Venus in Aquarius in the 8th House

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Venus in Aquarius in the Eighth House

Venus in Aquarius in 8th House
Venus in Aquarius in 8th House

The placement of Venus in Aquarius indicates that you have a need for uniqueness and originality in your relationships and your value system. These are abstract concepts and pursuing these needs often leaves little room or inclination for emotion or the mundanely personal. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Aquarius are a result of your need to feel that you are a unique individual even when involved in a relationship. Having Venus in Aquarius, behavior and personality are also the result of your need to adopt a set of values that are independent, not conditioned by society’s expectations and reflective of your unique viewpoint.

The Venus in Aquarius placement is complex and contains inherent tensions.  This is symbolized by the natural square between Aquarius and Venus-ruled Taurus in combination with the natural trine between Aquarius and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Aquarius is the Fixed Air sign. While Aquarius’ airiness promotes social interaction, it is generally not at the personal level at which Venus operates.  Thus, with Venus in Aquarius, you need and want social interaction, but you may not have the full set of social skills to successfully engage in interpersonal relationships. Also, the fixed nature of the Aquarian character tends to inhibit the fluidity that is naturally inherent in the Venusian energy. This stiffness and rigidity also tends to impact your relationships and your values and perceptions.

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

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in Aquarius, in your insecurity, you are steadfastly committed to preserving your “independence” and individual “uniqueness” within your relationship(s) and as part of your value system.

Having Venus in Aquarius, you cannot understand the uniqueness of another, nor the needs of others for relationship “below” your level of self-abstraction. Your lack of understanding and appreciation for the personal causes you to become defensive in your relationship(s). This often manifests as an aloof or authoritarian attitude or a testy and suspicious nature. Also, in your conflict between the abstract and the personal, you sometimes develop a defense mechanism in which you are guarding the “higher good” against messy and imperfect “selfish” considerations of others.

Venus in the 8th House:

With Venus in the 8th House, your relationships tend to be close and exclusive – or if not exclusive, then intense. This intensity and desire for intimacy tends to affect your tastes and judgments, also. There is some danger that you become so intimate in your relationships that it leads to confusion. You can develop a lack of balance between intimacy and your responsibilities to the external world.  Having Venus in the 8th House, your desire for intimacy, emotional security and a very personal relationship affect,  and often improve, the quality of your relationship(s), unless these tendencies are  taken too far.

Having Venus in the 8th House, the tendency for withdrawal and inward intensity that the 8th House  represents should be digested and then reflected externally, (i.e., toward the  “other”), however, if you are to make the most positive use of this energy. As an individual with Venus in the 8th House, your task is to resolve the tension between your inward and outward pulls and between self-contemplation and recognition of the “other.” Whether these tensions are resolved constructively or allowed to manifest destructively will determine the quality of your relationships and your perceptual experience in the world. You can easily become withdrawn and self-absorbed, even within the context of your relationships. Or, your attraction to intimacy and the unseen can result in a richness of perception and relationship that is especially intense and rewarding.

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in the 8th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will look for fulfillment and pleasure from others, and particularly from the intimacies associated with close relationships.  Since you do not look for or find this pleasure from within yourself, and you are not in touch with your own values, you are dependent for your pleasure on what others give you. This may involve both sexual pleasure and the sharing of other resources, physical and emotional. Having Venus in the 8th House. in your dependency on others, you become a  slave to your partner’s will. Yet you also scheme to gain what you want from your partner(s), for this is the only thing that is important to you.

Evaluation Focus

With Venus in the 8th House, you tend to evaluate situations and things from the standpoint of how they may enhance your emotional security. If you are committed to a relationship, you may see things in terms of how that relationship is benefited and furthered. As you perceive things through the lens of your relationship, it may be the intimacies of your relationship that provide you with some of your most heightened experiences.

Having Venus in the 8th House, if you are dependent on a relationship, then you may evaluate life from a possessive or jealous point of view. However, if you are wise, you will conclude that your security is ultimately grounded in truth and authenticity. You are then more likely to be concerned with the authenticity of the thing or experience than with how it is likely to be of benefit to you.

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