Venus in Scorpio
Het Monster: Venus in Scorpio My great love Lies hidden in the depths, Words cannot express How dear you are to me. In expressing affection to your child with Venus in Scorpio, there is likely to be an “all or nothing” approach. Scorpio is a sign associated with extremes and intense emotional depth. If he loves you, he loves deeply and intensely. If you give him reason to doubt you, he may first try to conceal his feelings or even jealousy. But if he feels truly betrayed, he may emotionally withdraw from you completely—forever. Once emotionally withdrawn, Scorpio can be pleasant, even friendly, but the passion for the former love object disappears. This child is unlikely to have many friendships. He is not interested in superficial relationships. Friends with whom he can feel a deep bond and strong mutual trust will be the only ones he considers worth having. A few close friends will likely remain his friends forever, and he will be very loyal to them. Since he has few friends, he tends to be possessive toward them, which, of course, can cause problems in some cases if the chosen friends do not want that. Your child needs to learn some difficult lessons about the balance between control and freedom. This child may have a magnetic, seductive kind of attractiveness, possibly with an aura of mystery. He may cultivate such qualities because he enjoys having secrets and the sense of power they provide. In the arts, a child with Venus in Scorpio will also be drawn to intensity and power. He may excel in expressionist painting, deeply emotional music, or dance. Encourage him to find a way to express deep feelings here. It may be difficult for him to put intense emotions into words, but he needs an outlet.
Indubala. Planets in Signs. (Indian tradition)
These people may have a strong or large body, be bold in matters related to sensual pleasure. They suffer from disappointments in love, accumulate property by suspicious means, are poetic, artistic, and inclined toward mysticism. They are meticulous or become involved in legal disputes. Qualities such as Scorpio’s vengefulness, intuition, secrecy, etc., will manifest in these people and in their relationships with others. They love picturesque places, are talkative, emotional, and capable of committing some shameful acts.
Pavel Globa. Planets in the Signs of the Zodiac
Here Venus in Scorpio is visiting Mars and Pluto and is in detriment. Venus in Scorpio gives eternal dissatisfaction of feelings, sharpness and intensity. This dissatisfaction occurs because Venus provides some form or potential state, while Pluto constantly drives this form toward chaotic manifestations. Therefore, you usually find it very difficult to settle on anything; your feelings are typically in an unformed and somewhat chaotic state. Sometimes you may experience jealousy alongside extreme attachment. Most likely, you have had many complexes since childhood, especially in the sphere of love and sex, possibly very intense passion, since Venus here is visiting Mars and Pluto. With improper upbringing, you may fear sexual life—that is, what you need most. If these complex clamps break loose, sexual insatiability may manifest. This is not yet the worst outcome. If the complexes are not worked through, cruelty and sadism may develop, but the most terrifying scenario is when these complexes turn into cruelty toward yourself—that is, self-destruction and masochism. This is already a mental deviation and a step toward spiritual degradation. If you torment others, not everyone will tolerate it; they may fight back and “set you on the right path,” but if you torment yourself, since there are many indifferent people who don’t care, you may go mad. Such a person is capable of extremes in love to the point of murder or suicide. Sometimes you may experience crises of conscience and tragic self-torture. Usually, the passions described by writers like the Marquis de Sade most likely apply to people with Venus in Scorpio.
When a person with this cosmogram tries to work through these complexes, they are released, and all barriers are destroyed. This happens when Pluto is strong in the horoscope; it is through Pluto that the barriers collapse, all restrictions are removed, and an extremely intense sexual life emerges. In this case, you can influence a partner almost hypnotically, not necessarily with words but with your emotional state—your emotional intensity is extraordinary. As a result, partners may behave toward you in ways they would never behave toward anyone else in a different situation.
In general, you likely experience very high emotional tension, and with a strong Venus in Scorpio, contempt for superstitions may form. There are often unpredictable obsessions and a pull toward partners with the strongest sexual energy. As a result of interacting with you, your partners may also experience a collapse of their barriers and norms, and they may not even realize what has suddenly come over them—that is, their consciousness changes in that moment.
This situation is similar to Venus in Aries in that both can involve systems of willful suppression through which you limit your emotional expressions. However, here Mars is even stronger than in Aries because the will is directed inward, and it is already ordered. In this case, a hellish cauldron forms in the subconscious, and this can lead to cruelty and sadism. Therefore, rising to a very high level of sexuality is not the worst outcome.
In a pathological horoscope, Venus in Scorpio may indicate homosexuality and other perversions. In general, Venus in Scorpio usually gives you the ability to derive pleasure from risk, tension, and pushing circumstances “to the edge.” In this case, you do not merely love tense situations or the need for their prolonged expression, as with Venus in Aries, but you are inclined toward cases where life itself hangs in the balance. Usually, you experience an extraordinary emotional high, and the greater the danger, the more you are able to “blossom.” Your feelings may renew, and your strength may recover remarkably quickly. Obviously, you may be drawn to high-risk, extreme sports involving struggle against the elements, because Pluto is the ruler of the elements, and the battle is waged through it.
It is difficult to speak of the highest expression of Venus here. Since Scorpio is the sign through which we access the higher world—that is, information from another realm—there may be very complex situations where the earthly world and earthly desires do not satisfy you, and you destroy them. You may feel that nothing is as it should be. This arises because your criterion for harmony is not merely unformed but completely shattered; a chaotic version emerges. Alternatively, your criterion for harmony may be based on higher categories that likely come from another world. In this case, you may develop an inclination toward the logic of statistical systems of any form and toward finding foundations that differ qualitatively from the ordinary. For example, you may come into conflict with social norms regarding love and sex.
Just as, on a lower level, you need confrontation with danger for development, on a higher level you need confrontation with another world, and it is through such confrontation that an aesthetic system can emerge. On the ordinary level of the emotional horizontal, your development may be severely stunted; you may not work through your complexes because in this world you find no criteria for building an aesthetic system. Here, Scorpio’s task is to push all aesthetic systems to the brink of destruction, testing their strength. But if you do form some system of values, aesthetic criteria, or attachments, they will certainly be very strong, having passed through the crucible of the harshest trials.
At a fairly high level of spiritual development, you may have very strong attachments and love, but this is rare because you must first reach such a level. It is good when this is accompanied by physical fidelity, because Venus visiting Pluto generally has a destructive effect on romantic attachments.
Het Monster. Planets in the Signs of the Zodiac
Strong sexual desire, jealousy. Afflicted Venus gives predominance of sensuality over reason and true feeling. Hence—unhappy married life. With an unfavorable aspect to Mars—danger of great troubles or even death through a woman. With favorable aspects—high ideals in love and friendship, hence shyness and conflicts with a partner from whom the same is expected. If Venus in a woman’s chart has bad aspects, she becomes a “femme fatale.” Interest in various mysteries and the occult.
Catherine Aubier. Astrological Dictionary
Scorpio is drawn to difficulties in love and does not feel fully alive unless living in an atmosphere of passion. Their love resembles hatred; it is intense and rejects half-measures. They seek a magical union of love, which Scorpio tries to achieve through physical union. If Scorpio is unsatisfied in love, sublimation or perversion may occur. Scorpio may feel the need to challenge, to approach the impossible, and to complicate what is easy to accomplish. However, their ideal is simple: universal unity…
When jealousy arises, its source in Scorpio is often more intellectual than emotional. Even the most vivid Scorpios may enjoy having rivals. Passions are always strong.
Avesalom Podvodny. Planets in the Signs of the Zodiac
At a low level of development, Venus openly hinders Scorpio, suddenly endowing him with a softness alien to his nature and provoking unexpected moments of acute perception of beauty, which prevents him from fully savoring life. At the same time, he is drawn to harmonious forms and society, initially in the form of venomous criticism of art and social norms; yet, though he denies it all, deep down Scorpio is very attached to art and sometimes feels it subtly and emotionally. At least, the development of Venus gradually softens the inner contradictions of his subconscious and gives him a subtlety of perception of the world and, over time, a gentleness of expression.
At a high level of development, this Venus position indicates an artist with a delicate, emotionally penetrating vision of the world, whose works compel us to change inwardly, deeply touching our feelings and lingering in sensual memory. In general, Venus greatly facilitates Scorpio’s problem of emotional expression—at a low level through intense infatuation, at a higher level through the sublimation of art. It also greatly expands his capacity for perception, but for this he must abandon his initial focus on purely raw energetic assessments of reality and try to perceive the subtler aesthetic currents, to which he indeed has excellent abilities.
Venus in detriment only emphasizes (rather than weakens) his tastes; the person feels the need to act according to what seems beautiful to them—thus hearing the voice of the egregore.
Francis Sakoian. The Planets in Signs
Strong sexual drive, passion, jealousy, secrecy. Lack of reason and tact, great tension in love affairs, excess and lack of restraint, which can lead to venereal diseases, bladder ailments, and in women—uterine diseases. Bright individuals capable of a second marriage or risky relationships, but may also demonstrate asceticism, purification from sexual desires. Relations with blood relatives are strained. A desire to dominate in marriage, partnerships, which can lead to conflicts. In love, you seek a deep, intense, passionate union with your beloved and form strong bonds and attachments. Even before marriage (or without marriage), you are already married. This happens on a deep emotional level. Often, you are a despotic owner, a dictator who claims full rights over your beloved, intolerant of any threat to your union. You can be very demanding of your beloved. You tend to be somewhat suspicious or distrustful in cases of purely platonic, friendly relationships that your beloved forms with others. If you have ever been betrayed, you are capable of hatred of equal intensity and depth to the love you once felt. You are drawn to people shrouded in mystery. In later life, heart disease is possible.
Planets in Signs. The Art of Prediction. Semira and V. Vetas
You are a person of strong passions and emotions, inclined to dramatize events and sometimes find tragedy where there is none. Avoid demandingness, impatience, and jealousy.
