Venus

The planet of love, beauty, harmony, values, pleasure, and attraction. Venus governs what you find beautiful, how you relate in partnerships, your aesthetic sense, and your relationship with money and comfort. It rules both Taurus (sensual pleasure and material values) and Libra (partnerships and social harmony), is exalted in Pisces, in detriment in Aries and Scorpio, and in fall in Virgo. Venus's orbital period is 225 days, and it retrogrades approximately every 18 months for about 40 days — periods that often bring past relationships or old values back for reassessment. In esoteric astrology, Venus is the principle of divine love and the capacity to recognize beauty as a doorway to the sacred. Correspondences: copper, Friday, the kidneys, the color green, and The Empress card in the Major Arcana.