{"id":4550,"date":"2018-11-26T00:48:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2018-11-26T00:48:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:48:06","slug":"astrology-planets-love-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/2018\/11\/astrology-planets-love-venus.html","title":{"rendered":"Astrology And Your Planets In Love: Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/files\/2018\/10\/matthew-currie-astrology-compatibility-venus.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4522 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/360\/2018\/10\/matthew-currie-astrology-compatibility-venus-300x300.png\" alt=\"matthew currie astrology compatibility venus\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>(This blog entry is part of a series about how the planets in your birth chart affect other people, for better or worse. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/2018\/10\/astrology-compatibility-planets-love-introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the introduction.<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following this series, you will have noticed that it follows a certain format. However, the reason I started writing this series was to dismiss some people&#8217;s automatic expectations about the role of the planet Venus and &#8220;love,&#8221; in whatever form love takes. So today, I am breaking from form.<\/p>\n<p>Venus is the planet that is most associated with our concept of love. I think that&#8217;s a mistake, but it&#8217;s certainly an understandable one. Yes, Venus rules all the small kindnesses that surround love, like flowers and candies and such. But these things aren&#8217;t love, any more than an emoji is an actual emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, in matters of love, Venus rules a lot of the things that we associate with dating and courtship. Saying something nice to someone you care about to make them feel better? Sure, that&#8217;s Venus. Pet names and affectionate and braces? Yes that&#8217;s a Venus too. But again, that&#8217;s not love. It&#8217;s evidence of love, certainly&#8230; but it isn&#8217;t love itself.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I&#8217;ll return to the regular format for this series. And if you were expecting me to tell you what exactly love is&#8230; sorry for the disappointment. You know what when you&#8217;re in it, but better minds than mine have tried to explain and quantify what love is, and I doubt I&#8217;m going to do a better job of it here.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is a question best left to the philosophers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe title=\"Haddaway - What Is Love [Official 4K]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HEXWRTEbj1I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Want to know how to work with the current and future energy to get maximum benefit? <a href=\"mailto:astrologyshow@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Feel free to write me about it!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/about-matthew-currie.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>CLICK HERE to find out how you can get a personalized, informative, life-changing consultation that will help you take charge of your life in the next year!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/matthewtheastrologer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>CLICK HERE to join the OH MY STARS Facebook Fan Page, and get exclusive content, an additional discount on a reading, and more material on blog entries!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This blog entry is part of a series about how the planets in your birth chart affect other people, for better or worse. 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