Venus in Sagittarius in the Tenth House

The placement of Venus in Sagittarius indicates that you have a need for expansiveness and understanding in your relationships. Your judgments and value system are likely to be based on concepts in which you have come to believe. The self-reinforcing aspect of this dynamic often results in strongly held beliefs and opinions. On the other hand, with Venus in Sagittarius, your need to be able to explore and understand often manifests as a need for “room” and freedom in your relationship(s). Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Sagittarius are a result of your need to be able to explore the world and yourself through and within your relationships and value system.

The Venus in Sagittarius placement is generally harmonious, as symbolized by the natural sextile between Sagittarius and Venus-ruled Libra. However, the natural quincunx between Sagittarius and Taurus, which is also ruled by Venus, suggests that there are some inherent tensions in this placement. These tensions generally are associated with issues involving conflict between the Sagittarian need for quest and the stability that is desired in relationships and value systems. Sagittarius is the Mutable Fire sign. The Venusian functions are symbolically amplified in Sagittarius’s changeable fire energy. This freedom, plus the beneficent influence associated with Jupiter’s rulership of Sagittarius, may allow the Venus-symbolized functions to find greater fulfillment.

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

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in Sagittarius, you compensate for your own inner insecurity by seeking expansiveness in your relationships. The more friends you have or, if your mores and opportunity allow, the more relationships you explore, the more you can feel good about yourself and convince yourself of your own self-worth. This may cause you to overextend yourself in this arena, leading to a plethora of superficial relationships. Having Venus in Sagittarius, you can also develop a “bigger is better” attitude. This is another way for you to compensate for feelings of insecurity and inferiority. You do this by identifying with big and important things, thus aggrandizing yourself through association. This attitude of valuing what is grand can also lead to poor judgments that result in excess.

Venus in the 10th House:

The placement of Venus in the 10th House suggests the importance and value that you place on accomplishment and success and your potential willingness to sublimate or even sacrifice the quality of your relationship(s) in order to achieve your goals. While the Venus in the 10th House placement resonates to a 7th-10th House conflict, the rewards that you receive by achieving success – the ability to possess and  enjoy what you like – resonates to the 2nd-10th House trine. Thus, you are likely to be driven by what you value to succeed in order to obtain what you like.

However, having Venus in the 10th House, what you value is also likely to be influenced by your focus on achievement and success. If you are predisposed by other factors to be driven toward success, then you are likely to be drawn toward those things that are symbolic of success, as well as developing values that enhance your chances of achieving success. If, however, your basic values lie in other directions than in accomplishment, status attainment and/or career service, these values could shape your ideas about success instead. Thus, with Venus in the 10th House, the relative strength of your pull toward what is represented by the 10th House or that which is symbolized by Venus should determine the extent to which one overpowers and dominates the other. If values such as enjoyment of what one likes, companionship and relationship or moral goodness are strong, this may diminish your drive toward success, as it is conceived materialistically.

Having Venus in the 10th House, this may be a positive or a negative development and may also signify some internal conflict. Even if the super-ego sanctioned concept of success is not emphasized, however, there is still likely to be a drive to achieve your own values (enjoyment, relationship, goodness, etc.). In turn, the interplay between values and success orientation are likely to shape the way that you conceive of and actualize your relationships.

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in the 10th House, because you judge everything using the touchstone of its status and acclaimed success, you feel that your own relationships and how you are seen by others is determined by your own status, success and accomplishments. Feeling this pressure to succeed, you judge others by how much they will contribute to your own success and status.

With Venus in the 10th House, your values and your tastes, also, are crafted to enhance your status and to create an image of success and accomplishment. You become disturbed if you are associated with anything or anyone who does not fit this image. You believe that what is important is winning, but it is actually not the goal itself that you ultimately consider to be important, but how your winning will enhance your own image.

Having Venus in the 10th House, your true self-esteem is low and needs to be protected, since there is no authentic self behind the facade of status and success. If you do not enjoy success and status, you must grasp for it and/or manufacture it for yourself. If you cannot see yourself as successful, or you perceive that others view you as a failure, you may become discouraged, aimless, display poor judgment and/or become self-pitying.

Evaluation Focus

As an individual with Venus in the 10th House, you tend to make evaluations on a practical basis of the likelihood that something will succeed or assist you in reaching your goals. You are likely to place a high value on success and accomplishment and to be attracted to those things that are success-oriented. You generally like achievement and may dislike people or things that you associate with failure or lack of motivation. To the extent that you have traits of selflessness, you may enjoy accomplishing things that benefit society. You may, therefore, choose a career that can be described as people-oriented. You may also choose a career in which your talents of good taste and judgment can be employed successfully.

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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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