Venus in Scorpio – Fiery Lava of Passions That Transform the Soul

The planet named after the Roman goddess of love is responsible in the natal chart for all personal relationships that touch the heart. This is not only one’s behavior in love toward the opposite sex, but also the nature of one’s interaction with the mother, sisters, and female friends. In a man’s chart, it also represents the ideal portrait of a beloved, knowledge of which makes it easier to find the right approach and understand her motives.

Venus in Scorpio does not promise easy relationships. Dwelling in the realm of Mars and Pluto, she becomes a volcano of blazing passion, burning from within with a desire to pour over the object of affection in an all-consuming fire. The native craves the drama and obstacles of a Brazilian soap opera and is ready to fight for happiness with fire and sword—even if it isn’t truly necessary. To love such a person means to brace oneself for extremes, intensity, and pain.

Psychological Profile Features

For those with Venus in Scorpio, personal relationships must always be on the edge—electrifying, emotionally explosive, or they lose interest and become bored. Falling for unattainable individuals and provoking friends and mothers into scandals, they satisfy their Mars-Pluto drive for conflict, despite the suffering it brings.

Upon achieving their goal through many obstacles, natives with Venus in Scorpio often fall into depression after a brief period of euphoria and soon seek out new adventures. Once they have mastered their jealousy and possessiveness and learned to live in harmony with the world, they become wise, devoted creators capable of shaping their own destiny and achieving desired results in relationships. To reach this mastery, it is important to understand all the secret influences of watery Venus on character and behavior:

• an alluring, charismatic appearance, a magnetic gaze, and a natural reservoir of sexual energy;
• the ability to attract large financial flows through partners and relatives: inheritance, gifts, sponsorship;
• unfulfilled erotic needs are destructive to both health and psyche, breeding cruelty, self-torment, and masochism;
• a rejection of social norms, especially regarding intimacy;
• an attraction to the darker side of life: crime, secret services, films and books about murders and criminal psychology;
• anger, vindictiveness, intolerance, and impulsiveness are major flaws that hinder happiness;
• a need for relationships on the edge of eroticism and death, shifting from worship and trembling tenderness to painful perversions;
• using personal sexuality to manipulate others for personal gain;
• deep mysticism and religious consciousness, clairvoyance, and the ability to befriend powerful people.

Children with Venus in Scorpio are sensitive and easily hurt; at school, they are often outsiders due to their uniqueness and may seek cruel revenge on their enemies. Given their attraction to questionable company and early interest in sexuality, it is important to help them sublimate their intense energy through sports and creative pursuits.

Venus in Women and Men

A woman with this planetary position senses her own sexuality early on, but is often embarrassed by the effect she has on others, preferring to wear closed clothing that nonetheless hugs her striking figure. A Venus-in-Scorpio native chooses velvet, leather, and silk in black or deep, rich tones. She has a piercing gaze, straight hair, and a daring curve to her thin lips, often highlighted with scarlet lipstick.

Plutonian influence is expressed through an interest in piercings, tattoos, and plastic surgery. She often teases and torments her enamored admirers, or she falls for strange and dangerous men: criminals, magicians, law enforcement officers, soldiers—those with a proclivity for violence, alcohol, risk, or simply those who are married—anything to experience burning passions from unattainable happiness and to overcome obstacles. Intuitively, she chooses a partner with Mars and Pluto in Scorpio, although she would find more peace with Mars in Capricorn, Taurus, or Cancer.

A man with Venus in Scorpio, at a low level of development, uses power, fear, and destruction to dominate in relationships, or chooses a woman with similar tendencies—one who torments his heart and arouses secret, daring sexual fantasies.

Symbolically dying and being reborn in the throes of passion, he realizes the potential of Venus in Scorpio, beginning to create and work productively. Having achieved mutual love, the native demands absolute loyalty and submission from his beloved. Despite his aura of strength and dominance, he is painfully jealous and deeply wounded by betrayal, even though he himself finds it hard to refuse admirers in matters of sex.

He is drawn to femme fatales who stand out for their appearance or behavior—extravagant and mysterious, such as women with Venus in Scorpio, Cancer, Aquarius, or Pisces.

Key Aspects with Other Planets

A conjunction between Venus and Pluto makes the native magnetically attractive, but dependent on the torments of love, which must be consciously transformed into higher feelings by burning away the destructive layers of the psyche. Harmonious aspects with Mars bring high ideals of love and friendship, a desire to dominate in marriage, and a sense of responsibility for the partner. Difficult aspects, however, indicate a tendency to fall in love with dangerous people and, especially in a man’s chart, the risk of perishing because of a partner, as well as a predisposition to venereal diseases.

Additional Description

In matters of love, a person born with Venus in Scorpio craves deep, passionate, and intense relationships. The bonds you form are highly emotional and may even be possessive. You may be very jealous regarding those you love, and uncontrolled jealousy and possessiveness can destroy the relationships that mean so much to you. You have a tendency to “marry at all costs” when someone wins your heart. Scorpios find it difficult to give up on their partner for any reason. You also have very high standards for your partners.

You are suspicious even of platonic and friendly connections your partner maintains. Once you have experienced betrayal, you are capable of hating with the same intensity with which you once loved. You are attracted to people shrouded in mystery and secrecy. At the same time, you possess captivating charm and personal allure, and while your feelings are often very serious, you may have trouble expressing them. Once burned, Scorpios never give a second chance. All or nothing—that’s their relationship philosophy.

People with Venus in Scorpio can be deeply religious, which may help channel their excess emotions. You need to learn the value of self-control. Misuse of creative power in previous lives compels you to once again confront matters of sex, passion, desire, and rebirth. This attitude toward life stimulates your creativity and brings passion, inequality, and intense attachments in love.  ✓