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Venus sign compatibility: how you both love
Your Sun sign is the headline. Venus is the fine print about romance: what you find beautiful, how you flirt and what makes you feel loved. Find yours from a birth date, then hold it up against anyone's.
Photo: Bonnie Moreland / Negative Space
At a glance
Venus sign compatibility compares where Venus was at two births. Same-sign and same-element (trine) Venuses love most alike; squares bring friction and heat.
- Venus right now
- Libra (retrograde)until Dec 4, then Scorpio
- Birth date alone works
- 96.5% of daysVenus changed sign on 3.47% of dates, 1926-2025
- Venus in your Sun sign
- 23.6% of peoplemost people's Venus is in another sign
- Farthest from the Sun
- 47.2°so only 5 Venus signs per Sun sign
- Same Venus 8 years on
- 97.3% of datesVenus's 8-year cycle
Calculate your Venus signBirth date is enough; add a time only if the tool asks.
The short version
What your Venus sign actually says
Try this today
- Enter your birth date in the calculator below. No birth time needed on most days.
- Read your Venus sign's love style, then ask a friend who has seen you date whether it fits.
- Pick your Sun sign below to see your five possible Venus signs and how common each one is.
Venus sign for an AriesVenus sign for a TaurusVenus sign for a GeminiVenus sign for a CancerVenus sign for a LeoVenus sign for a VirgoVenus sign for a LibraVenus sign for a ScorpioVenus sign for a SagittariusVenus sign for a CapricornVenus sign for an AquariusVenus sign for a Pisces
You know your Sun sign. It is the one on the mug. Your Venus sign is quieter and, in love, a lot more specific: it is the zodiac sign the planet Venus was passing through on the day you were born.
Astrologers read Venus as your love language and your taste. It describes what you find attractive, how you flirt, what makes you feel cared for and what you value in a partner. That is why two people with the same Sun sign can date completely differently. One Scorpio wants intensity from the first text. Another, with Venus in Sagittarius, wants jokes and a road trip.
Here is the part most sites skip. Venus orbits inside Earth's orbit, so from here it never wanders more than about 47° from the Sun. That means your Venus is always within two signs of your Sun sign: five possible Venus signs for every Sun sign, never twelve. Only 23.6% of people have Venus in the same sign as their Sun, so if you have been reading Sun-sign love advice and it never quite fit, this may be why.
The sky behind it
Computed from NASA JPL's DE442 ephemeris: geocentric apparent positions, tropical zodiac. The widest Sun-Venus separation found on any day from 1926 to 2025 was 47.2°.
How the match works
How Venus sign compatibility is worked out
Try this today
- Find your pair in the grid below and read it together. Mark one line each that feels true.
- If you are a square, name the friction out loud: "you show love by planning, I show it by touching base."
- Look at Venus and Mars together too: Venus is what you want, Mars is how you go after it.
Venus compatibility uses the oldest rule in astrology: the angle between two signs on the 12-sign wheel. Ptolemy set it out in the second century in the Tetrabiblos (Book I, chapters 13 to 16), and modern astrologers still use it for synastry, the comparison of two charts.
Trine (four signs apart) and same sign: both Venuses share an element (fire, earth, air or water), so you want love in similar ways. Easy flow. Sextile (two apart): compatible elements, fire with air or earth with water. Friendly spark. Opposition (six apart): the magnetic pull of opposites. Square (three apart): same pace, clashing element, which astrologers read as friction and chemistry together.
Signs one or five apart get no aspect at all in Ptolemy, who called them "disjunct". In love terms, you speak different languages and need to translate.
None of this is a pass or fail. A square Venus pair that talks things through can outlast an easy trine on autopilot. Treat the grid as a conversation starter, not a verdict.
The sky behind it
Pairs by distance on the wheel: same sign same love language; 4 apart trine; 2 apart sextile; 6 apart opposition; 3 apart square; 1 or 5 apart, no classical aspect.
Why a date is enough
Your birth date is enough, almost every time
Try this today
- Born on a switch day? Check your birth certificate for the time, then add it to the calculator.
- Ask an older relative for their birth date and see if they were born during a Venus retrograde. The calculator flags it.
Most Venus calculators ask for your birth time and place. For the Moon or your rising sign you really need them. For Venus you mostly do not: it never moves much more than a degree and a quarter a day, and spends weeks in each sign.
We checked every day from 1926 to 2025, 36,525 of them. Venus changed sign on 1,269 dates (3.47%). On every other date (counted in UTC), Venus held one sign all day long. The calculator checks your own local day, shows you the moment Venus moved in your time zone if it did, and only then asks for a birth time.
Venus also turns retrograde for about six weeks every 19 months, 63 times in that century. While it backs up it can linger in one sign for four months, which is why Venus does not spend equal time in every sign. Over the hundred years it was in Aries 9.76% of the time and in Libra only 7.13%.
The sky behind it
Switch times are the ingress moments, found by root-solving the sign boundary in the DE442 ephemeris and rounded to the minute (UTC). We spot-checked them against Cafe Astrology's tables: Venus enters Libra on August 6, 2026 at 3:12 pm EDT there (19:12 UTC; ours 19:13 UTC), and turns direct on November 13, 2026 at 7:27 pm EST at 22°52′ Libra (ours: November 14, 2026, 00:27 UTC at 22°52′ Libra).
Your Sun, your odds
What is my Venus sign if I'm a Scorpio (or any other sign)?
Aries: most often Venus in AriesTaurus: most often Venus in AriesGemini: most often Venus in CancerCancer: most often Venus in GeminiLeo: most often Venus in VirgoVirgo: most often Venus in LeoLibra: most often Venus in ScorpioScorpio: most often Venus in ScorpioSagittarius: most often Venus in ScorpioCapricorn: most often Venus in AquariusAquarius: most often Venus in CapricornPisces: most often Venus in Aries
Because Venus hugs the Sun, every Sun sign has five possible Venus signs, and they are not equally likely. We counted every day for a hundred years.
Take the most searched one. If you are a Scorpio, your Venus is in Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius or Capricorn. Scorpio is the most common at 28.9%, with Sagittarius 26%, Libra 24.9%, Virgo 10.1%, Capricorn 10%. And if your Scorpio was born in 2026, the answer is usually Libra, because Venus was retrograde through most of that season.
The table further down gives the odds for all twelve Sun signs, and each sign's own page lists, year by year, which Venus sign covered that season since 1960. It is the fastest way to answer "what is my Venus sign" if you know your birth year but not much else.
Beyond Venus
Venus is one piece. Here is what else matters
Try this today
- Run your Moon signs through the moon sign compatibility calculator and compare the two answers.
- Build a composite chart to see the relationship as one chart.
Moon sign compatibility calculatorComposite chart calculatorSynastry house overlays
A Venus match is a lovely shortcut, and it is still a shortcut. When astrologers compare two charts they also look at Mars (desire and how you pursue), the Moon (emotional needs and comfort), Saturn (commitment and staying power) and the 7th house, the traditional house of partnership.
A classic pairing to look for is one person's Venus in the same sign as the other's Mars: astrologers read it as easy physical chemistry. One person's Venus touching the other's Moon reads as tenderness. And the composite chart, a midpoint chart of the two of you, describes the relationship as its own thing.
If your Venus signs square each other but your Moons trine, you probably already know the feeling: you argue about date night and agree about everything that matters.
Calculator
Venus sign calculator, for two
Enter your birth date, and a partner's or crush's if you like. You will get each Venus sign, flagged if Venus changed sign that day, then your pairing. Below it, every one of the 144 Venus pairings in one grid. Everything runs in your browser from a DE442 table covering 1920 to 2035.
Every Venus pairing at once
Rows are your Venus, columns are theirs. Tap or arrow through any square for the read. The shading follows Ptolemy’s aspects between the two signs, the oldest rule astrologers use for this.
- Same sign
- Trine
- Sextile
- Opposition
- Square
- No classical aspect
Trine · Easy flow
Venus in Libra + Venus in Aquarius
Venus in Libra wants fairness, charm and a real partner; Venus in Aquarius wants a best friend who respects their independence. Same element, different flavour. Your ideas of romance agree on the basics, so affection lands without effort. Easy can drift into autopilot, so keep surprising each other. Two air Venuses: the conversation is the romance, and space is never taken personally.
Libra Venus: harmony, beauty, partnership. Aquarius Venus: friendship first, originality, space. The Venus signs a Libra Sun can have
More to read
Shorter reads. Each opens in place.
Venus right now
Where Venus is today
Venus is in Libra and retrograde until December 4, 2026, when it moves into Scorpio. It stationed retrograde at 8°29′ Scorpio on October 3, 2026 and turns direct at 22°52′ Libra on November 14, 2026. Babies born today have Venus in Libra: harmony, beauty, partnership.
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The old rules
Where tradition says Venus is strongest
Ptolemy gives Venus two homes, Taurus and Libra, and its exaltation in Pisces. Later tradition calls the opposite signs its detriment (Scorpio, Aries) and fall (Virgo). Modern astrologers read these as styles, not grades: a Venus in Scorpio loves intensely, not badly. 6 of the twelve signs carry a traditional label for Venus.
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Venus twins
Born 8 years apart? Same Venus, probably
Venus goes round the Sun 13 times in almost exactly 8 Earth years, so its path through the zodiac repeats. On 97.3% of dates, Venus was in the same sign on the same date 8 years later. If you share a birthday with a sibling born 8 years apart, you likely share a Venus sign too.
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Venus sign odds, computed
Share of birthdays with each Venus sign, by Sun sign: one sample per day at 12:00 UTC, 1926-01-01 to 2025-12-31 (36,525 days). Then the next Venus sign changes.
| Sun sign | Two behind | One behind | Same sign | One ahead | Two ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | Aquarius 10.2% | Pisces 26% | Aries 28.3% | Taurus 26.3% | Gemini 9.1% |
| Taurus | Pisces 7.8% | Aries 34.1% | Taurus 20.3% | Gemini 29.8% | Cancer 7.9% |
| Gemini | Aries 10.5% | Taurus 26.3% | Gemini 25.8% | Cancer 29% | Leo 8.4% |
| Cancer | Taurus 7.9% | Gemini 33.6% | Cancer 21.6% | Leo 27.8% | Virgo 9.1% |
| Leo | Gemini 9.6% | Cancer 27.7% | Leo 22.7% | Virgo 32.6% | Libra 7.4% |
| Virgo | Cancer 8.4% | Leo 30.4% | Virgo 25.8% | Libra 25.3% | Scorpio 10% |
| Libra | Leo 8.6% | Virgo 30.6% | Libra 20.3% | Scorpio 32.8% | Sagittarius 7.7% |
| Scorpio | Virgo 10.1% | Libra 24.9% | Scorpio 28.9% | Sagittarius 26% | Capricorn 10% |
| Sagittarius | Libra 7.8% | Scorpio 33% | Sagittarius 20.7% | Capricorn 28.5% | Aquarius 10% |
| Capricorn | Scorpio 10.8% | Sagittarius 25.4% | Capricorn 23.1% | Aquarius 32.2% | Pisces 8.6% |
| Aquarius | Sagittarius 8.6% | Capricorn 29.8% | Aquarius 25.7% | Pisces 25% | Aries 10.9% |
| Pisces | Capricorn 8.7% | Aquarius 30.8% | Pisces 19.9% | Aries 33.2% | Taurus 7.4% |
| Venus sign | Share of days | Love style in a phrase |
|---|---|---|
| Aries | 9.76% | the chase, honesty, a spark |
| Taurus | 7.46% | touch, loyalty, slow comfort |
| Gemini | 9.22% | banter, curiosity, variety |
| Cancer | 8.11% | care, home, being needed |
| Leo | 8.34% | devotion, romance, being adored |
| Virgo | 9.13% | acts of service, thoughtfulness |
| Libra | 7.13% | harmony, beauty, partnership |
| Scorpio | 9.47% | depth, intensity, trust |
| Sagittarius | 7.2% | freedom, adventure, laughter |
| Capricorn | 8.11% | commitment, effort, the long game |
| Aquarius | 8.87% | friendship first, originality, space |
| Pisces | 7.18% | tenderness, imagination, devotion |
| When (UTC) | Venus enters | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| December 4, 2026, 08:13 UTC | Scorpio | direct |
| January 7, 2027, 08:53 UTC | Sagittarius | direct |
| February 3, 2027, 14:31 UTC | Capricorn | direct |
| March 1, 2027, 06:32 UTC | Aquarius | direct |
| March 26, 2027, 08:17 UTC | Pisces | direct |
| April 20, 2027, 03:57 UTC | Aries | direct |
| May 14, 2027, 21:01 UTC | Taurus | direct |
| June 8, 2027, 12:33 UTC | Gemini | direct |
All times are UTC. In the Americas the local date can be a day earlier; in Asia and Australia a day later.
Quick answers
What is my Venus sign?
It is the zodiac sign Venus was in when you were born. Enter your birth date in the calculator above: on 96.5% of dates that is all it needs. If Venus changed sign on your birthday, the tool shows both options and the switch time so your birth time can settle it.
How do I calculate my Venus sign without a birth time?
Use your birth date alone. Venus spends weeks in each sign, so it only changed sign on 3.47% of the days from 1926 to 2025. On any other day, Venus held one sign from midnight to midnight, so the date alone gives the answer.
What is my Venus sign if I'm a Scorpio?
Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius or Capricorn. In our hundred-year count the shares are Virgo 10.1%, Libra 24.9%, Scorpio 28.9%, Sagittarius 26%, Capricorn 10%. Most Scorpios born in 2026 have Venus in Libra, because Venus was retrograde through that season.
Which Venus signs are most compatible?
Astrologers usually rank same-sign and trine pairs (same element) as the easiest, then sextiles (fire with air, earth with water), then the opposition. Squares are the high-friction, high-chemistry pairs. It is a starting point for conversation, not a verdict.
Is Venus compatibility more important than Sun sign compatibility?
For romance, many astrologers weigh Venus (and Mars and the Moon) more heavily than the Sun, because Venus describes affection and attraction specifically. Most compare several placements together rather than any single one.
Can my Venus sign be the opposite of my Sun sign?
No. Venus never gets more than about 47° from the Sun as seen from Earth, so it is always within two signs of your Sun sign.
What does it mean if Venus was retrograde when I was born?
Venus was retrograde 63 times between 1926 and 2025, for about six weeks each time. Astrologers read a natal Venus retrograde as a reflective, revisit-the-past style of love. The calculator above flags it.
What is Venus in 2026 and 2027?
Venus was retrograde from October 3, 2026 (8°29′ Scorpio) to November 14, 2026 (22°52′ Libra). The next sign changes are in the table above, computed to the minute.
