Gonino School
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SCHOOL OF ASTRAPSYCHOLOGY · THE PLANETS
Venus
LOVE · BEAUTY · VALUE
The principle of eros and worth — what one loves and how one harmonizes.
I.
The Aesthetic
rose-gold, blossom, soft drapery, harmonious proportion
Every image the School makes of Venus begins here — the motif set on a parchment ground, painted in the School's house style: Van Gogh's impasto crossed with Monet's open air, drawn toward the Greco-Futurist line.
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PORTRAIT OF VENUS — FORTHCOMING FROM THE SCHOOL OF AESTHETICS
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The Attributes
ARCHETYPE
The Lover
The one who unites through desire and beauty.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION
value, desire, and attraction
The part of the personality Venus governs — its job in every chart.
THE ROMAN NAME HOLDS
♀ Venus
Venus goes by its Roman name, which is already its astronomical name.
III.
The Astronomy
The brightest wanderer and Earth's near-twin in size — shrouded in reflective cloud, appearing only as morning or evening star, never more than 47° from the Sun.
ORBITAL PERIOD
225 days
TIME PER SIGN
~25 days–4 months per sign (longest when retrograde)
RETROGRADE
Retrogrades about every 19 months for ~40 days; its five retrograde stations in eight years trace a near-perfect pentagram around the zodiac.
Rotates backwards — true retrograde rotation — and so slowly that its day (243 Earth days) outlasts its year.
Rings an 8-year resonance with Earth: 13 Venus orbits in almost exactly 8 Earth years, repeating its sky positions — the pentagram the ancients drew.
IV.
The Meaning
The principle of eros and worth — what one loves and how one harmonizes.
In the natal chart, Venus governs value, desire, and attraction. Where it stands — its sign, its house, the aspects it casts — shapes how that part of you shows up in practice: as love, beauty, value.
THE SHADOW
vanity and people-pleasing; caring more about being liked than being honest.
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Dominion
RULES
Taurus
Libra
EXALTED IN
Pisces
NATURAL HOUSES
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The 2nd House — the Gate of Hades
What one values and holds — substance, worth, and the body's resources.
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The 7th House — the Descendant
The other — partnership, open enmity, and the mirror of relation.
VI.
The Study
The Study — forthcoming
A thorough scholarly treatment of Venus is being prepared by the School — its history, its cycles, and its full psychology.