Venus in the 11th House
Frances Sakoian. Planets in Houses
Friendship and connections through group activities. Friendliness with friends means that hopes and wishes are generally fulfilled. Many friends among the opposite sex and people in the arts. Meeting a partner among friends and social connections. Friends often become lovers, and lovers become friends. You are a very sociable person who seeks like-minded individuals and cannot do without the company of good friends or people to spend time with. You enjoy working with others on collective projects or engaging in public activities. You love being part of a club or some kind of team.
B. Israel. Planets in Houses
The person engages in the smallest but most stable interest groups, values a certain intimacy. Their social role is to ease tension in society. They blend love with friendship. All their plans are built on intuition. It is difficult for them to imagine that this will change drastically. They rely on circumstances. They have a vivid emotional vision of future life—intuition. Aesthetic thinking.
Frances Sakoian. Planets in Houses
Friendly love adorns the universe. This person is very social within a group; they have a keen sense of the nuances of social relationships and always strive to be tactful and elegant—both outwardly and inwardly. With harmonious Venus aspects, this comes easily; with afflicted Venus, there is a problem of incompatibility between their taste and manner of interaction with others and what is accepted in the group, which can lead to conflicts. With a strong Venus, the main focus of their group vision is aesthetic—they accept in the group what seems beautiful, and the rest does not suit them, so they either try to change it or step aside and not participate. In general, they naturally love their group as a whole, and even individual members, and if Venus is not heavily afflicted, the group will also love them. (It should be remembered that with Venus in opposition to the 5th house, there is a strong risk that this love will not fit within the framework of group work.) At a high level of development, this person gravitates toward groups related to art, or their specific role in the group is connected to art. Here, the karmic task is precise social adaptation within the group and then its social and aesthetic education. This person is loved by friends of both sexes; hidden homosexual motives are possible, especially with an aspect from Uranus to Venus. They enjoy subtlety in relationships, the external beauty of friends; they are drawn to their social status and connections. With harmonious Venus aspects, friendship with people from the highest social strata is possible. With Venus afflicted, issues of social status and the love interests of friends become very acute—one must overcome elitism.
Indubala. Planets in Houses. (Indian Tradition)
This is a favorable position for Venus; such a placement gives good children, money without much effort, a good marriage partner, and a compassionate, sympathetic nature. These people perform work that influences large masses of people. They love to travel. They are conservative; they succeed in joint business and in influencing public opinion.
Het Monster. Planets in Houses
A happy marriage; the first child is a girl. Good financial standing. The beginning of life is happier than the end. A second marriage is possible if the 11th house is in Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio, Sagittarius, or Pisces.
Bill Herbst. The Houses of the Horoscope
Participation in group life. You enjoy the holistic experience of socializing, and few things in life bring you more satisfaction than being part of a group’s work. You fit into a group easily, naturally, and comfortably. Mediation is your natural role within the group. However, accept the inevitability of conflicts, as even in calm organizations, people clash. The task is to “lubricate” the mechanisms of public organizations with grace and charm without compromising personal values. Appropriate behavior. You enjoy social rituals and eagerly await the chance to demonstrate your sense of the higher society. You adapt especially harmoniously to formal gatherings with carefully designed rules of conduct because the “intrigues of the court” (whether serious or soap-opera-like) are a source of pleasure. You are sensitive to how others would like to see you because you want to be liked, but avoid the trap of artificiality. The task is to be both attractive and sincere. Friendship, social circle. Friendship is intertwined with personal love. There is a high probability that friendship will turn into love and vice versa. You may be drawn to artistic personalities, strongly attracted by physical beauty, as well as those who serve beauty devotedly. You respect social rituals. Your friendships are pleasant, sweet, and have a soft elegance. You want your friends to constantly enjoy you and also to bring you joy. The task is to make your social circle a source of and an outlet for love and beauty in your life. Collaborative creativity. Collaborative creativity holds high priority and brings you immense satisfaction. Your talent is to polish the ideas and structures that the rest of the group generates. Being receptive to harmony, you “smooth the rough edges,” calm conflicting members, and at the right moment remind the group of the need to allow the creative process to unfold rather than forcing it with noise and clamor. Your creative role is to beautifully frame the group’s self-expression. Accepting love. You feel loved when your beauty is recognized, when you are showered with gifts or affection. You may demand to be put on a pedestal, though you are too experienced to display such overt egotism. The issue is sincerity. You enjoy being charmed, and of course, you charm in return. Being loved is a role that appeals to you. But do your admirers truly love you, or are they merely playing a part, pretending? Are you in their hearts, or are you merely part of the script? Perhaps there is no difference at all between the two, though this depends on the sign in which Venus is located and its aspects. The task is to embrace the archetypes of the admirer and the beloved in all their splendor, but then step away from the rituals of love and feel the real people who can turn love into something more than a dance. After all, love is a mystery.
Universal Interpretation. Planets in Houses
Such a person has many friends, most of whom are of the opposite sex. They help him in his career and personal life. Often, a life partner comes from the same profession. He has many acquaintances among artists and musicians, financiers and psychologists. He successfully works in clubs, youth organizations, and charitable organizations. He tends to be excessively idealistic, so to achieve his goals, he needs to become more realistic. If the energy is used incorrectly, he often chooses the wrong friends, which later brings many disappointments. Such people love to discuss their beliefs and values with a group of friends. They are kind to friends who try to justify their hopes and fulfill their desires. A life partner is usually chosen from among acquaintances and friends. Friendship often turns into love and vice versa. The help of friends sometimes brings considerable profit, contributes to increasing popularity, and helps satisfy material needs and spiritual interests. Kindly disposed women provide assistance at every step. Marriage turns out to be interesting and fruitful. The defeat of the planet may be associated with troubles arising from excessive entertainment in the circle of acquaintances. In this case, friends may turn out to be unreliable and overly eccentric, bringing scandals, losses, and disappointments. Many temptations come precisely through such people if there is no tendency to control the energy of the aspect. In such cases, excessive jealousy, biased judgments, and a tendency to manipulate others or live off a friend may develop. Professional success is often associated with the patronage provided by acquaintances, as well as recommendations from friends, patrons, and sponsors. The support of high-ranking officials and well-known political figures is possible. This is exactly how dreams and hopes can come true. Scientific research, technical invention, literature, and the arts promise to be successful. Such people often become leading directors, psychologists, astrologers, screenwriters, and esotericists. They combine exceptional intuition and rich imagination with sincere humanism; original creativity is combined with an excellent ability for craftsmanship and precise execution of ideas.
B. Huber. Mars, Venus, Moon and Neptune in the Twelve Houses
The libido planets Mars and Venus provide only superficial, fleeting influences in partner relationships and are decisive factors only in isolated cases. We will be convinced of this below when considering the mutual aspects of partners. Only when the libido planets of both partners form more or less exact major aspects to each other is it quite likely that sex is the main unifying force. But when the libido planets of one partner aspect some of the other planets of the other, sex is not so dominant. The latter happens much more often. Libido planets play different roles in the charts of men and women. This also applies to the sexual sphere. Both sexual experience and personal sexual image must meet very high moral standards. There is also a missionary tendency, albeit not in an extreme or deliberate form: we imbue sexuality with meaning that goes beyond the physical. We can even attribute spiritual or therapeutic qualities to it. For example, a psychotherapist inclined toward this tendency may enter into a sexual relationship with a female client who has serious problems in this area. He does so with the firm conviction that he is helping her overcome her difficulties. As a result, he may face serious trouble, up to legal prosecution. But even knowing this, he will still take such a step, guided by an inner certainty of its liberating and, in his opinion, beneficial effect on the client. Such a person is ready to use his sexuality for influence, therapeutic in his view, and therefore noble. This is just one example of the influence of the 11th house. Another, much more likely option is the suppression of sexuality and a tendency toward complete moderation. Sex is considered something belonging to a lower order of things. This position is also quite categorical. Libido planets in the 11th house find it difficult to find a balance. Very often, they channel their energy into schemes based on moral and ethical rules, which gives rise to a kind of fanatical religiosity. In this case, the lack of a love life is often compensated by sexual fantasies, especially characteristic of fire signs, or verbal sex, reading love novels, etc. We are attracted to people who hold important positions in science or have achieved outstanding success in any humanitarian field; we would like to marry someone who intellectually surpasses us and would admire them.
