The placement of Venus in Aquarius indicates that you have a need for uniqueness and originality in your relationships and your value system. These are abstract concepts and pursuing these needs often leaves little room or inclination for emotion or the mundanely personal. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Aquarius are a result of your need to feel that you are a unique individual even when involved in a relationship. Having Venus in Aquarius, behavior and personality are also the result of your need to adopt a set of values that are independent, not conditioned by society’s expectations and reflective of your unique viewpoint.
The Venus in Aquarius placement is complex and contains inherent tensions. This is symbolized by the natural square between Aquarius and Venus-ruled Taurus in combination with the natural trine between Aquarius and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Aquarius is the Fixed Air sign. While Aquarius’ airiness promotes social interaction, it is generally not at the personal level at which Venus operates. Thus, with Venus in Aquarius, you need and want social interaction, but you may not have the full set of social skills to successfully engage in interpersonal relationships. Also, the fixed nature of the Aquarian character tends to inhibit the fluidity that is naturally inherent in the Venusian energy. This stiffness and rigidity also tends to impact your relationships and your values and perceptions.
Venus also symbolizes the anima in the psyche. Thus, if you are female with Venus in Aquarius, you are likely to model your femininity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Aquarius. If you are male, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Aquarius-associated traits.
Insecurities
As an individual with Venus in Aquarius, in your insecurity, you are steadfastly committed to preserving your “independence” and individual “uniqueness” within your relationship(s) and as part of your value system.
Having Venus in Aquarius, you cannot understand the uniqueness of another, nor the needs of others for relationship “below” your level of self-abstraction. Your lack of understanding and appreciation for the personal causes you to become defensive in your relationship(s). This often manifests as an aloof or authoritarian attitude or a testy and suspicious nature. Also, in your conflict between the abstract and the personal, you sometimes develop a defense mechanism in which you are guarding the “higher good” against messy and imperfect “selfish” considerations of others.
Venus in the 12th House:
There is often a natural tension represented by Venus in the 12th House between the quality of selfhood that is a necessary component of both relationship and evaluation and your conscious or unconscious focus on losing your selfhood. Having Venus in the 12th House, you must learn to balance the legitimate interests of the self with your desire to attain selflessness if you are to be successful in your relationships and if you are to authenticate your values. You must realize, at some level, that the ego - though it be an illusion - is a necessary tool for functioning within the illusion of existence.
With Venus in the 12th House, you are capable of sensitive and compassionate behavior in relationships, true concern for others, a perception from a higher perspective and the adoption of a value system that is based upon selfless service to others. While engaging in compassionate social interaction, it is often the case that you feel the need to withdraw temporarily and focus within yourself. This serves to recharge you, provide a needed rest and preserve the balance that you have established. You are prone to take the needs of others into consideration before your own needs are met.
As an individual with Venus in the 12th House, you evaluate your situation and that of others from a selfless and sensitive perspective and are ever ready to respond with empathy and care. For this reason, it is generally essential that you spend some time alone with yourself, or you risk burn-out. With Venus in the 12th House, if your attitude and assumptions are not in balance, the drain upon your psychic resources that others impose generally will debilitate you in some manner. Subconsciously, you may adopt defense mechanisms against this debilitation and these mechanisms themselves are likely to be negative. You may experience much pain and suffering in the world, either directly or in empathy with others. This experience generally has a marked effect on you, either in a positive or a negative direction.
