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Venus is the planet of pleasure and love, governing your capacity for
love, your ability to appreciate beauty, your social grace, and your
friendships. Expressed in its positive form, Venus endows a person with
sex appeal, charm, amiability, an appreciation of the arts, and an eye
for beauty. Venus's influence manifests itself through romance, great
art and music, and loving and sharing with others.
If Venus is afflicted (at odds with another planet in your horoscope),
Venus's influence instills decadence, narcissism, and laziness.
Since Venus is so close to the Sun (from earth's vantage point), it
always lies within two signs (before or after) of your Sun sign.
Venus is the second planet in distance from the Sun and is the
brightest object in the sky (except for the Sun and Moon, of course).
It is called the morning star when it shines in the eastern dawn sky
and it is called the evening star when it shines in the western sky
at sunset. Because of its relatively close proximity to the Sun, Venus
is never visible for more than three hours before sunrise or three
hours after sunset.
Venus's dense atmosphere and complete cloud cover make it impossible
to see the surface of the planet from earth. Its atmosphere is almost
entirely composed of carbon dioxide and its clouds are concentrated
sulfuric acid. Its surface temperature is a uniform and inhospitable
459 degrees Celsius. The Pioneer Venus 1 spacecraft conducted a radar
mapping of the surface, revealing a relatively flat plain surrounding
two continent-sized highland areas which have been named Aphrodite
Terra and Ishtar Terra after two symbolic manifestations of the goddess
Venus. The Magellan spacecraft has discovered large active volcanoes
and lava flows, as well as extensive meteorite craters.
Venus completes its orbit around the Sun every 226 days and has a
mass which is 82 percent that of earth. It has no known satellites (or
moons).
In Roman mythology, Venus was originally a goddess of fields and
gardens but later became identified with the Greek goddess of love and
beauty, Aphrodite. Venus was the wife of Vulcan but was unfaithful to
him many times. Among her lovers were the shepherd Adonis, the god of
war, Mars, and Anchises, the father of Aeneas. Venus gave birth to the
god of love, Cupid.