Venus in Capricorn in the 12th House

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Venus in Capricorn in the Twelfth House

Venus in Capricorn in 12th House
Venus in Capricorn in 12th House

The placement of Venus in Capricorn indicates that you have a need for practicality in your relationships and your value system. This often manifests as an inherent need to measure your relationship(s) against a set of explicit or implicit goals. With Venus in Capricorn, your values tend to be pragmatic and utilitarian, since these, too, are affected by the goal-orientedness associated with Capricorn. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Capricorn are a result of your need for accomplishment and feeling successful in your relationships and in the outcomes that are the result of your value system.

Venus’ placement in Capricorn is complex, as symbolized by the natural square between Capricorn and Venus-ruled Libra in combination with the natural trine between Capricorn and Taurus, which is also ruled by Venus. Capricorn is the Cardinal Earth sign. The Saturnian earth nature of Capricorn symbolically restricts and inhibits the flowing social energy associated with Venus. It also tends to rigidify the fluidity necessary for the carrying out of the evaluative functions symbolized by Venus. However, the stability that the Capricorn energy brings is beneficial to those functions associated with Venus. Because Capricorn has a more natural affinity with the Taurus energy than with Libra, the value-forming and appreciating functions symbolized by Venus tend to be more pronounced in your psyche and personality than is the case for most people, while the relationship function is expressed with more difficulty.

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

Insecurities

Having Venus in Capricorn, if you are insecure in yourself, you will usually fear that you will be unsuccessful in your relationship(s). In trying to protect yourself from failure, your inclination is toward the cautious and safe approach. With Venus in Capricorn, you have an inherent lack of sensitivity and understanding of the emotional and intangible aspects of personal relationships. Nor are you willing to risk failure by trying to develop emotional depth in your relationship(s). You, therefore are inclined to treat others exclusively on the practical and objective level with which you are familiar.  At the extreme, you withdraw from close relationships altogether. Thus, your relationships and your entire value system become sterile and dry.

Venus in the 12th House:

There is often a natural tension represented by Venus in the 12th House between the quality of selfhood that is a necessary component of both relationship and evaluation and your conscious or unconscious focus on losing your selfhood.  Having Venus in the 12th House, you must learn to balance the legitimate interests of the self with your desire to attain selflessness if you are to be successful in your relationships and if you are to authenticate your values. You must realize, at some level, that the ego – though it be an illusion – is a necessary tool for functioning within the illusion of existence.

With Venus in the 12th House, you are capable of sensitive and compassionate behavior in relationships, true concern for others, a perception from a higher perspective and the adoption of a value system that is based upon selfless service to others. While engaging in compassionate social interaction, it is often the case that you feel the need to withdraw temporarily and focus within yourself.  This serves to recharge you, provide a needed rest and preserve the balance that you have established.  You are prone to take the needs of others into consideration before your own needs are met.

As an individual with Venus in the 12th House, you evaluate your situation and that of others from a selfless and sensitive perspective and are ever ready to respond with empathy and care. For this reason, it is generally essential that you spend some time alone with yourself,  or you risk burn-out. With Venus in the 12th House, if your attitude and assumptions are not in balance, the drain upon your psychic resources that others impose generally will debilitate you in some manner. Subconsciously, you may adopt defense mechanisms against this debilitation and these mechanisms themselves are likely to be negative. You may experience much pain and suffering in the world, either directly or in empathy with others. This experience generally has a marked effect on you, either in a positive or a negative direction.

Insecurities

Having Venus in the 12th House, you have no idea of an authentic self and you are, therefore, at the mercy of each and every pull from without. You may think that you give to others, but in reality either they take until you have nothing left or you “give” to feed your ego and to try to establish some identity as a “selfless soul” of “superior character.”

As an individual with Venus in the 12th House, whatever defense mechanisms your subconscious may try to insert in order to protect the ego, you are more likely to be taken advantage of. Thus, you may engage in a series of self-destructive relationships in which your partner takes from you and leaves you in pain. You may make choices that are extremely poor and lead down a self-destructive path. With Venus in the 12th House, you are often attracted to that which will be your own undoing. Often, this attraction is bound up with some illusion or fantasy.  Frequently, you are deceived. Having been deceived so often, sometimes, in self-defense, you become the deceiver and exploiter yourself.

Evaluation Focus

With Venus in the 12th House, your tendency is to evaluate people, things and situations from a selfless point of view. Sometimes, you may have no clear idea about your own values, but you attempt to please others by adopting their tastes and values. If who are able to define your values, generally you will find that you rank highly such qualities as generosity, service to others, contemplation, sincerity and sensitivity. However, if you have not examined your values, you may remain confused. You may be subject to deception and being led astray or may find yourself living in an illusion, unable to distinguish the real from the false. Sometimes, your values and choices may be borne out of your experience of suffering.

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