Sun-Venus

Overview: Sun-Venus in tense alignments joins the warmth, mission, will, central identity, and the father, all associated with the archetype of the Sun, with the love, pleasure, beauty, and art associated with the Venus archetype.

the challenges: the identity (Sun) that is associated with ease, laziness, and lack of motivation (Venus).

The strengths: This combination may be reflected in life as the association of one’s identity and mission (Sun) with enjoying the pleasures of life (Venus), as the one whose identity (Sun) is associated with the warmth (Sun) of friendship, love, and good times (Venus), as the association of one’s identity (Sun) with the beauty of art (Venus).

Below are examples of well-known individuals born with this combination in their natal charts (an astrological birth chart is a symbolic map of the sky at the moment of birth). Observing how this combination appears in their lives can help us recognize it in our own. The more consciously we engage with these astrological alignments—or “aspects”—the more their underlying tensions can be integrated, allowing their strengths to emerge.

Please note: the expression of this archetypal tension, as seen in the lives and work of the people below, may reflect varying levels of integration.

• The association of the Sun-Venus combination with warmth (Sun) and pleasure (Venus) and being at the center (Sun) of friendly (Venus) social scenes and parties can be seen in number of movies in which Leonardo Dicaprio demonstrates his Sun/Venus combination by playing characters central to the focus of social/party scenes, including Romeo and Juliet, Titanic, Celebrity, The Beach, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, The Wolf of Wall Street, and others.

• This combination in the chart of author W. Somerset Maugham can be seen in his novel The Painted Veil, in which a resolving theme in the novel involves love (Venus) of the father (Sun).