Venus in Leo in the Eleventh House

The placement of Venus in Leo indicates that you have a need to be appreciated within your relationships and this need is also reflected in the way in which you formulate your value system. This sometimes manifests as a need to be dominant (or have your authority acknowledged) in a relationship. With Venus in Leo, your need to be appreciated and noticed also may manifest in your adopting values that are in harmony with creativity, thus allowing you the scope to be dramatic and draw attention to yourself. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Leo are a result of your need to value creativity and feel respected and appreciated in your relationships.

Venus’ placement in Leo is especially ambivalent, as is symbolized by the natural square between Leo and Venus-ruled Taurus combined with the natural sextile between Leo and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Leo is the Fixed Fire sign. Venus is symbolically energized by Leo’s fire, but this fire energy may also be discomforting for the naturally passive nature associated with Venus. Regarding relationships with Venus in Leo, on the one hand, you are likely to enjoy being “on display” to others, and particularly to your partner. On the other hand, the inherent self-centeredness often associated with Leo sometimes makes sharing a relationship difficult. Venus is generally comfortable with the stable, fixed nature of Leo, since this is supportive of relationship. However, when Leo’s fire energy turns this fixity to active stubbornness, the result is not likely to be positive.

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

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in Leo, if you are insecure within yourself, you are likely to have a fear of being unnoticed and unappreciated. This often leads you to try too hard to be liked by others. Domineering relationships may be the result. You may either dominate your partner to bolster your own security – forcing him or her to acknowledge you – or in your insecurity and lack of self-esteem you may attract someone who will dominate you. With Venus in Leo, you may also settle for someone who is “below your level” in your desperation to enter a relationship in which you are appreciated and acknowledged to be superior.

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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