Venus sign calculator

Venus is the planet astrologers read for affection, pleasure and taste: how you show love, what you find beautiful, what you want a relationship to feel like, and what you give your attention to purely for the joy of it. Your Venus sign is simply the sign Venus occupied at your birth. It says less about who you fall for than about how you behave when you do.

It is often read beside your Mars sign, which describes desire and pursuit. When two charts are compared, the contacts between one person's Venus and the other person's planets are among the first things astrologers look for.

Seen from Earth, Venus never strays more than about 47 degrees from the Sun, so your Venus sign is always your Sun sign or one of the two signs either side of it. Across births from 1930 to 2010, about a quarter have Venus in the Sun sign, nearly six in ten have it one sign away, and fewer than one in five have it two signs away. A Gemini can have Venus in Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer or Leo, and never in Sagittarius.

That closeness is why your result names your Sun sign too. A Venus in the same sign as the Sun tends to make what you love part of how you see yourself; a Venus a sign or two away brings a different taste into the picture.

Venus usually spends three and a half to four and a half weeks in a sign, and changes sign on only about one day in thirty, so for most people the birth date settles it. If Venus changed sign on your birth date, the calculator shows both signs and the local time of the change, and your birth time decides.

About every nineteen months Venus appears to move backwards through the zodiac for around six weeks, and in those years it can stay in one sign for up to four months. About seven births in a hundred have Venus retrograde, and your answer says whether yours was. Astrologers tend to read it as affection that is slower to show and more reflective, with a liking for the familiar over the new.

Venus is placed where it appeared from Earth at the moment of your birth, allowing for the minutes its light took to reach us. Your birth time is first turned into Universal Time using the clock history of your birthplace; astronomy-engine, an open-source ephemeris, gives the position, which is set in the tropical zodiac and matches the Swiss Ephemeris to about an arcminute. With no birth time, the calculator looks at Venus at the first and last minute of your birth date and calls the sign settled only if it held all day. For the house Venus sits in and the aspects it forms, open your whole chart.