Venus Sign Calculator

What Your Venus Sign Describes

Venus describes affection and attraction: how you give and receive love, what draws you to people and things, and what you find worth keeping. It also covers taste, pleasure and money, which are all ways of saying what you value. Read more about Venus in astrology.

A Taurus Venus may love through steadiness and the senses; an Aquarius Venus may need room and friendship in a relationship. Your Venus sign does not choose who you love, but it describes the way love feels natural to you.

How the Venus Sign Is Calculated

Venus never strays more than about 47 degrees from the Sun, so your Venus sign is always your Sun sign or within two signs of it. It normally spends four to five weeks in a sign, about 30 days on average from 1900 to 2060. About every 19 months it turns retrograde, and the longest single stay in that range lasted 126 days.

The calculator finds Venus's apparent geocentric longitude at your birth instant, and whether Venus was retrograde at the time.

Why Birth Time Matters

Between 1900 and 2060, Venus changed sign on about 3% of days, roughly 1 day in 29. If your birthday is one of them, the sign depends on the hour you were born. Without a time, the calculator checks every hour of your birth date (in every time zone, if you leave out the place) and shows each sign Venus could have held.

With your birth time and place, the result also gives the exact degree and the house, the area of life where this placement works.

How Accurate Is It?

Positions come from Selfgazer's astrology engine, the same one that draws the chart in your astro room: VSOP87 planetary theory through Astronomy Engine, with Chiron from Swiss Ephemeris tables. Tested against the Swiss Ephemeris, planets agree to within half an arcminute and house cusps to within a tenth of an arcminute. Your local birth time is converted with your birthplace's historical time zone rules, including past daylight saving changes. Everything is calculated in your browser, and nothing you enter is stored.