Venus in Taurus

Taurus and Libra are Venus's two houses, and the old writers disagree on which serves her by day. Lilly 1659 calls Taurus her night house, while a footnote in Ashmand's 1822 Ptolemy, following Whalley, lists Taurus as her day house and Libra as her night house. The disagreement is small and typical.

Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) justifies the assignment by fruitfulness and by the sextile distance of these signs from the luminaries' houses. Lilly adds that Venus governs the earth signs by day and gives her the first eight degrees of Taurus as terms, so a daytime Venus early in this sign collects house, triplicity and term at once.

Raphael's Guide of 1877 portrays an attractive, good-tempered person who is fond of pleasure. Modern writers speak of loyalty and sensual comfort, terms that fit the sign's fixed and earthy classes even though the older texts never phrase it so.