Venus in Capricorn in the Third House

The placement of Venus in Capricorn indicates that you have a need for practicality in your relationships and your value system. This often manifests as an inherent need to measure your relationship(s) against a set of explicit or implicit goals. With Venus in Capricorn, your values tend to be pragmatic and utilitarian, since these, too, are affected by the goal-orientedness associated with Capricorn. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Capricorn are a result of your need for accomplishment and feeling successful in your relationships and in the outcomes that are the result of your value system.

Venus’ placement in Capricorn is complex, as symbolized by the natural square between Capricorn and Venus-ruled Libra in combination with the natural trine between Capricorn and Taurus, which is also ruled by Venus. Capricorn is the Cardinal Earth sign. The Saturnian earth nature of Capricorn symbolically restricts and inhibits the flowing social energy associated with Venus. It also tends to rigidify the fluidity necessary for the carrying out of the evaluative functions symbolized by Venus. However, the stability that the Capricorn energy brings is beneficial to those functions associated with Venus. Because Capricorn has a more natural affinity with the Taurus energy than with Libra, the value-forming and appreciating functions symbolized by Venus tend to be more pronounced in your psyche and personality than is the case for most people, while the relationship function is expressed with more difficulty.

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

Insecurities

Having Venus in Capricorn, if you are insecure in yourself, you will usually fear that you will be unsuccessful in your relationship(s). In trying to protect yourself from failure, your inclination is toward the cautious and safe approach. With Venus in Capricorn, you have an inherent lack of sensitivity and understanding of the emotional and intangible aspects of personal relationships. Nor are you willing to risk failure by trying to develop emotional depth in your relationship(s). You, therefore are inclined to treat others exclusively on the practical and objective level with which you are familiar.  At the extreme, you withdraw from close relationships altogether. Thus, your relationships and your entire value system become sterile and dry.

Venus in the 3rd House:

The function symbolized by Venus of evaluating perceptions and sensations is likely to be heightened with Venus in the 3rd House. You are likely to be particularly sensitive to your immediate surroundings and very much aware of what is around you. As an individual with Venus in the 3rd House, you may have strong or definite reactions to people and things in your environment, as you are likely to immediately judge whether something is good or pleasing as soon as its impression is received.

The emphasis suggested by Venus in the 3rd House is on the here and now and your interaction with and reaction to what is immediately occurring. You often may want to learn about your world by experiencing it, absorbing its impressions, taking it all in and then judging its worth. You may see much beauty in the world around you. Your focus is more likely to be external and you may not be given much to reflection or reevaluation. Once you has experienced and tasted a thing, you are often ready to move on to the next experience.

Insecurities

With Venus in the 3rd House, everything that you perceive is the subject of your judgment. If you are inwardly insecure, you are afraid of pain and you crave that which is pleasant to the senses. Therefore, your mind is always thinking: this will give me pleasure/this will give me pain/I like this/I do not like that. You feel that you should only have pleasure. To suffer is not to live. To suffer is to bear punishment and you would rather not consider (consciously or subconsciously) that you have done things that have produced suffering. Thus, having Venus in the 3rd House, when suffering comes upon you, you become depressed or you want to run away and escape your pain. You wish to run toward those sensual pleasures that will assuage your pain. But, since your experience of what is attractive and what is distasteful is immediate and ever-present, you are usually either fearing and avoiding what is unpleasant or you are blinding yourself from the reality of your pain.

Evaluation Focus

As an individual with Venus in the 3rd House, you tend to judge things immediately and based on first impressions. This means that you are likely to evaluate a thing or circumstance according to whatever how it presents itself to you on the surface. It may be difficult for you to look beyond what you immediately perceive and to take into consideration what has gone before or what may come or whatever is not evident. With Venus in the 3rd House, your natural mindset with respect to your immediate environment is one of perception and evaluation.  This can mean that the richness of your sensual experience is enhanced but it may also result in you being very judgmental and critical.

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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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