Venus in Gemini in the Eleventh House

The placement of Venus in Gemini indicates that you have a need for flexibility and freedom, both within your relationships and in the way in which you formulate your value system. This sometimes manifests as an ambivalent attitude toward commitment. This placement also symbolizes an approach to those functions symbolized by Venus that is mental in nature. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Gemini are a result of your need for freedom from restraint in relationships and in the operation of a value system, as well as the mental energy with which you engage these areas of life.

With Venus in Gemini, Gemini is the Mutable Air sign and here the Venusian energies symbolically become light and free in Gemini’s changeable air environment. However, this may not be conducive to building stable relationships and value systems. The basic harmony inherent in the Venus in Gemini placement is symbolized by the natural trine between Gemini and Venus-ruled Libra, while the tension is symbolized by the conflict between the free-moving air of Gemini and the stable and enduring qualities associated with Taurus, which is also ruled by Venus. With Venus in Gemini, the relationship functions symbolized by Venus tend to be more pronounced in your psyche and personality than is the case for most people.

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

Insecurities

Having Venus in Gemini, you need to feel a sense of freedom and you fear that the loss of your freedom will deprive you of a central value upon which you have based the validity of your selfhood. You are too insecure in your selfhood to give yourself away to another. Driven by a fear that commitment to a single relationship will fatally limit your freedom to bond with anyone at any time, with Venus in Gemini, you tend to stay aloof from all commitments as a defense mechanism and avoid depth in a relationship. If anyone asks you to commit to a relationship (or to a permanent set of values of any sort) or tries to become too deep and intimate with you, you are likely to feel threatened and push them away.

Venus in the 11th House:

As with many of the Venus house placements, Venus in the 11th House is harmoniously placed with challenging potential. The 11th House is in natural trine to the Venus-ruled 7th House, and thus the relationship functions symbolized by Venus are easy and accentuated. The 11th House is square to the 2nd house, however, which is also ruled by Venus. Here, the more personal-oriented evaluative functions of Venus may come into conflict with the socially oriented 11th House. For instance, having Venus in the 11th House, you may have a generous and humanitarian impulse, but with nagging doubts about the wisdom of giving too much. For the most part, however, Venus is comfortable with this placement.

Having Venus in the 11th House, you may use relationships as a vehicle whereby you connect with society and your social purpose. Your life partner relationship(s) may have a strong flavor of social interaction. There may also be a strong sense of concern for the future present in your relationships. Your relationships are likely to bring change into your life, rather than being a force for preserving the status quo. Your tastes and attachments are likely to be affected by the group identity that you adopt. With Venus in the 11th House, there is a danger that you will not own enough of your identity to establish preferences that truly reflect your character. One challenge with Venus in the 11th House is to project your individuality, in a balanced fashion, through the expression of taste and preference.

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in the 11th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will likely fail to develop a sense of your own individuality in the context of the group and society, and your ego will be dominated by the group-ego. In this way, you protect your ego from the risk of exposure. Your relationship is to the group, and your personal, life partner relationship(s) is likely to be role dominated, with the primary emphasis of the relationship being its societal function (married couples with children are likely to call each other “mommy” and “daddy”). Having Venus in the 11th House, your tastes are also completely formed by the group, and you are likely to severely judge opinions and lifestyles that are outside of the group.

Evaluation Focus

With Venus in the 11th House, you generally judge things according to a group standard or in terms of how it affects your relationship to the group. You may ask not “is this good/pleasing for me?” but “is this good/pleasing for society?” or “is this good/pleasing for my group?” You tend to have a broader frame of reference for your evaluative function than simply the personal. Having Venus in the 11th House, you may also have a tendency for your judgment to be influenced by the group of which you are a part. You may also be attracted to group activities, humanitarian endeavors or projects to benefit society and you are likely to value such things highly. You may hold group or social values in higher regard than personal values and will are likely to have a value system that is centered around the good of the whole.

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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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