Venus in Aquarius

Terms from the thirteenth to the twentieth degree are the only entry for Venus in Aquarius in the transcription of Lilly 1659 read here, and that list may be faulty, since it leaves the first ten degrees of the sign with no face at all. The sign is the principal house of Saturn, in his phrase, and the placement owes more to the sign's owner than to any claim of her own.

Identifying that owner is the difficulty. Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) and Lilly say Saturn, Heindel 1919 pairs Saturn with Uranus, Adams 1928 says Uranus alone, and Alan Leo in How to Judge a Nativity, known here from a 1928 printing that dates its first edition to 1903, rarely lets either outer planet be the true ruler of a house.

Alan Leo 1899 gives the sign a taste for art, music and literature along with scientific ability, and Sepharial 1920 credits Venus with fine feeling and love of pleasure. Those two sources alone yield a warm interest in the arts. Modern astrology adds friendship and affection for humanity at large, ideas that Leo's humanitarian note partly anticipates.