Venus in Leo in the 10th House
Venus in Leo in the Tenth House
The placement of Venus in Leo indicates that you have a need to be appreciated within your relationships and this need is also reflected in the way in which you formulate your value system. This sometimes manifests as a need to be dominant (or have your authority acknowledged) in a relationship. With Venus in Leo, your need to be appreciated and noticed also may manifest in your adopting values that are in harmony with creativity, thus allowing you the scope to be dramatic and draw attention to yourself. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Leo are a result of your need to value creativity and feel respected and appreciated in your relationships.
Venus’ placement in Leo is especially ambivalent, as is symbolized by the natural square between Leo and Venus-ruled Taurus combined with the natural sextile between Leo and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Leo is the Fixed Fire sign. Venus is symbolically energized by Leo’s fire, but this fire energy may also be discomforting for the naturally passive nature associated with Venus. Regarding relationships with Venus in Leo, on the one hand, you are likely to enjoy being “on display” to others, and particularly to your partner. On the other hand, the inherent self-centeredness often associated with Leo sometimes makes sharing a relationship difficult. Venus is generally comfortable with the stable, fixed nature of Leo, since this is supportive of relationship. However, when Leo’s fire energy turns this fixity to active stubbornness, the result is not likely to be positive.
Venus also symbolizes the anima in the psyche. Thus, if you are female with Venus in Leo, you are likely to model your femininity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Leo. If you are male, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Leo-associated traits.
Insecurities
As an individual with Venus in Leo, if you are insecure within yourself, you are likely to have a fear of being unnoticed and unappreciated. This often leads you to try too hard to be liked by others. Domineering relationships may be the result. You may either dominate your partner to bolster your own security - forcing him or her to acknowledge you - or in your insecurity and lack of self-esteem you may attract someone who will dominate you. With Venus in Leo, you may also settle for someone who is “below your level” in your desperation to enter a relationship in which you are appreciated and acknowledged to be superior.
Venus in the 10th House:
The placement of Venus in the 10th House suggests the importance and value that you place on accomplishment and success and your potential willingness to sublimate or even sacrifice the quality of your relationship(s) in order to achieve your goals. While the Venus in the 10th House placement resonates to a 7th-10th House conflict, the rewards that you receive by achieving success - the ability to possess and enjoy what you like - resonates to the 2nd-10th House trine. Thus, you are likely to be driven by what you value to succeed in order to obtain what you like.
However, having Venus in the 10th House, what you value is also likely to be influenced by your focus on achievement and success. If you are predisposed by other factors to be driven toward success, then you are likely to be drawn toward those things that are symbolic of success, as well as developing values that enhance your chances of achieving success. If, however, your basic values lie in other directions than in accomplishment, status attainment and/or career service, these values could shape your ideas about success instead. Thus, with Venus in the 10th House, the relative strength of your pull toward what is represented by the 10th House or that which is symbolized by Venus should determine the extent to which one overpowers and dominates the other. If values such as enjoyment of what one likes, companionship and relationship or moral goodness are strong, this may diminish your drive toward success, as it is conceived materialistically.
Having Venus in the 10th House, this may be a positive or a negative development and may also signify some internal conflict. Even if the super-ego sanctioned concept of success is not emphasized, however, there is still likely to be a drive to achieve your own values (enjoyment, relationship, goodness, etc.). In turn, the interplay between values and success orientation are likely to shape the way that you conceive of and actualize your relationships.
Insecurities
As an individual with Venus in the 10th House, because you judge everything using the touchstone of its status and acclaimed success, you feel that your own relationships and how you are seen by others is determined by your own status, success and accomplishments. Feeling this pressure to succeed, you judge others by how much they will contribute to your own success and status.
With Venus in the 10th House, your values and your tastes, also, are crafted to enhance your status and to create an image of success and accomplishment. You become disturbed if you are associated with anything or anyone who does not fit this image. You believe that what is important is winning, but it is actually not the goal itself that you ultimately consider to be important, but how your winning will enhance your own image.
Having Venus in the 10th House, your true self-esteem is low and needs to be protected, since there is no authentic self behind the facade of status and success. If you do not enjoy success and status, you must grasp for it and/or manufacture it for yourself. If you cannot see yourself as successful, or you perceive that others view you as a failure, you may become discouraged, aimless, display poor judgment and/or become self-pitying.
Evaluation Focus
As an individual with Venus in the 10th House, you tend to make evaluations on a practical basis of the likelihood that something will succeed or assist you in reaching your goals. You are likely to place a high value on success and accomplishment and to be attracted to those things that are success-oriented. You generally like achievement and may dislike people or things that you associate with failure or lack of motivation. To the extent that you have traits of selflessness, you may enjoy accomplishing things that benefit society. You may, therefore, choose a career that can be described as people-oriented. You may also choose a career in which your talents of good taste and judgment can be employed successfully.
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Article referenced from:
Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 2: Planets in Signs
Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 3: Planets in Houses
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