Venus, our planet of love, attachment, attraction and wealth is setting up shop in the lion’s heart of Leo this week. Named for the goddess of love, Venus changes signs every 20-45 days or about once every three weeks. As an inner planet, Venus transits have an evident, immediate impact on we earthlings.
Venusian transits influence our collective approach to love, pleasure, aesthetics, and our relationship to earning and spending money. Crawling out of the crab shell of Cancer, where Venus expresses itself via sentimental leaning, aching nostalgia, and a deep need for security, the planet will move into the spandex-clad limelight of Leo on Thursday, July 11 at 12:19 p.m.
ET As Leo is the great showboat ‘pick me’ sign of the zodiac, this Venus transit is primed to make everyone crave a little more validation and a lot more frivolity. Leo rules the heart and, in terms of the zodiac as a developmental scale, represents the eternal adolescent, complete with willfulness, egocentrism, and an irrepressible joie de vivre. This transit asks us to connect with the child we were, the skinned-knee kid who made for the sake of making with no thought for judgment, monetary value, perfect form, or second-guessing.
“Acting like a child” is usually leveled as a condemnation, but Venus in Leo reminds us of the richness of that time when we were most connected to what made us feel full, fine, and absolutely ourselves. Venus in Leo encourages play and dressing up, trying on, trying out.