Vénus en Bélier

L’astre désarme, dévirilise ou féminise le signe : Hercule filant aux pieds d’Omphale ; c’est Henri II et Louis XV plus ou moins soumis et influencés par leur maîtresse officielle. Impulsivité des sentiments avec une sensibilité abrupte, aux pulsations de haute fréquence; prédisposition au « coup de foudre » ou instinct de conquête amoureuse pouvant donner le goût des aventures renouvelées. Sensibilité éruptive qui intensifie le feu de la passion ou conduit à l’amour-combat (Eve Lavallière, Ninon de Lenclos, Thérèse d’Avila). On connaît les vies amoureuses aventureuses de Charles VII sur la fin de sa vie et de Louis XV.

André Barbault, Traité Pratique d’Astrologie (1961)

Ardeur, amour semblable à un feu de paille. Impulsion dans les sympathies. Le sujet embrasse souvent une cause indigne. Dépenses extravagantes.

Affligée : Inconstance, passions subites, emballements inconsidérés.

Georges Antarès, Manuel Pratique d’Astrologie (1978)

VÉNUS DANS LE SIGNE DU BÉLIER vous confère des sentiments ardents et impulsifs. Vous avez des emballements et des sympathies spontanées et irréfléchies pour certaines personnes. En amour, vous êtes ardent, pressé d’aboutir à des résultats tangibles mais vos affections se consument aussi très rapidement, comme un feu de paille. Vos emballements intempestifs vous font parfois épouser une cause indigne. Vous aurez de nombreux succès sentimentaux et vous vous marierez « sur un coup de tête », et sans doute trop jeune. Quand il s’agit de vos plaisirs et de vos amours, vous êtes généreux et dépensier, voire même assez extravagant.

VÉNUS AFFLIGÉ DANS LE BELIER. Mêmes tendances mais votre vie risque d’être mouvementée par le fait que vous vous laissez facilement guider par vos passions.

Georges Antarès, L’art de l’interprétation en Astrologie (1992)

La planète se trouvant en détriment est toujours affligée. L’amour domine la personnalité, donne de l’ardeur, de la séduction, mais le manque de stabilité rend la vie amoureuse sujette à des ruptures. Les liaisons sont irréfléchies, les dépenses nombreuses. Tend à faire connaître des personnes plus jeunes que le natif, comme maîtresses. Affections qui passent rapidement.

Hadès, Manuel Complet d’Astrologie Scientifique & Traditionnelle (1967)

Alliée à Mars et au Soleil la sensualité rayonne ; elle est marquée par la facilité et la chance. Les natifs reçoivent facilement l’aide et la faveur d’autrui. Il existe néanmoins
une brièveté quant aux unions ; la fidélité, surtout dans les thèmes masculins, est assez rare. Le manque de persévérance du caractère est heureusement compensé par des dons artistiques (sculpture, musique, peinture) ou diplomatiques.

Dépenses, prodigalités, souvent faste et tendances à quelque gaspillage. La personnalité sait se rendre séduisante à l’égard d’autrui ; les chances financières sont fréquentes. Un certain manque de stabilité marque le mariage.

Ex. : Louis XV, «Le Bien-Aimé», avant l’impopularité (Vénus/Bélier carré Saturne en Cancer). Napoléon III, aidé par les femmes dans son accession au trône. On connaît l’influence de son épouse, Eugénie de Montijo, sur sa politique.

Hadès, Mars et Vénus ou les désirs et la chair (1983)

Santé : Eruptions, clous.

Caractère : Ardeur amoureuse pouvant donner lieu à des coups de tête et à des caprices. Audace vis-à-vis de l’autre sexe. De la générosité, de l’insouciance. Danger de séduction pour les nativités féminines. Dans l’ensemble, sujet assez sympathique mais un peu impulsif.

Destin : Souvent cette position indique un mariage précoce, même précipité et rarement heureux et durable. Le sujet est insouciant en matière financière et se laisse aller à des dépenses excessives. Propice pour accéder à des postes responsables, pour le succès dans une situation indépendante.

Henri-Joseph Gouchon, Dictionnaire Astrologique

Dans le Bélier, maison de Mars, elle rend le sujet amoureux, passionné, et cause souvent mésintelligence dans le mariage ; quand elle rencontre les aspects de Mars ou de Jupiter, elle indique le goût de la musique, des beaux-arts et succès dans ce genre d’études. Toutefois en raison de tes aspects, le sujet préférera la musique ou la peinture militaire ainsi que les couleurs éclatantes.

Julevno, Nouveau Traité d’Astrologie Pratique, Volume I (1934)

Instabilité, manque de volonté, caractère influençable, en perpétuelle anxiété ; mariage jeune après une désillusion sentimentale. Dans ce signe martien, Vénus est plus conquise
que conquérante.

Du 10e au 20e degré, le mariage ne répond pas aux désirs, la réalité au songe : on souffre en silence en espérant. Si la Lune est en mauvais aspect avec Mars, cela peut signifier veuvage et prédire une union double, la Lune dominant le nombre 2.

Du 20e au 30e degré, risque de séparation dans l’union par incompatibilité de goût et d’humeur. Une femme qui aura Vénus à cette place se plaindra d’un époux grossier et brutal, surtout si Mars envoie un méchant rayon.

Maurice Privat, L’Astrologie scientifique à la portée de tous (1935)

Le natif exprime son affection de façon directe, impulsive et enthousiaste.

C’est lorsqu’il se lance dans de nouvelles expériences qu’éclosent des goûts et des plaisirs influencés par les émotions ; dans une relation, c’est surtout la période initiale qui le séduit.

Le besoin d’intimité avec autrui risque d’être contrecarré par celui de s’imposer et par un tempérament exigeant ; de ce fait, il est parfois difficile de trouver l’intimité.

Il accorde de l’importance aux notions d’individualité, d’initiative et d’indépendance, aussi bien pour lui-même que pour les autres.

Il n’hésite pas à donner de sa personne et réagit promptement dès lors que les autres extériorisent vigoureusement leur énergie.

Stephen arroyo, Pratique d’interprétation du thème astral (1996)

Venus is in its detriment sign. Here is “self’ satisfaction. Where Venus loves she is apt to do much for the loved one, but in this position she is apt to love herself through the loved one. A tendency to touchiness and is apt to be easily offended due to self love. Apt to be inconsiderate of others without realizing it. This is a love springing into activity with ardor and enthusiasm, but not a sustaining and nurturing kind of caring. Passion and aggressiveness can be strong, thus Venus may lose her sweetness in this sign. The lesson needed with this placement is the ability to put oneself in the other fellow’s shoes. In spite of an impulsive approach to love, Venus in Aries is idealistic, and is always seeking outwardly that which can only be found within. There is a tendency to lack stability for Venus can tine quickly and change her mind often in the impulsive, restless sign of Aries.

Isabel M. Hickey, Astrology A Cosmic Science (1992)

Venus in Aries lends ardor to the affections of Venus by blending them with the fire of Mars who is ruler of Aries and for that reason it makes the person very ardent in the expression of affection. This usually leads to popularity especially among the opposite sex and often results in a hasty marriage, but that kind of love is not and cannot be lasting. Eventually the fire of passion burns out the love and marriages brought about by this position are then fruitful sources of domestic unhappiness. This position also inclines the person to be rash and impulsive whenever his sympathies are appealed to, so that he often helps an unworthy cause. Venus in Aries also inclines the person to general extravagance in his expenditures.

Max Heindel, Message of the Stars

Venus in this sign is in her detriment, and the position is not fortunate on the whole. There is evidence of the action of Mars in a certain rash impulsiveness in emotion, but the effect is rarely lasting or deep, even at the moment. There is a strong tendency to be what the French call cerebral, and also to what is really coldness, though it may manifest itself in fiery sparks.

It is only necessary to study the writings of Baudelaire and Swinburne, to see the attitude taken towards love and art by both of them, to understand this position of Venus. There is fierceness and glitter, but it is the fire of the lightning rather than that of the hearth. Among women we see the same quality, modified in certain ways, in Marguerite Steinheil and Queen Victoria. The former example needs no comment; the latter does. Victoria appeared a most domesticated person, but she was not; it was merely part of her ambitious policy to appear so.

In music one sees this fitful brilliancy of Venus represented by Tchaikovsky, and in literature by Bulwer-Lytton. The domestic affairs of the latter are well known too well known-and show in life what he also expressed in his novels. The tendency to lack stability is also manifest in Robespierre.

The trouble seems to be not that there is any lack of activity in Venus when she is in this sign, but that that activity is ill directed. She is not really fickle, but appears to be so because of her idealism. Reality failing to correspond to her mental conception, she becomes discontented. At the same time, it must be understood that no fulfillment of her desires, however nearly perfect, would satisfy her. It is in the contemplation of her wishes that she finds pleasure rather than in the enjoyment of them. She is extraordinarily imaginative; the merest hint excites her. She loves by sight, but touch disappoints her. When a person with this position of Venus discovers that Shelley quarreled with his wife or that Browning smoked a pipe or that Matthew Arnold wore whiskers, disappointment and disillusion follow. The poetry is spoiled for them, because it is not written by a creature who not only does not, and did not, but never could exist.

A remarkable example of the idealism of this position is afforded us by Abraham Lincoln, whose Venus trined his rising Neptune. This is an unsurpassable position for unfaltering devotion to an ideal. Lincoln was as conscious as any other man, as prescient as any seer could possibly have been, of what it meant in immediate agony to humanity to call for volunteers, as he did on that dramatic day which changed the whole history of the United States. But his high purpose was not overwhelmed by his great sympathy for the temporary sufferings of humanity. To him, right was right, and must be supported, no matter what the cost. Had Neptune been in Capricornus and Venus in Taurus, instead of in Sagittarius and Aries respectively, he would have thought far more of the material miseries which immediately threatened his country, and secession might have become an accomplished fact. It was his idealism which not only prevented the disruption of the Union, but implanted as a principle, which will never cease to be paramount in America, to do the right thing no matter what the .cost. One can readily understand how this attitude may be misinterpreted by the other party as lack of sympathy.

Venus in this sign is extraordinarily brilliant; she is the beauty of the sparks which are struck from the sword of Mars as he goes into battle, but she is robbed of all the importance which she has as tenderness and graciousness. She becomes the Amazon, panoplied and splendid, with no trace of the Hausftau. Baudelaire and Swinburne both have this position, and she is buttressed by the most formidable aspects; yet she fails to flower with that voluptuous graciousness that we find, for example, with Venus in Pisces. She is hard, brilliant, subtle, passionate, but not enduring and not inclined to please. She attacks and she repels, but all her operations are operations of assault and battery. She stirs to activity and quits. In women, this position is exceptionally unpleasant. She may be extraordinarily attractive but, even if she gratifies, will never satisfy. She excites and irritates, never calms and soothes. Even in art one perceives clearly how unsatisfactory-from the point of view of Venus herself, so to speak-is this position for her. When Swinburne wrote « Dolores »l he was trying to paint a picture of Venus in Libra or in Scorpio; he only succeeded in painting a Venus in Aries type.

We see the same thing in the writing of Baudelaire and the music of Tchaikovsky: It is always irritation without satisfaction; it is not Isis veiled, but Isis in armour. As indicated above, this position is very much better for men than it is for women, but it is good even for them only where Venus is a subsidiary figure, not only in the horoscope itself but in the general character of the native. Where his general pursuit in life is of the character of Venus it is bad, but it is not bad for such men as Lincoln and J. P. Morgan to have Venus under arms.

It may be of great value in the horoscope of any man of the more studious and serious sort not to have Venus flower too fully. We find her in this position in the horoscopes of such men as Emerson, Alexander Graham Bell, Dr. Quackenbos and the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas.s Where, however, the native is an artist, the limitations may be regarded as troublesome. Thus we find Palmer Cox in art and Frank R. Stockton in literature somewhat lacking in the graciousness and floridity that seem appropriate to the artistic temperament. Occasionally, the effect of Venus in Aries is very bad indeed, implying heartlessness, and this will particularly apply when the general Temperament is already mercurial. We class the position as a decided restriction upon Venus. She always fails to attain her full development, and whether this be good or bad for the native in a general way must depend upon considerations entirely foreign to her. It is evident, for example, that a great soldier will not be benefited by having Venus of equal importance with Mars, or a great man of science byhaving her stronger than Uranus, Saturn and Mercury. Considerations such as the foregoing must always be taken into account in estimating the real value to the native of any particular position of any particular planet. Each description must be regarded as an isolated statement, merely one pawn in a complex position of many pieces.

Aleister Crowley & Evangeline Adams, The general principles of astrology (1930)