Venus-Jupiter
Overview: Venus-Jupiter in tense alignments combines the pleasure, beauty, artistry, and love associated with the Venus archetype with the heights, expansion, richness, and broader horizon associated with Jupiter.
The challenges: a broad and encompassing (jupiter) love of sweets (venus) that can have negative effects on the health. a tendency toward broad strokes (Jupiter) of socializing (venus) that lack any real depth.
The strengths: the practice of tolerance (Jupiter) in love (Venus). experience of the culturally diverse (Jupiter) love (Venus) and/or the appreciation of the culturally diverse (Jupiter) art (Venus). celebrating (Jupiter) love and friendship (Venus). A successful (jupiter) artistic creation (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 tendency of the Venus-Jupiter combination to combine the beauty, art, and value of the Venus archetype with the heights, increase and celebration of the Jupiter archetype can be seen in the chart and life of actress Scarlett Johansson, whose numerous accolades for her beauty include twice being named “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire magazine, as well as similar listings in half a dozen other publications. The high-ranking (Jupiter) value (Venus) of this combination can be seen in the actress’s title as the highest-grossing actress of all time in North America.
The largeness (Jupiter) of love and pleasure (Venus) can be seen in the multiple lovers of Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, born with this combination in his natal chart. On the other hand Jupiter-Venus can represent the lover (Venus) from another country or culture (Jupiter as the expanded horizon). Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima, demonstrates this side of the Venus-Jupiter combination in her natal chart with her marriage to Serbian basketball player Marko Jaric.
Jupiter’s association with heights and optimism often shows up as high ideals. The Jupiter-Venus combination in the natal chart of singer/songwriter Steve Winwood can be seen as the high ideal (Jupiter) of love (Venus) in his song titled “A Higher Love.”
The Venus-Jupiter combination as the big (Jupiter) love (Venus) can be seen in the song Gigantic performed by The Pixies and sung by Kim Deal, born with the Venus-Jupiter combination in her natal chart, the chorus of which is “gigantic, gigantic, gigantic, a big, big love”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6qerZlczw