Venus in Pisces in the Fourth House

The placement of Venus in Pisces indicates a need for universality in your relationships and your value system. However, this ideal of universality is a difficult concept to actualize and, in practice, it is often manifested as ambiguity or confusion. Thus, you often feel a need for flexibility and the removal of boundaries or definition in your relationships or with respect to values. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Pisces are a result of your need to return to a feeling of oneness or undifferentiatedness.

The Venus in Pisces placement is generally conducive, although there are some inherent tensions present in the placement. This is symbolized by the natural sextile between Pisces and Venus-ruled Taurus, combined with the natural quincunx between Pisces and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Pisces is the Mutable Water sign. Pisces’ watery nature is compatible with the softness and passivity associated with Venus. The Venusian energy symbolically diffuses to the maximum extent through the Piscean medium of changeable water. If your character is sufficiently imbued with substance, it is the positive qualities associated with Venus that are allowed to envelope you and those around you. If there is nothing to support the Venusian energy, however, then it is diluted and loses itself in an ocean of chaos.

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

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in Pisces, if you are insecure, you try to bolster your ego and validate your selfhood through your relationships. Your ego feels as if it will be overwhelmed by the universal energy to which it is constantly being exposed. Desperately, you seek the approval and acceptance of others, to be included in their sphere of relationship and, thus, given some identity. Therefore, with Venus in Pisces, you give yourself indiscriminately in relationships of whatever depth or permanence. Making yourself so vulnerable, you are often being hurt by others and constantly at risk of harm. To protect yourself from your own vulnerability, you may adopt a variety of negative defense mechanisms.  Frightened at losing all sense of self, you may become consumed with ensuring that your own needs are met within a relationship in order to assure yourself that your selfhood still exists.

Venus in the 4th House:

Having Venus in the 4th House may suggest some social introversion or withdrawal, the qualities of stability and contentment that you may possess can compensate for any lack of excitement in your life. Placed in the house ruled by the Moon, the emotional qualities associated with Venus are brought out in your tastes, values and relationships. With Venus in the 4th House, in order for you to nurture and enjoy your relationships and the things that you like, you may require a somewhat sheltered and peaceful environment. Therefore, you tend to concentrate your affections within the close confines of your family.

With Venus in the 4th House, you tend to look for values that are deep-rooted and stable. Stability and a sense of rootedness often seem to provide the emotional environment that allows you to feel comfortable in opening up your receptivity and giving and receiving affection from others. You may also be inwardly receptive to your own emotional and psychic inner life.

While you may enjoy a richness of experience, both inwardly and within your family, you may also seem limited in your range of experience. As an individual with Venus in the 4th House, you may find that your tastes, attitudes and relationships are highly conditioned by your upbringing and family influences. You may not care about and, therefore, not experience much of the wider world outside your circle of everyday domestic life. With Venus in the 4th House, what you may find rich and satisfying, others may consider boring. You, too, may become bored and dissatisfied with the range of your sensate and social experience if you there are other forces that are pulling you beyond these boundaries.

Insecurities

With Venus in the 4th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will fear to contact what is truly Real, or anything that is beyond your normal experience–for such contacts and relationships may bring pain and rejection. You protect yourself against what might be distasteful and disquieting by confining yourself within the familiar and predictable. Your tastes and judgments are all predetermined and do not deviate from what is expected of you by your parents and family.

Having Venus in the 4th House, you confine your relationships and much of your life within the boundaries of family life and everyday existence. In this, you live happily, seemingly, though this is the ignorance of bliss. You are actually quite vulnerable to disruptions that shake your known and predictable world. You judge harshly anything that is beyond that world, and therefore a threat.

Evaluation Focus

As an individual with Venus in the 4th House, it is not unusual for you to first evaluate your experience through the lens of family background, conditioning and expectations. Your tastes and opinions are not likely to be very different from your family’s or from those around you. You are also likely to judge things in terms of whether they contribute positively to family harmony and a smoothly-running domestic life. However, having Venus in the 4th House, you may be consumed with wanting to determine the underlying properties of things. You evaluate them, not on the basis of surface characteristics, but on what is at the bottom of a phenomenon. You may be attracted to basic values, or you may be a restless as you realize that those values that appear to be valid on the surface are not necessarily true.

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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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