Venus in Sagittarius

Venus holds only a slim allotment in this sign in Lilly 1659, terms from the ninth to the fourteenth degree and nothing more. Sagittarius is the house and joy of Jupiter, and Adams 1928, using the old labels, calls Jupiter the greater Fortune as Lilly calls Venus the lesser. Two planets called fortunate, then, meet in this placement through the sign's owner.

Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) classes the sign as bicorporeal, a class he calls changeable and amorous when read for the mind, though he reserves that reading for Mercury and the Moon. Modern astrology reads this Venus as restless and in love with freedom, and it draws on the archer's symbol. Alan Leo 1899 also links that symbol with freedom, and in the chapter read here he says nothing of Venus in the sign.