Sun-Venus
The Sun-Venus combination 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.
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), and as the identity (Sun) associated with ease, laziness, and lack of motivation (Venus).
Below are examples of famous people born with this combination in their natal charts (natal chart is another word for astrological birth chart, or pictographic representation of the sky when they were born). When we witness how this combination shows up in the lives of others, we can become more self-aware of how this combination shows up in our own lives. The more we are conscious of the ways astrological alignments (otherwise known as “aspects”) show up in our lives, the more the archetypal tensions involved can become integrated in our lives, thus revealing inherent strengths to us.
Please note that the tension of this archetypal combination, as illustrated in the lives and creations of the famous people in the examples below, may be demonstrated in ways that are more integrated or less integrated.
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).