Venus in Cancer in the Seventh House

The placement of Venus in Cancer indicates that you have a need for nurturing and for an emotional outlet, both within your relationships and in the way in which you formulate your value system. This sometimes manifests as a protective or defensive attitude, if you feel threatened or if you have too much sensitivity. Venus in Cancer symbolizes an emotional approach to those functions symbolized by Venus. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Cancer are a result of your need to feel cared for and emotionally safe in your relationships and values.

Venus’ placement in Cancer is somewhat ambivalent, as is symbolized by the natural sextile between Cancer and Venus-ruled Taurus combined with the natural square between Cancer and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Cancer is the Cardinal Water sign. Venus is symbolically bathed in the waters of Cancer and emits a soft effulgent glow. This is conducive to harmony and a warm, emotional perception of well-being. However, when Cancer’s protective nature symbolically places a crab shell over the Venusian energies, relationships may be negatively affected.

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

Insecurities

Having Venus in Cancer, when you are insecure about your own emotional strength and your value system is very self-centered, you are likely to be plagued by a fear of getting hurt in relationships. Ever sensitive, this fear is so pervasive that it leads you to avoid commitment and reaching out to others. In essence, with Venus in Cancer, your insecurity surrounds you with an emotional and social wall. Your self-imposed isolation occurs at a great loss to you.

Venus in the 7th House:

Venus rules the 7th House and this placement gives it a favored position. Particularly the relationship function of Venus achieves an easy expression here. With Venus in the 7th House, you are likely to possess highly developed relationship skills. At the least, your relations with others will be of utmost importance to you. You not only place a high value on interpersonal relationships, but your entire value system tends to be people-oriented. Having Venus in the 7th House, you tend to evaluate whether a thing is pleasing or displeasing according to its effect on the quality of your relationships. This may cause you, at times, to lay too much emphasis on the opinions of others, deferring to their preferences for the sake of interpersonal harmony.

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in the 7th House, if your sense of self is insecure, you will go through relationships in a dependent mode. You will be drawn to interpersonal relationships so strongly that you will not be able to imagine an existence or a personality separate from the relationship. You almost cease to exist as an entity. With Venus in the 7th House, relationships then become just a crutch for your own insecurity. Your partner becomes a substitute for your own authenticity. You live totally within the relationship and, if the relationship is threatened, you feel threatened with disaster, because without your partner, there is nothing left of you.

 Evaluation Focus

Having Venus in the 7th House, your evaluative faculty is focused on the area of interpersonal relationships.  How things and events affect the relationships in which you are involved becomes the critical evaluative factor for you. You are also inclined to evaluate how the actions of others will affect you. You also have a tendency to be more active in making judgments concerning people and relationships than about other things. With Venus in the 7th House, you may be considered to be a shrewd judge of people or you may become overly critical and judgmental of others.

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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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