey.
Now is the time to take a multi-pronged approach to the dislodging of ghosts of sorrows past. Shooting the arrows of many therapies into the sky, you may be surprised at what seemingly off-the-wall method lands.
A stream of abundance is also coming through in bank loans, credit lines, and lending agencies. If you’ve been dreaming of an expansive new career, or life direction, but haven’t had the means to fund this, now may be the time to explore your options in terms of the universes’ starry coffers.
If you can get crystal clear about your vocational vision, and the first steps, you may find yourself delighted by your ease in lassoing monetary support.
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As you continue to meditate on the meaning of life in your monk’s cave, you may find yourself yearning for the comforts of society again.
It’s been lonely wrangling citations and building worlds out of thin air in your sci-fi opus. Now you crave the learning that percolates in conversation, as your theories are tested against the experiential reality of another. Though waxing philosophical sounds lofty, there’s sure to be a flirtier subtext too.
The open questions trailing from your closest relationships may spill over into your career, and vocational pursuits. This is part of a much longer surrender to the wild wending of your life’s direction. The path ahead has not always been clear: the fog horns blare and you prepare yourself for another spell of disillusionment about your ‘dream’ career.
An offhand remark from your bestie, or first date, may have you questioning your place in the world. Some of this feedback may be useful in defining who you want to be when you grow up, but it’s important to remember that these outside perspectives are not rooted in your lived reality.
Your life path may seem bewildering to those with a lower threshold for mystery, but there is magic in not knowing where you’ll be in five years. Trust the synchronicity that brought you here.
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Venus in Sagittarius has a way of bringing cheerful spontaneity to your work rhythms and rituals of self care. You slip bird of paradise blooms into a vase on your desk and find breaks to forest-bathe, or just bask in the sun.
You know things could flow more smoothly in your daily work routines, and you throw the kitchen sink at it now, cycling through different operating systems, time-hacks, training modules, and tools of the trade with a gusto that amazes all.
This time also sweetens relationships with your colleagues, as something about the coziness of your workplace brings out your goofier side. You may even be entertaining thoughts of a junket that will allow you to rub elbows with people from all over the world.
The mysteries of a healing journey continue to haunt in idle moments, and no amount of hustle will defer this deeply necessary (though not always comfortable) process.
Nevertheless, you may find sweet support now in the balm of a hard day’s work. There’s comfort in being of use, and spiritual satisfaction in a job well done; this honing of your more practical skills may spill over into the elbow grease you’re willing to put into your emotional world. Your mental health journey, like your work day, can be parceled into manageable steps.
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The season of foliage change sees a new swagger as you prowl the pumpkin patch — or window box of petunias. Wide vistas and frontiers of pleasure open in your life now, and your main issue is finding ways to flit between every gallery opening, Zoom dance party, tango class, and spooky soiree. What a lovely problem to have.
If you’re of the Halloween inclination, you will delight in putting a costume together, last minute, that still manages to win best dressed. Oh this old thing?
These worldly delights inform a longer unfolding in the abundance you seek in your closest relationships now, and your need to define exactly what this looks like (and doesn’t). Perhaps the wild and raucous side of yourself, which comes out during charades, could be brought to your more intimate entanglements too.
What if you and your bestie, or paramour, blew this popsicle stand? You may find that a pleasure-trip or a staycation allows you and a significant other to deepen your bonds, affirm your commitment to mutual growth, and crystallize exactly what is needed for the relationship to thrive — in lean times, as well as lush.
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The season of swaying scales sweetens matters at home. You crave cozy nights in with your chosen family, to pontificate about life, the universe and everything in-between over cups of hibiscus tea. The artistry of ancestral traditions, and talismans, seduce you in the coming weeks and bring deep comfort.
As the belly laughs flow at home and hearth, the comfiness of it all may trigger an uncertainty you’ve felt around partnership. Perhaps a yearning to enmesh your paramours with the sturdiness of your home life surfaces now. This is part of a much longer unfolding, as certain relationships shape-shift and your head spins trying to find new vessels to contain them.
Sharing your life with another may require surrender to uncertainty for now. However, this also buys you time to get clear about what you need for your relationships to be mutually beneficial, rather than a drain. Make sure that garlic is all but spilling from your pockets as Halloween approaches, as energy vamps will be on the prowl.
As you weave elaborate stories around an elusive entanglement, what if you redirected that imaginative power to envision exactly the friend or lover you need to be to yourself in order to keep the home fires of your heart burning?
Venus in Sagittarius tends to dial up your xoxoxo’s, and heart eye emojis, as you spread wildfires of delight through your communicative channels. You also have a way of delivering a compliment that has the ring of truth and makes its recipient feel witnessed in the wider context of the world — even the cosmos.
You gas people up, yes, but it comes from a place that’s genuine and laser-focused on their flourishing. Trust this gift.
Conversely, you may bristle now at any dulcet tones that feel disingenuous or betray a thinly veiled agenda (especially in the workplace). Flirting is something of a philosophy for you — a way of exploring the freedom of your social ties and expanding beyond the bounds of polite society.
We all delight in being seduced by a universal truth through the artful rhythms of oration. The question is where to apply your considerable gift of the gab: which walls do you want to coax down with your talent for spinning a mesmerizing tale?
This all may plug into a longer process of crystallizing your visions of pleasure, Eros, and the good life. Perhaps it’s you who needs to be persuaded to demarcate more time for worldly delights? When was the last time you turned your famous pampering on yourself?
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As the season pivots around you, your thoughts naturally drift to your resources, your balance book, and your checking account. Abundance may be streaming in from multiple sources, and it’s up to you to cast your net wide enough to catch what’s falling from bending branches.
These riches may be more deeply felt, too: it’s easy for you to take a philosophical distance when it comes to your self-worth, but something reminds you to nourish those parts of yourself too.
This might be feeding into a longer journey you’ve been on around consolidating your roots, and defining who belongs in your most private bunker. It will be obvious now the people who make you feel warm and safe, or the ones for whom you provide steady shelter. You’re monogramming towels for your ride-or-dies as we speak.
Perhaps a hidden talent is being unearthed by the encouragement of your chosen family — you begin to monetize your wood burnings, or publish your satirical sketches. Whatever it is that lights a bonfire in your belly, make sure to offer thanks.
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Sometimes the vibes are simply in our favor. Now is the time to bask in everything coming hither and thither. Who is pulling up a stump at your fire? What do you attract into your field when you trust the bow-string tension of your delight? As you rove your environs, panpipes in hand, woodland creatures trailing behind — what will you do with these weeks of good press?
This season of flattering lighting might lead to deeper questions, however, around your roots. As you coast, again, on the sheer force of your optimism, when does the drift prevent you from sturdier anchorage? When does your famous charm, which could allow you to surf couches forever if you let it, start to feel like a strain?
This uncertainty plugs into a longer process of foundations in your life shifting, or in a state of natural decline. Fog patches have obscured, for a while now, where you want to hang your hat and who will ride with you into your endless silver linings.
The challenge will be clarifying exactly the anchorage that will support your personal growth right now. Choosing what’s built to last, and what will provide steady rooting, among this embarrassment of riches is your task in the weeks ahead.
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Matters of love and connection may feel elusive now, as if seen through a dark glass. Lovers slip through your fingers like water, or a friendship is shape-shifting in ways you don’t have words for yet.
Secret liaisons and indulgences kindle your passionate side, though care must be taken that liminal entanglements don’t compromise your self-worth, or your pocket book (and you have worked very hard indeed on both).
Perhaps you simply need more time than usual to recharge your cha-cha batteries: three naps for every night out you attend.
The weeks ahead, however, could provide the opportunity to fall in love with the spaciousness of your solitude and repose. Rest stops and private time could be the portal to forays through the collective unconscious. There is treasure to be discovered here, which could bring magical inspiration to a writing project (or inspire fruitful private journaling).
You might also find that a wild and restless part of yourself is waiting to be claimed in that cabin retreat in the woods, or a more personal inner sanctum. What parts of you come to life in spaces beyond prying eyes or the digital box of mirrors? In what ways is privacy itself an increasingly forbidden (and delightful) fruit?
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Though your first approach to life can be sober, and your resting mode more aloof, there’s a wild and raucous side of you that comes out within the group. The next few weeks may shower you with delightful opportunities to let your freak flag fly with other misfit toys and merry rebels.
In fact, your networks may provide a soft landing, as you continue to carve the authentic ‘you’ out of raw stone. In some ways it’s easier to surrender to hundreds of unknown hands when you crowd surf, than pledge your unfinished masterpiece to the appraisal of a single person. What are these collective enfoldings teaching you about trusting yourself too?
This longer process of self-discovery has been as much about deletion as deliberate marks, as you’ve been made aware of the people, places, and things that will not support the long game of individuation: your potential dwells in the negative-space. For now, you reveal yourself in everything you’ve stripped away — the only person at the punk show in a crisp white t-shirt and pressed chinos.
Just be wary of using the hive-mind, and this moment of collective hedonism, as an escape valve. Don’t forget to nourish your body between the half-dozen Halloween parties you RSVPed. As much as you’re playing hype-person for your community, you can also gas up yourself, and celebrate your many transcendent talents.
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Venus in Sagittarius graces the rarefied heights of your chart, and you may find yourself fitted with a laurel crown or two. Higher ups are suddenly all ears for your most audacious visions, and you may be reaping the benefits of your kindness to an important figure in your field: it really is the people you know.
Just make sure you stay grounded in your truth, and personal vision, as the big whales circle, and your collective offerings start to make waves.
This moment of public accolades may connect to a longer unfolding in the way you present yourself to the world. You cannot help but embody the imagination, artistry, glamour, and transcendence flowing effortlessly through you now, and this renaissance of the self has informed your life direction.
All worldly success, however, turns to ashes if you’re not scheduling in ample time to rest, and absorb all the change on a cellular (and energetic) level. Naps, private time, and calculated retreats from the public eye will be the secret to your long-term (and sustainable) success.
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Venus in Leo is sass and sequin, bravado and big hair, grace and grandiloquence. This season though? Venus’ strut through Leo from June 26th/27th to July 21st has the air of a boxing ring walk.
With draconian Saturn in Aquarius, flag-burning Uranus in Taurus, and aggressively-maned Mars in Leo, the fixed signs are the site of a major gridlock. When Venus waltzes into the fray at the end of June, it’s not clear whether the “lesser benefic” comes bearing bandaids or boxing gloves.
On the one hand, Venus wants to soothe and reconcile. On the other: between Venus’ opposition to Saturn on July 6th, its square to Uranus on July 8th, and its conjunction with Mars on July 13th, Venus has its own fetters to wriggle free from. In a proud sign like Leo, hitched to an inflamed temper like Mars, Venus sets off a few fireworks.
Venus rules love, pleasure and beauty, and these parts of your life could get thorny as Venus presses through these trials. Ego reactions and diva moments will abound, but they may not help diffuse tension. When it comes to your relations, your art, and your pleasures, see if you can harness this heat toward constructive or life-affirming channels.
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Your Venus in Leo horoscopes are meant to be read as inspiration. If you know both your rising sign and sun sign, please read both horoscopes. You’ll know which one resonates more for you from week to week. Take what works for you, and leave the rest. If you want to share this work, please credit the source by quoting it and providing a link to this post and website. Thank you for your support and for spreading the work around. We really appreciate it and you.
The following horoscopes were written by Eliza Robertson.
Venus in Leo beams the Glamlite on you and your creative quests. ‘Tis the season to post lip-syncing TikToks, to dust the cobwebs off your manuscripts-in-progress, and to boogie like a Bird of Paradise in a courtship dance.
With Venus pitching into the fixed-sign fray with Saturn, Uranus and Mars, however, you may need to don your wrestling singlet. While Venus’ opposition to Saturn on July 6th brings activities to a crunching halt, the tripwire from Uranus two days later will upend business as usual.
Mars in Leo will add heckling and lighter fluid, and when Venus joins the red planet on July 13th, things could get flammable. (Though in your house of pleasure, this heat might be steamily redirected.)
Expect creative blocks; expect lovers’ squabbles; expect bombast, and expect to blaze through anything holding you back.
As Venus smolders into Leo on June 26th/27th, your ruling planet gets rebranded. The grace-spinning, rose-plucking, chocolate-nibbling paramour of the solar system swaps its pearls for a marabou boa. Venus in Leo doesn’t do understatement — especially not while dancing in the crosshairs with Mars, Saturn and Uranus.
While Leo may bring a light touch (and touch of gloss) to family or home matters, things could get sticky around July 6th, when Venus opposes schoolmarm Saturn in your career sector.
Maybe a boss is breathing down your neck, or maybe you’re frothing with your own urgency of what needs to get done. Work and home demands could feel inimical right now, stretching you in opposite directions.
When Venus squares off with Uranus two days later, there’s a chance you’ll want to smash through any barriers or glass ceilings keeping you stuck. While you’ve likely been experiencing this rebel energy for a while, Venus in Leo will lend you the sass and spunk to launch your own pièces de résistance.
Venus cruises Leo from June 26th/27th to July 21st, blazing your news feeds with all the hottest gossip. Whatever writing, speaking or learning ventures you tend on the side, Venus polishes your words with gold-tongued charisma.
Starting around July 6th, Venus saunters into the ring with Saturn, Uranus and Mars in the fixed signs. Not just there for eye candy, Venus blows gold dust and chili powder onto the melee. On the one hand, your exchanges may need this comic relief. On the other: words remain charged and barbed.
Whatever spikes get exposed in your communications, Venus wears them on a leather collar. The words you hurl will linger after the smoke clears; be judicious about which social media bin fires you wade into.
The planet of love and adornment will flame through Leo from June 26th/27th until July 21st, dusting off your costume jewelry and gold trinkets. Leo represents your treasure chest and piggy bank: the corner of your chart where you earn and splurge.
Under normal circumstances, Venus wants you to treat yourself with all the sparkle and splendor you can rationalize to your monthly budget. This season though, the circumstances are far from “normal.”
Starting around July 6th, Venus will surf into the turbulence of Mars, Saturn and Uranus in fixed signs. This is Part II of this year’s gnarliest astrology, and Venus arrives at the ring, wrists taped and ready to rumble. For you, the fracas could manifest as tension between what’s yours and what you share with other people.
Venus will collude with hot-headed Mars on July 13th, goading you to roll high. Meanwhile Saturn, the IRS auditor of the season, glowers from the other side of the sky. Risks could come with a hefty reality check. This is a time to dream wild, but sleep on any major decisions, especially if they concern your savings.
While the sun is always your greatest accessory, the glow that surrounds you just got more honeyed. From June 26th/27th – July 21st, Venus will swan through Leo, fluffing your mane or peacock feathers. ‘Tis the season to play dress-up, take selfies as a devotional act, and get shameless with your adornments.
However, this isn’t your usual golden hour. Starting around July 6th, Venus will slip into the scrimmage between Mars, Saturn and Uranus in fixed signs. On the one hand, Venus may offer an analgesic balm for the bruises garnered so far. On the other: Venus in Leo is no demure damsel, and that balm may turn to habanero sauce.
As Venus and Mars intertwine around July 13th, you are the throne of significant heat. Watch your ego reactions, especially in dynamics you share with others. With the current astrology, you can expect your crown to get jostled. The test is to respond with tact, if also firmness. Compassion, if luminous self-respect.
From June 26th/27th until July 21st, Venus pussyfoots through the corner of your chart you tend to keep shielded behind a silk screen. Venus in Leo is effulgent, slinking up to the party in cat eyes and gold lamé. For you, the silk screen diffuses this Leo light, but it provides the ideal conditions for shadow play.
The fixed signs have been highly charged of late, and while this tension reaches your chart from off-center, the pressure could have you tossing and turning. On the one hand, Venus offers a soothing ointment, hushing the inner static long enough for you to catch a catnap. On the other, Venus may reach the end of this period with its mane extensions singed.
The thoughts churned up likely stem from your own mechanisms of self-interference, rather than your environment. That doesn’t make the turbulence any easier to subdue, but self-flagellating only worsens the problem.
Instead, get regal about your personal care regime. Pamper yourself. Neutralize the unhelpful thoughts with radical acts of self-love.
Venus mooches into Leo from June 26th/27th to July 21st, spattering honey and hot sauce onto your friendships and community dynamics. Venus in Leo tends to favor flash over self-effacement, and this could be a time to make a statement with friends, showing up to the parade or protest with extravagant papier-mâché props.
While the dress code for Venus in Leo is always Fabulous, this season, Venus dons a cape and superhero spandex. The first showdown will be with straitlaced Saturn around July 6th, instilling friction between your personal pleasures and the ways you connect with your covens and social groups.
When Venus catches up to Mars on July 13th, dynamics with friends could feel extra prickly. Tread gently around this time. Be soft to yourself and other people. Sometimes thorns only exist to protect things of great beauty; consider the rose, for example.
Venus will shimmy into Leo on June 26th/27th, adding both grace and gumption to your professional life. When it comes to balancing career with home and relationships, you may feel like you’re dancing on pigeon spikes. While Venus will lend you radiance, drawing others to your glow, the fixed signs remain a site of turbulence.
These growing pains will recur all year, but they could feel pronounced around July 6th when Venus opposes Saturn. If presented with a choice between pleasure and duty, or pride and humility, consider whether this dichotomy is a false one.
You’ll have to make choices, of course, but this is only Part II of an ongoing story. Preserve your energy. Mete out your trail mix and dehydrated stew packets for the months ahead. But also: don’t be ashamed to satisfy your needs in the current moment.
Venus flashes into Leo on June 26th/27th, lighting sparklers in the corner of your chart that rules intellectual expansion. Whether you’re sharing ideas with friends, mentors, or academic committees, Venus sprays a little splash and sparkle on your presentations, goading you to flaunt your knowledge.
Venus represents the principle of attraction, and in ordinary circumstances, this transit may lure new teachers, traditions or adventures from the gold mosaic. All of this remains possible, but your relationship with wisdom traditions, and their keepers, is going through a trial by fire at the moment.
Bombast will be pervasive and highly contagious. Ask subversive questions, but remember to apply the same healthy skepticism to your own adamant beliefs.
On June 26th/27th, Venus slides into Leo, gilding your collaborations and joint-ventures. Taken on its own, Venus sweetens the deals in this area, offering a gold nib fountain pen for you to sign on dotted lines. However, planets don’t tend to operate on their own.
Venus’ tour through Leo will be studded with interference from Mars, Saturn and Uranus in the fixed signs. Around July 6th, your urge to hitch yourself to another person in love or business may stir up old fears around scarcity or independence.
Committing yourself to a union requires you to relinquish some personal freedom. If you’ve learned self-reliance as a mode of self-defense, trusting someone else with your love, resources, or security, can feel sacrificial.
And it is, in a way. But it’s also the birth of something new. Something shared. Something you can’t control. Like a rare-blooming orchid that sprouts under the most finicky conditions, that vulnerability is what makes it so precious.
Venus enters Leo on June 26th/27th, planting sunflowers in the corner of your chart that rules love and besottedness. Now, Venus is no doe-eyed princess — not in Leo, and not with Saturn, Mars and Uranus duking it out from the fixed signs.
Starting with an opposition to Saturn on July 6th, Venus appears ringside with a quiver of arrows. The question remains: are the arrowheads laced with love potion or poison?
As Venus sidles up to Mars on July 13th, it could be a little of both. On the one hand, dynamics could get steamy between you and your paramours. On the other: you’ll need to practice fire safety to avoid spontaneous combustions.
All this applies to your platonic and professional partnerships too. If your accomplices feel a little testy right now, don’t force the issue. The most compassionate response may be to give each other thick margins of space.
Venus scooches into Leo on June 26th/27th, reminding you to add pleasure to your work and health regimes. With Mars also in Leo for the last few weeks, a fire has been kindled under your rump, propelling you to complete your daily tasks.
Whatever deadlines you’re bumping against, you may feel unceremonious urgency, even if you’re not sure where the momentum is headed. Venus reminds you to take that movement break, to snack on something that brightens your tongue, and to adorn your office with flowers or cheering colors.
This season, Venus will need your help. Caught between a despotic mountain goat and an unruly cannon, the planet of love and pleasure has seen better hair days. Anxious or fearful thinking could get activated at this time, and it will be harder (and all the more crucial) to practice self-care.
To interrupt the pattern: pamper yourself relentlessly. Have a stay-at-home spa day. Eat something ambrosial. Wear fabrics or ensembles that make you feel like a god/dess.
Venus gets cozy in Cancer from June 2nd through June 26th. Right away, the planet of loving devotion makes a tender trine to Jupiter and the cup of sweet satisfaction runs over. Pleasure and wishes-come-true pour forth in what is one of the most delicious aspects of the year.
Next, on June 12th and 21st respectively, Venus mingles with the outer planets Uranus and Neptune inviting otherworldly notions to this otherwise domestic affair. Bonds turn electric and fantastic as Venus leaves the door open to far out possibilities.
Venus wraps up her stay in Cancer with an opposition to Pluto, the planet of shadow and obsession, on June 23rd. This is quicksand territory. Loving the muddy versions of ourselves is the task.
With the following horoscopes, make a heartfelt wish, flirt with the farfetched and journey deep within to embrace your own alluring power.
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Your Venus in Cancer horoscopes are meant to be read as inspiration. If you know both your rising sign and sun sign, please read both horoscopes. You’ll know which one resonates more for you from week to week. Take what works for you, and leave the rest. If you want to share this work, please credit the source by quoting it and providing a link to this post and website. Thank you for your support and for spreading the work around. We really appreciate it and you. The following horoscopes were written by Thea Anderson.
When Venus glides through Cancer, look for love in all the right places — the ones you call home. Make a wish for your best case scenario living situation, because your current residence could become just that. Decorate, adorn and celebrate your abode. Cradle the loving vibes like a newborn kitten but maybe say no to bringing home strays. When Venus melts into a puddle of wistful romance, be sure to save a little bit of TLC for yourself.
On June 23rd, see where you’d be properly served by exploring watery caverns of the past. When you think about it, familial relationships predate our physical birth. Open your heart to those lineages. What’s revealed through tradition and ancestor wisdom calls on you to venture further along your roots of origin. In this case, your flashlight is your heart.
Fondness and affection for your local community overflow when Venus settles into Cancer. Exchanges with shopkeepers, neighbors, and BFFs become sweet as sugar over the next 3ish weeks. In fact, these interactions could become a full-on candy fever dream and a part of you wants to keep it going.
The trick is to exist with one foot in this river of delights while the other is planted firmly on solid ground. By June 23rd, the consequences of the sugar rush bring an aha moment. So as not to crash, look deeply into the shadow, the truth that needs to be brought to the forefront. Remember, you’ve got agency over which rabbit holes you tumble down.
When Venus waltzes into Cancer, you’ll be feeling the love when it comes to material comforts and treasured belongings. Opportunities to receive bonus income flow in and the bounty is truly a blessing. This open door directs the resources straight to you and you’ll be feeling shored up and echoing many thanks.
You may be swept up in the sentimentality of your prized possessions because for you, an antique mirror is more than just a pretty bauble. If you find yourself caught in a daydream loop of all the fancy things at your disposal, check in around June 23rd.
Materiality and spirituality aren’t divorced from each other — rather, your good fortune positions you to reverberate gratitude for all things close to your heart.
Mirror mirror on the wall…. When Venus enters Cancer, the planet of attraction shines an enchanting spotlight on you. In the beginning of June, you’ve got permission to put on the rose-hued glasses and see where possibilities for pleasure — romantic or not — abound. Embrace all the trappings that make you feel in-your-skin.
Allow the heart to swell to great proportions as long as you can remember where the line is when it comes to giving yourself away to passions. On June 23rd, investigate where you might benefit from taking care of self, body and mind first and foremost. Your power multiplies as you prioritize yourself and create a sustainable practice of self love.
Sweet loving care is waiting in the wings when Venus enters Cancer. The planet of union and affection is strolling through the part of your chart that retains mystery and secrets. Keeping it interesting, if you will. You could inadvertently imprint on your admirers, causing them to form cute attachments.
The nurturing affection that stirs beneath the surface unfolds when you can make time to turn your phone off, unplug, and sit in silence. Cherish the away-time to connect to the blessings.
Things get a little Beauty and the Beast on June 23rd when Venus contends with Pluto. Merge the two principles of love and shadow for a deeply powerful combination. Who knows what can transform from undesirable to desirable?
Cozy up to your admirers and adoring fans because your crew has you feeling majorly taken care of. When Venus enters Cancer, the planet of adoration will have you relishing amorous connections to those in your crowd. It’s not that you need the masses to fawn over you. Rather, you value the sort of bond that you can foster over time from seedling to mother oak.
Boundaries among your affinity groups may get hazy if you allow small slights to add up without being addressed. By June 23rd, repressed feelings crescendo as Venus opposes Pluto. Have you had your fill? Trust, commitment, consistency, the ability to work through the mud and mire of intimate exchanges — these are the principles that transform neutral acquaintance to close fellowship.
There’s no time to be bashful when Venus enters Cancer and turns the adoring gaze to your work and career. If you’ve spent the last few weeks tenderly fiddling behind the scenes, just wait until people fall in love with your vision in presentation mode. Heartfelt praise reinforces why you’re so devoted to your endeavors. Capitalize on the recognition and appreciation by seeing what fantastic heights you can attain.
Expanding beyond the protective confines of your cocoon can reveal old trepidations about what it means to display your passion. And yet, confronting these shadowy fears, showing them compassion and tenderness, can transform them into good fuel. Caring for the rose of your work means withstanding the prick of a thorn.
When Venus steps into Cancer, you’re invited to embark on pilgrimages of the heart. Fall in love with your studies, travels, and wisdom pursuits all over again. In the beginning of June, you’re flooded with prospects and possibilities in a way that is refreshing and replenishing.
On June 23rd, turn your attention to the churning bend of the river where things get a bit murky. The poet Emily Dickinson asks “Have you got a brook in your little heart,” and therein lies the answer. Be willing to follow the brook to wherever it may lead.
When Venus enters Cancer, you look fondly upon the assets of a collaborator or partner. Thanks to important bonds, you’ve got a sparkly pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The sharing and blending between both sides produce a recipe that you could never have concocted by going it alone.
The love stirred here spills over, soaking through boundaries that you may want in place when it comes to the territory of shared stuff. When that happens, particularly on June 23rd, how can you sort through the junk drawers of partnership? Deep cleaning is often far more emotional and difficult than we anticipate. Confront the nostalgia, feel the memories, then decide whether to cherish or chuck it.
When Venus enters Cancer, the apple of your eye has you seeing hearts and stars. What prime relationship are you hopelessly devoted to? It’s here that you’ll feel a deepening connection, particularly in the beginning of June. Welcome the pleasure and spiritual alignment that’s born from your key union.
On June 23rd, love and partnership get intense. The Florence Nightingale effect warns us of how easy it is to fall for someone simply because they need our care. What if both sides of the arrangement meet each other with their cups already full?
When Venus enters Cancer, the planet of love cozies into the area of your life that has to do with work, health and processes. What’s not to love here? The engine of your routine deserves to be held too. Gifts of tender support are the right maintenance. If you have an animal familiar, it’s a great time to care for them and enjoy that bond.
On June 23rd, tend to the dark and dusty corners that usually get ignored on the daily. You may need to roll your sleeves up, but this sort of work and attention is ultimately a form of self-care.
When Venus enters Cancer, the planet of love and sweetness plants the seeds of creation in fertile ground. Write love poetry, watch RomComs, and allow feelings of amore to lead the way. You can swim deep here, washing all your passion projects in blessed creative waters.
As you dote on your darlings, notice what calls for more caretaking. Inherent with birthing new creations is the responsibility to them as they mature in the world. When sea turtles hatch, they must embark on a treacherous journey to safety. And they are well served by it. If you love something, give it the same chance to thrive.
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