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Venus ✧

Welcome to my page dedicated to Venus! Here you will find information about Venus in a planetary magic sense, along with her Orphic Hymn.

Disclaimer: The notes on this page are an amalgation of notes from books and blogs, some of which are straight up copy/pasted without proper citation. Sources are listed at the bottom of each page. Information may or may not be accurate.
Venus goes through all of the signs approximately every 225 days, spending approximately 23-60 days in each sign.

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NASA image of Venus

Venus Keyword Correspondences and Associations

Venus rotates in the opposite direction compared to the other planets so as a result, the Venusian day (243 Earth days) is longer than the Venusian year (225 Earth days). From Venus, the Sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east. This fact about the Venusian day and year is interesting since Venus is associated with love and “love makes time stand still.” Since love is frequently a creative inspiration, art, creativity and pleasure is connected to Venus. Another branch off of love is that of sex and sensuality. But romantic or sexual love is not the only love associated to Venus, all kinds of love are attributed to Venus; so friendship and as an extension sociability are also related to Venus.

Venus is also linked with money and resources and can have a positive impact on your finances.

The negative associations of Venus include jealousy, and lasciviousness, and other negative aspects associated with attraction, love, and sexuality. Venus has an indulgent, vain, and lazy side, so extravagance can be problematic with this planetary energy.

NASA closeup image of Venus

Venus in the Chart

For people who are attracted to women, Venus in their chart represents their ideal lover. For people who are not attracted to women, Venus represents the image of themselves and their own femininity. Its position in your chart shows how you give and receive love, what you want and value in relationships, and how you attract other people to you. Someone whose Venus makes a positive contact with yours is likely to engender affectionate feelings in you. Strong astrological connections involving this planet usually exist between lovers and spouses, but they’re also important in business partnerships since Venus promotes harmony, cooperation, and ease.

Venus is also known as the morning star as it is the last to be seen before dawn and as the evening star as it is the first to be seen in the evening. It is also known as the Lesser Benefic, focusing good vibrations into any area it touches and giving it a rosy glow.

The Venusian Symbol

planetary symbol for venus

The symbol of Venus incorporates the circle representing the Sun and the cross representing the Earth. So the life essence is dominating the physical matters. That is, Venus is a force of generation and attraction, of life dominating the physical world.

Venusian Magic

Venus beautifies, arouses, or seduces what it touches.

Venus lends its power to magic involving relationships of all kinds, professional as well as personal. Venus can also help you make a good impression on others and attract those who benefit you socially and/or financially. Tap into the energy of Venus if you are looking for a job or are looking for support for a business venture, and also when you’re doing prosperity magic.

Venus will help you become compassionate and form partnerships.

Planetary Square for Venus

Magical number squares are mathematical objects composed of a square grid with equal sized rows and columns that are filled with as many consecutive natural numbers (starting with 1) that it takes to fill. Each row and column sums to the same number. Frequently, the diagonals do as well.

Venus's square is 7x7 and has the natural numbers 1 through 49 (7²).

The rows, columns, and diagonals all add up to 175 and the entire square sums to 1225.

To fill Venus's square, place the 1 directly below the center then fill in a mostly downward diagonal pattern.

Some observations: Consecutive numbers go in neighboring columns in a downward direction until it meets the bottom, EXCEPT when it's a multiple of 7 (7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42). The numbers directly after each multiple of 7 (8, 15, 22, 29, 36, 43) are in the same column, but then continue filling diagonally in a downward direction until the next multiple of 7.

static image of Venus's planetary square
gif of Venus's planetary square being filled starting with 1

Ways to Connect with Venus

  • Use botanicals associated with Venus, such as apples, pears, oranges, red roses, strawberries, vanilla, and poppy
  • Use roses or rose petals in spells
  • Add gemstones associated with Venus to talismans, such as copper, emerald, jade (green, pink, white), rose quartz, green jasper, or serpentine
  • Carve the astrological symbol for Venus on a green, pink, yellow, white, red, or purple colored candle and burn it in a spell
  • Draw the symbol on paper and put it in a talisman
  • Divine with tea or palms
  • Do spells on a Friday and/or on Venus's hours (check for retrogrades!)
  • Light incense with a scent associated to Venus such as vanilla, sandalwood, geranium, or spearmint
  • Create artwork for a magical purpose
  • Prepare a ritual meal for friends and loved ones

Orphic Hymn 54: To Venus [Aphrodite]

Heav'nly [Ourania], illustrious, laughter-loving queen, sea-born, night-loving, of an awful mien;
Crafty, from whom necessity [Ananke] first came, producing, nightly, all-connecting dame:
'Tis thine the world with harmony to join, for all things spring from thee, O pow'r divine.
The triple Fates [Moirai] are rul'd by thy decree, and all productions yield alike to thee:
Whate'er the heav'ns, encircling all contain, earth fruit-producing, and the stormy main,
Thy sway confesses, and obeys thy nod, awful attendant of the brumal God [Bakkhos]:
Goddess of marriage, charming to the sight, mother of Loves [Eortes], whom banquetings delight;
Source of persuasion [Peitho], secret, fav'ring queen, illustrious born, apparent and unseen:
Spousal, lupercal, and to men inclin'd, prolific, most-desir'd, life-giving., kind:
Great sceptre-bearer of the Gods, 'tis thine, mortals in necessary bands to join;
And ev'ry tribe of savage monsters dire in magic chains to bind, thro' mad desire.
Come, Cyprus-born, and to my pray'r incline, whether exalted in the heav'ns you shine,
Or pleas'd in Syria's temple to preside, or o'er th' Egyptian plains thy car to guide,
Fashion'd of gold; and near its sacred flood, fertile and fam'd to fix thy blest abode;
Or if rejoicing in the azure shores, near where the sea with foaming billows roars,
The circling choirs of mortals, thy delight, or beauteous nymphs, with eyes cerulean bright,
Pleas'd by the dusty banks renown'd of old, to drive thy rapid, two-yok'd car of gold;
Or if in Cyprus with thy mother fair, where married females praise thee ev'ry year,
And beauteous virgins in the chorus join, Adonis pure to sing and thee divine;
Come, all-attractive to my pray'r inclin'd, for thee, I call, with holy, reverent mind.

Venus Facts

  • Venus is the 3rd brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon.
  • Venus is the second planet from the sun.
  • Incredibly thick, reflective clouds of sulfuric acid cause the planet to shine so brightly.
  • Due to its runaway greenhouse effect, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system.
  • A Venusian day is 243 Earth days, 18 days longer than a Venusian year.
  • Venus spins backward compared to the other planets. From its surface, the Sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east.
  • Venus was thought to have a moon billions of years ago, but 10 million years after its formation, another huge impact reversed its spin direction and caused the moon to spiral inward until it collided with Venus.
  • Venus is the most spherical of all the planets.
NASA closeup image of Venus

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Page last updated: March 25, 2026