Venus through the Places in a Natal Chart | and a bonus haiku
If you’re familiar with astrology, you’ll know that a natal chart has 12 places (or houses), and each place contains topics related to life in the material world. In the modern era, places are called houses but, historically, houses referred to the zodiacal sign in the numbered place.
Briefly, the strongest are the angular places (or pivots), which are
1: life, the native, health, vitality
4: parents, home, property
7: relationships, enemies
10: repuation, profession, honors.
The good places are
5: pleasure, children, entertainment
11: alliances, hopes, wishes for the future.
The most difficult places are
6: illness, injury, labor, drudgery
8: death, inheritance; entanglements with others
12: isolation, suffering, hidden enemies, self-defeat.
That leaves those that fall in the middle of the spectrum (9 is best, then 3, then 2).
2: money earned and spent, lifestyle
3: local environment, communication, siblings
9: religion, spirituality, foreign travel
Of course, that’s a snapshot of the topics. There’s actually quite a bit more to them, but that should be enough to understand the haiku in relation to topics of the 12 places.
Venus is moistening and wet, with some warming qualities. She represents social interactions, pleasure-based things and activities (versus Jupiter, which is respect-based and stands alone); also, harmony, cleanliness, beauty, joy, and delight. She can point to women, mothers, younger sisters, relationships, singers, musicians, artists, strength of body (but weakness of soul), flesh of the body, good character, brightness, splendor, and justice. She is the general significator for tolerance, tranquility, truth-telling, and pleasant speech. Remember, even good things can go too far and become destructive: conceit, vanity, boasting, haughtiness, false oaths, overindulgence, etc. Venus is a benefic planet, supportive and productive to life, and she will try to improve conditions, but the place she is in will still steer topics, for better or worse.
This haiku is a generic, minimal representation of Venus through the twelve places of a natal chart. The significations do not account for sect, signs, aspects, or condition of the planets, and are severely limited to syllables. (I may have broken haiku rules using punctuation but the syllables conform to 5–7–5.)
Aphrodite in
the first, fleshy, truth-teller
social, indulgent
second, lavish style
spending for arts, food, and wine
earning from pleasures
third, speech of nectar
local ritual, goodwill
rapport with siblings
fourth, fortune with home
successful, affectionate
parents, family
fifth, vices, art, games
leisures, delights, rendezvous
cherubic children
sixth, sickness, disease
from obsessions, addictions
some doctors or vets
seventh, benefits
from marriage, relationships,
business partnerships
eighth, losing partner
sorrow in relationships
peaceful death, riches
ninth, sacred travels
esteemed in religious groups,
foreign love, partner
tenth, well-liked, honored
success with authority
pleasant profession
eleventh, moral,
respectable friends, allies
good luck, hopes fulfilled
twelfth, idle pleasures
clandestine relationships
religious retreat
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