Venus in Leo - by transit

Venus in Leo is a really lovely and vibrant transit. Venus in Leo tends to be more expressive and communicative than when she is in Cancer. While in Leo, Venus is confident and powerful, ready to take charge and be a leader. Venus in Leo tends to be warm, friendly, and radiate love and generosity.

Leo is a hot, dry, fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. Leo is deeply connected to themes of performance, fame, celebrity, and legacy. That's because the path of the Sun through the sky each day is one of the few certain things. Without fail, the Earth continues to spin on its axis, the Sun rises and falls. In ancient astrology, the Sun was associated with eternity — the central, governing force around which all things are based.

This is where we get the connections between Leo, celebrity, fame, and legacy. Leo represents the spotlight, the central figure around which other people form their opinions.

All about Venus

Venus is a planet of connection and harmony and represents the ability and instincts to make dislike things similar. Think about a friend who is a great matchmaker, who can see the commonalities between two different people, and connect them based on these similarities.

Venus is also associated with pleasure and sensuality — the enjoyment of the five senses, the bodily pleasures. Venus wants to adorn and be adorned, to be surrounded by beauty and pleasant things. To indulge the senses, enjoy bodily pleasures. There's a reason why Venus is also associated with sex and sexual pleasure.

In our birth charts, the zodiac sign and house placement of Venus can teach us a lot about how we create harmony and connection in our lives. Venus represents the human need to connect to one another, to be part of a group. The need for belonging is a fundamental aspect of human nature — and the sign Venus is in will tell you about the style in which you seek harmony and connection.

Venus in Leo — in the birth chart

When we have Venus in Leo in the birth chart, our Venus energy expresses itself through this vibrant, expressive, and performative sign. This is where we get stereotypes like Venus in Leo people being the life of the party and comfortable in the spotlight. Venus in Leo tends to create harmonious and pleasurable relationships and surroundings in a very vocal, outwards, and communicative kind of way.

Venus in Leo has a very regal, queenly energy, and very firm boundaries about how she would like to be treated. As a fixed sign, Leo's energy is very firm, solid, reliable, and loyal. Venus in Leo might have very high standards that need to be catered to — or else you hear about it. To truly thrive, Venus in Leo needs to feel acknowledged, supported, and seen. After all, she is ruled by the Sun, which literally represents our focus and attention, and where we shine our light.

This desire to be honoured and awarded has a shadow side, of course. Venus in Leo demands to be acknowledged, catered to, and made to feel the most important, which can be taken too far.

Venus in Leo might also struggle with acknowledging their darkness, and might try to deny negative feelings or difficult emotions, thinking they should always feel happy and sunny. Or they might struggle with the dark side of fame, youth, and legacy, as we'll explore in the celebrity examples.

To get even more specific about your Venus in Leo, look at where the Sun is in your birth chart — what sign and house is it in? That will help give you a sense of the other factors and themes that influence your relationships and other Venus-ruled things in your life. You can also look at what signs contain Libra and Taurus in your birth chart — those house topics are by your Venus in Leo placed.

For an even deeper guide into what Venus in Leo means in the birth chart (especially if you were born at night!), you can always book an astrology reading to get a detailed overview and even deeper insight.

Celebrity examples: Venus in Leo

In this section, we'll look at some examples of famous people with Venus in Leo. Of course, we don't know the inner lives of celebrities and famous people, so take all of these observations with a grain of salt. I am also not a biographer and all of this information is filtered through my own lens. If you have any other examples of celebrities with Venus in Leo, let me know in the comments!

Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse's biography is a great example of both the benefits of the Venus in Leo placement and the difficulties. Winehouse was an acclaimed English singer and songwriter, known for her deep, expressive vocals. Her struggle with drugs and alcohol (and fame and celebrity), was part of her creative practice. Tragically, Winehouse lost her life to addiction in 2011.

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe is best known for playing school-aged wizard Harry Potter in the film adaptions, although he has gone to be in numerous stage and film productions. Famous for his youthful roles (which is a very Venus in Leo thing — to be famous for youth), Radcliffe's subsequent career choices push back against those stereotypes and reveal other ways that the "dark side" of fame and notoriety can appear. Radcliffe famously appeared naked in the stage production of Equus (scandalous in part because of his association with being a childhood star) and has since starred in roles like Swiss Army Man, where he played a corpse, which is a pretty fun example of the "flip side" of fame.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow is an award-winning actress turned "lifestyle influencer." She is known for starring roles in award-winning films such as Emma (1996) and Shakespeare in Love (1998). These days, she is known for Goop, which is a "lifestyle and wellness" brand/shop that sells extremely expensive "alternative" products that make outrageous claims about their effects. And is basically just a big scam that exploits the insecurities people socialized female (just one example: Goop paid $145,000 for making unscientific claims about vaginal eggs). If that's not a dark side of using your feminine fame to sell Venusian things to women, I don't know what is.

Do you have Venus in Leo? Share your experiences in the comments below! I'd love to hear how some of these traits resonate with you.

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