Venus in Scorpio

Scorpio sits across the wheel from Taurus, so Lilly 1659 counts it among Venus's two detriments, the other being Aries. A detriment marks a place on the circle, and how far it matters in a reading depends on a great deal else in the chart.

Both signs of Mars thus oppose the two houses of Venus, a neat piece of symmetry in the old scheme. Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) makes Scorpio a Mars house and says its distance from the houses of the luminaries is discordant. Lilly gives Venus a face in the last ten degrees and a term from 15 to 21.

His temperature notes favor her here more than the label does, since Scorpio is cold and watery and she is cold and moist. Modern astrology describes a consuming, all-or-nothing style of attachment for this Venus, and no source read for this site uses such language.