Venus is a bright, shining star. She is called “Hanes,” Hesperus or the Evening Star when she appears after sunset, and Lucifer when she rises before the Sun at dawn. She completes her revolution in about a year. Venus is a nocturnal planet, cold and moist in nature; she is the Lesser Benefic, the author of pleasure, mirth, and jollity.
Venus generally gives a handsome, comely, medium stature; a plump, rounded visage; a lovely, clear complexion; full eyes—dark, hazel, or black; hair fair, smooth, and light brown; cherry-red lips and a neat, well-formed mouth. The body is delightful in all parts, finely proportioned, and the face is full of amorous allure.
When Venus is well dignified, the native is merry and cheerful, loving pleasures; clean and neat in apparel, always spruce and well turned out; often engaged in love matters; warm and zealous in affection; free from mistrust or suspicion—truly a virtuous person, whether man or woman.
If Venus is ill dignified, the native is given to incestuous courses, riot, and lewdness; careless of faith, credit, or reputation; a mere spendthrift; a haunter of taverns and alehouses and noisy company; lazy, prattling, a busybody; atheistical and immodest.
All women—maids, wives, and widows—belong to Venus in general. Of professions, she signifies silk-men, mercers, musicians, linen-drapers, painters, embroiderers, jewellers, perfumers, players (actors), lapidaries, engravers, sempsters (seamstresses), choristers, limners and picture-drawers, upholsterers, glovers, and exchange-men—and all who sell or deal in wares that adorn and beautify women.
Herbs and Plants of Venus
Ale-hoof (ground-ivy), alder tree, apple tree, stinking orach (flinking arrach), archangel, beans, lady’s bedstraw, birch tree, bishop’s-weed, blites, bugle, burdock, cherry tree, chickweed, cich-pease (chickpeas), clary, cock’s-head, coltsfoot, cowslips, daisies, devil’s-bit, elder, eringo, feverfew, figwort, filipendula, foxgloves, golden-rod, gromwell, groundsel, herb-robert, herb-true-love, kidney-wort, lady’s mantle, mallows, mercury, mints, motherwort, mugwort, nep, parsnip, peach tree, pear tree, pennyroyal, periwinkle, plantain, plum tree, primroses, ragwort, rocket, Damask roses, wood-sage, sanicle, self-heal, soapwort, sorrel, sow-thistles, spignel, strawberries, garden tansy, wild tansy, teasels, vervain, vine, violets, wheat, Yazion.
These are noted for the astrological physician, who—judging the cause of disease from the nativity—may know the remedies that best accord with the virtue of Venus.
Venus in the Houses of Other Planets
In the Houses of Saturn (Capricorn or Aquarius)
Whether by day or night, and however disposed, Venus in Capricorn or Aquarius shows a native drawn to disreputable attachments—often pursuing unsuitable partners and winning them easily. It also indicates that the first spouse is likely to predecease the native.
In the Houses of Jupiter (Sagittarius or Pisces)
With Venus in Sagittarius or Pisces in a nocturnal nativity, the native suffers unjust hatred or estrangement from his parents, yet grows wealthy through noble women—by marriage alliances, sometimes multiple, and by benefits from their fathers or grandfathers. In a diurnal nativity the same promises stand, though to a lesser degree.
In the Houses of Mars (Aries or Scorpio)
With Venus in Aries or Scorpio, by day or night, the native is bitter toward women and avoids decent company, yet keeps ill associations and suffers loss thereby. He rarely marries; if he does, it is with great difficulty, bringing strife and contention, and he is jealous of his wife—so much so that, in extremes, he may be the cause of her death.
In the House of the Sun (Leo)
With Venus in Leo, regardless of sect, the native is inflamed with desire, inclined to luxury and sexual excess, and liable to immoral and exploitative conduct.
In Her Own Houses (Taurus or Libra)
When Venus is in Taurus or Libra, whatever the nativity, the native pursues lewd attachments, is promiscuous, fond of courtesans, and becomes openly defamed and notorious for such conduct.
In the Houses of Mercury (Gemini or Virgo)
With Venus in Gemini or Virgo in a diurnal, well-disposed chart, the native delights in painting (limning) and authorship, fashions ornaments and finery for women, deals in alluring wares, and—by smooth hypocrisy—ingratiates himself with religious men, yet remains much given to luxury. In a nocturnal, ill-disposed nativity, the good things mentioned above fail, and the worse takes its place.
In the House of the Moon (Cancer)
With Venus in Cancer, the native is inconstant, quickly changing places, pursuits, and affections; sensually inclined, greedy of gain, and shamelessly luxurious.
From the The Doctrine of Nativites and Horary Questions, JOHN GADBURY