Venus and Mars Aspects in Synastry
If Venus asks, Mars demands. If Venus waits, Mars takes action. If Venus is feminine, Mars is masculine. Although Venus’s peace-seeking nature may seem to clash with Mars’s war-thirstiness, Venus hides Mars within it. Even though we know Aphrodite, also known as Venus, as the goddess of love in popularized Roman-Greek mythologies, her Sumerian and Babylonian counterparts, Ishtar and Inanna, respectively, are known as the goddesses of love and war. Venus goes hand in hand with the fiery nature of Mars. Although we drape Venus in pink caftans in modern astrology, it must be kept in mind that she has never taken off Mars’s red shoes. Deep down, all Venusian factors meet with Mars’s functions. For example, Venus is equated with beauty, but it creates rivalry, which is a Martian notion. Didn’t the Trojan War begin over the beautiful Helen? Can there be peace without war?
In The Astronomica, Manilius mentions that only Venus can mollify Mars, the god of war. In chart comparisons, if your Venus stimulates the Mars of the other person, you can influence this person to be more agreeable and congruent. When the opposite of this is in question, the Mars individual will set the Venus individual in motion. The aspects between Venus and Mars in relationship analyses express just how powerful the sparks between the two are. After all, every man (Mars) searches for the woman (Venus) within. When these two opposites unite, love happens. In order to understand the physical attraction that manifests, we must look at the stories of Venus and Mars, because they reveal what it is that elevates the lust of lovers to the highest level.
Jupiter, the ruler of Olympus, determines who will marry the lovely Venus. In exchange for the lightnings he creates, he marries Venus to Vulcan, the ironsmith. Vulcan is a key player in the patriarchal system because he represents brute force. By a twist of fate, the most beautiful goddess ends up marrying the ugliest god, and perhaps this provides her a reason to cheat on her husband. Vulcan, who works all the time, certainly gives Venus enough time to have affairs. Venus is concerned with being lovable. She dabs sweet fragrances onto her skin and brushes her silky, waist-length hair. The scent she spreads around when she flicks her hair is so enticing that it is impossible to escape her magnetism.
The beautiful Venus and the god of war, Mars, cannot resist the attraction between them. In mythoses, Venus is depicted as a lustful woman. The fact that Venus is married cannot stand in the way of this love, which Mars fuels by his nature. The lovers meet in secret after dark. No one can find out about this affair so long as the god of the Sun isn’t around. One day, however, upon a momentary weakness, the lovers continue to sleep in each other’s arms after the break of dawn. When sunlight falls upon them, everything is revealed. The god of the Sun tells the other gods of Mount Olympus about what he has seen. The lovers become victims of lust: they are trapped in the fine iron mesh woven by Vulcan and set as a trap; they are disgraced in front of the gods. In this sense, with its shadow sides, Venus is a goddess who has lost her moral attributes, as suggested by Lilly. With its urges laid bare, Venus seeks to satisfy its desires the fast and easy way, disregarding any moral principles.
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