Venus in the 11th House
Frances Sakoian. Planets in Houses
Friendship and relationships through group activities. Friendliness with friends means that hopes and desires 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 with whom you can spend time. You enjoy working with others on collective projects or engaging in public activities. You particularly like being a member of a club or some 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 mix love with friendship. All their predictions are based 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 in a group; they have a keen sense of the subtleties of social relationships and always strive to be tactful and elegant—both externally and internally. With harmonious aspects to Venus, this comes easily; with afflicted Venus, problems arise with a mismatch 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 group’s perception is primarily aesthetic—they accept in the group what seems beautiful and are dissatisfied with the rest, seeking to change it or step aside and not participate. Generally, they naturally love their group as a whole, and even individual members, and if Venus is not severely afflicted, the group will also love them. (It should be noted that with Venus in opposition to the 5th house, there is a high risk that this love will not fit within the framework of group work.) At a high level of development, this person gravitates toward groups connected with art, or their specific role in the group is related 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 appreciate subtlety in relationships, the external beauty of friends; they are impressed by their social status and connections. With harmonious aspects to Venus, friendship with people from the highest social strata is possible. With afflicted Venus, issues of social status and the romantic entanglements 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 kind, compassionate nature. These people perform work that influences large masses of people. They enjoy traveling. They are conservative; they succeed in joint business ventures and in influencing public opinion.
Het Monster. Planets in Houses
A happy marriage; the first child is a girl. A good financial position. The beginning of life is happier than the end. A second marriage is possible if the 11th house is 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 effort. You fit into a group easily, naturally, and comfortably. Mediation is your natural role within the group. However, accept that conflicts are inevitable, as people will always clash even in the calmest organizations. 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 and 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, powerfully attracted by physical beauty, as well as those who serve beauty devotedly. You value social rituals. Your friendships are pleasant, sweet, and possess 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 and 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 ideas and structures generated by the rest of the group. Being receptive to harmony, you “smooth out the rough edges,” calm conflicting members, and at the right moment remind the group of the need to let the creative process 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 truly in their hearts, or are you merely part of the script? Perhaps there is no real difference between the two, though this depends on the sign in which Venus is placed and its aspects. The task is to embrace the archetypes of the admirer and the beloved in all their splendor, and then step away from the rituals of love to feel the physical 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 his professional circle. 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 overly idealistic, so to achieve his goals, he needs to become more realistic. If he misuses the energy, he often chooses the wrong friends, which later leads to 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. Friends’ help sometimes brings considerable profit, contributes to increasing popularity, and helps satisfy material needs and spiritual interests. Kindly disposed women provide assistance at every step. The marriage turns out to be interesting and fruitful. The planet’s affliction may be associated with troubles arising from excessive entertainment among acquaintances. In this case, friends may prove unreliable, overly eccentric, and bring 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’s support may develop. Professional success is often linked to the patronage provided by acquaintances, as well as recommendations from friends, patrons, and sponsors. The support of high-ranking officials and prominent political figures is possible. This is exactly how dreams and hopes can come true. Scientific research, technical inventions, literature, and the arts promise success. Such people often become leading directors, psychologists, astrologers, screenwriters, and esotericists. They combine exceptional intuition and rich imagination with sincere humanism; original creativity is paired with an excellent ability for craftsmanship and precise execution of ideas.
B. Huber. Mars, Venus, Moon, and Neptune in the Twelve Houses
Libido planets Mars and Venus provide only superficial, fleeting influences in relationships and are decisive factors only in isolated cases. We will see 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 likely that sex is the main binding force. But when the libido planets of one partner aspect certain planets of the other, sex does not dominate as much. The latter occurs 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, though not extreme or deliberate: we imbue sexuality with meaning beyond the physical. We may even attribute spiritual or therapeutic qualities to it. For example, a psychotherapist inclined toward this tendency might enter into a sexual relationship with a female client who has serious issues in this area. He does so with the firm conviction that it will help her overcome her difficulties. As a result, he may face serious trouble, up to legal prosecution. Yet, even knowing this, he will still take such a step, guided by an inner certainty of its liberating and beneficial effect on the client. Such a person is ready to use their sexuality for influence—therapeutic, in their view, and thus 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 struggle to find 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, and so on. We are attracted to people who hold important positions in science or have achieved notable success in any humanitarian field; we would want to marry someone who intellectually surpasses us and would admire them.
