Venus-Saturn

Venus-Saturn combines the pleasure, love, attraction, and artistry of the Venus archetype with the labor, reserve, maturity, and limitations associated with the Saturn archetype.

The Venus-Saturn combination can be reflected in ways including, but not limited to, feeling constraints (Saturn) in love and art (Venus), the love or friendship (Venus) that has gone cold (Saturn), yet also the ability to persevere (Saturn) through difficulties (Saturn) in love, beauty, and art (Venus), to forge something that is lasting (Saturn).

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 Venus-Saturn combination in the chart and life of Actor Javier Bardem can be seen in his tendency to combine work (Saturn) and love (Venus) by working on several movies with his wife, actress Penelope Cruz. Here is a scene in which they are working together exploring themes of separation (Saturn) and trust and love (Venus): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTqtWm_DTKk

  • The Venus-Saturn combination poses a saturnian restriction on beauty (Venus) while at the same time lending a sort of beautiful solemnity to those born with this combination. For this reason the Venus-Saturn combination is commonly associated with women who have short hair or who have shaved their heads. Examples of this include Sinead O’connor, Annie Lennox, and Brianne Hildebrand.

  • Rockstar Joan Jett reflects the tension between love (Venus) and judgment (Saturn) that is sometimes present in the Venus-Saturn combination via her song “I Hate Myself for Loving You.” Simultaneously she reflects the stately and reserved (Saturn) beauty (Venus) associated with this combination in her natal chart via her beautiful (Venus) yet restrained and authoritative (Saturn) stance in the music video for the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpNw7jYkbVc

  • Artists born with the Venus-Saturn combination often have an ability to convey through their art a truly poignant feeling of loss, longing and heartbreak. Examples of this include Russel Crowe, born with the Venus-Saturn combination, who’s character in “The Gladiator” experienced the loss of his wife and son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIPPWcgu3Mw . Another example of this is Sinead O’Connor, born with the Venus-Saturn combination in her natal chart, who performed powerful songs on the theme of longing and heartbreak, such as “Troy,” “Jackie,” and “Just Like You Said it Would Be.” The positive manifestation of this combination can be experienced in her song “Nothing Compares to You,” in which heartbreak leads to a realization of what she truly (Saturn) values (Venus).

  • The challenging side of the Venus-Saturn combination can be seen in the song “Never No Time to Play” by the rapper Guru who was born with the Venus-Saturn combination in his birth chart. In the song the lyrics proclaim that Guru has “never no time to play.” He has to work hard (Saturn) all the time and never has time to enjoy (Venus) life. At the same time the song is actually a testament that hard work (Saturn) can create beautiful art (Venus) because the song itself is a work (Saturn) of beauty (Venus): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DtCC4NQJ0

  • For a comedic take on this combination which can at times be reflected as a heavy (Saturn) heart (Venus), check out comedian Kristen Wiig, who was born with this combination in her birth chart, as she portrays a character who is a vision of Venusian beauty until a Saturnian reality check sets in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZFSQrfR3qU

  • The Venus-Saturn combination in the birth chart of actress and model Sofia Vergara can be seen in her central role in the T.V. series Modern Family, in which she portrays a beautiful (Venus) Colombiana who is married (Venus) to a much older husband (Saturn).

  • The sense of solitude and loneliness that can be associated with the Venus-Saturn combination can be seen in the ballad “Tous les Garcons et les Filles,” by French singer and actress Francoise Hardy, who was born with this combination in her birth chart, in which Hardy experiences a world in which everyone has a lover but her. The sense of solidity, as well as consistency, resolve, and persistence (Saturn), in regards to love (Venus) of this combination can also be seen in Hardy’s over four decade-long marriage to her partner, French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, also born with this combination his natal chart.