Venus in Aries in the First House

The placement of Venus in Aries indicates that you have a need for independence and to validate your selfhood, both within your relationships and in the way in which you formulate your value system. Very often, the issue of self and other in your relationships is a major emphasis in your life, especially if similar planetary placements and aspects reinforce this. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Aries are a result of your need to assert yourself in spheres of life where others are to be taken into consideration.

There is considerable tension suggested by the placement of Venus in Aries. This is symbolized by the natural opposition between Aries and Venus-ruled Libra. Aries is the Cardinal Fire sign. The active fiery nature of Aries symbolically creates stress for the passive and harmonious nature of Venus. With Venus in Aries, the drive for independence associated with Aries is at odds with the relationship function represented by Venus. This placement calls on you to be creative in expressing the Venus-associated functions in ways that are compatible with the Aries energy.

Venus also symbolizes the anima in the psyche. Thus, if you are female with Venus in Aries, you are likely to model your femininity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Aries. If you are male, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Aries-associated traits.

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in Aries, if you are insecure, you will feel that your sense of self-identity is threatened by the compromise and surrender that normally takes place in a relationship. You are likely to be overly assertive in your relationships. At any rate, the fear that you will lose your independence or your self-identity will prevent you from developing your relationships in meaningful ways so that they are truly valid. Having Venus in Aries, because you cannot truly appreciate relationship, your values are all self dominated. Your will to act in order to possess the objects of your desire is likely to be very strong because you feel that you will not be able to enjoy an object unless you act to claim it. Driven by fear to always “grab yours,” however, you are never free to enjoy the beauty around you.

Venus in the 1st House:

With Venus in the 1st House, it is likely that your modes of evaluation and relationship are at once inwardly focused and externally projected. Generally, you are very much aware of your likes and dislikes. If you are more self-aware, you will also be conscious of why you like and dislike and even of the processes that you use to evaluate people and things. Having Venus in the 1st House, you will also be aware of the relationships in your life and the effect that these have on your own sense of self.  Relationships may not be as important to you in themselves as reference points for your own feeling or sense of self.

With Venus in the 1st House, relationships are an important ingredient in how you define yourself and the quality of your relationships can affect your self-esteem and your self-perception. Similarly, what you like and dislike and the things that you possess as a result of your likes and dislikes can have a self-defining role to play.

As an individual with Venus in the 1st House, because your tastes and your relationships are so important to your psyche, they are likely to be reflected in how you project your personality. Because people and relationships are important to you, you often appear to others to be a “people person.” Because you define yourself so strongly by what you accept and reject, you may appear to others to be an individual of taste. Often this may be reflected in your cultivation of a beautiful or handsome appearance. With Venus in the 1st House, the relationship between the reality of self and its appearance in the world plays a central role in your psyche and this dynamic is key to interpreting the symbolic meaning of Venus in the 1st House.

Insecurities

Having Venus in the 1st House, if you have not found your own internal value system you will have no concept of your own identity. You only gain validity for your sense of self-hood from the reactions of others around you. Therefore, relationships occupy an overly critical place in your life. With Venus in the 1st House, appearances, meaning your own appearance in particular, are everything. The appearance that you project, the taste that you portray and who you are seen with determine your self-worth. Your opinion of yourself is determined only by what others think of you. If you are criticized, or worse – ridiculed – you are shattered and humiliated. You have nothing firm of your own to grab onto.

Evaluation Focus

With Venus in the 1st House, the self is the ultimate reference point for you. For you, judgment and taste are self-defining. You are known to yourself and others by the decisions you make and by your likes and dislikes. It may be very difficult for you to develop an objective point of view.

Having Venus in the 1st House, the self may also become an object of evaluation, as well as the subjective evaluator. There is a danger that you may be overly self-critical and may have problems liking yourself. In fact, whether you like yourself, to what extent, why and how may be an important issue for you to resolve.

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Article referenced from:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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