Cast & Chart

Placement

Venus in Leo

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

About this entry

Terms for Venus in Leo cover the fourteenth to the nineteenth degree in Lilly 1659, a narrow band in a sign otherwise reserved for the Sun. That is the extent of her listed claim. He makes her cold and moist and Leo hot and dry, so the temperature argument runs against her too.

Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) says she never gets more than two signs from the Sun, which puts the Sun somewhere from Gemini through Libra when Venus is in Leo. Alan Leo 1899 describes love in Leo as something expressed in action and from the heart, a line about the sign that later writers transfer to this planet. Modern astrology supplies the theatrical romance usually attached to this placement, and none of the writers read here says it of Venus.

Where this text comes from

Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.

Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.