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Venus sign calculator
Your Venus sign is the zodiac sign Venus occupied at the moment you were born. In Western astrology it describes what you value and enjoy, how you show affection and what you find beautiful, and it is always your Sun sign or one of the two signs either side of it.
Your Venus sign is the zodiac sign Venus was in when you were born. Enter your birth date, time and place to get the sign, the exact degree, the house, and how far Venus sat from your Sun.
In Western astrology Venus describes what you value and enjoy, how you show affection, and what you find beautiful. It is read most often in love and friendship, but it also covers taste, money habits and the way you make peace.
Venus never strays more than about 47° from the Sun as seen from Earth, so your Venus sign is your Sun sign or one of the two signs on either side of it. Which of those five it is depends on the year you were born, which is why a birthday alone cannot tell you. Venus usually spends about a month in a sign, but in a retrograde year it can stay in one sign for about four months.
How it is computed
Venus's geocentric longitude is computed from the JPL DE442 ephemeris for your birth instant, then placed in the Tropical zodiac and, with a birth time, in its Placidus house. The distance from the Sun is the difference between the two longitudes; east of the Sun means Venus set after it, in the evening sky.
Venus moves at most about a degree and a quarter a day, so the birth time only changes the sign if Venus crossed a sign boundary on your birth date. If you leave the time out, the calculator uses noon and tells you whether that happened and roughly when.
Common questions
- What is my Venus sign if I don't know my birth time?
- In almost every case it is still exact. Venus covers at most about a degree and a quarter a day, so it changes sign on only a few days a year. With the time unknown the calculator uses noon and says so if Venus changed sign on your birth date.
- Why is my Venus sign different from my Sun sign?
- Venus and the Sun are separate bodies. Seen from Earth, Venus can sit up to about 47° from the Sun, so it is often one or two signs ahead of or behind it. Your Venus sign can only be your Sun sign or one of the two signs either side.
- What does it mean if Venus was retrograde when I was born?
- Venus appears to move backward for about six weeks every nineteen months or so. Astrologers read a retrograde natal Venus as values and affections that are worked out inwardly and revised over time rather than taken from the people around you.
- Which Venus signs are strongest?
- In traditional astrology Venus is at home in Taurus and Libra, the signs it rules, and exalted in Pisces. It is in detriment in Scorpio and Aries and in fall in Virgo. These labels describe how easily Venus works in a sign, not whether the person is lucky in love.
- How accurate is this calculator?
- Positions come from NASA JPL's DE442 ephemeris via Skyfield. In a published check of 870 positions against the Swiss Ephemeris, the median difference was 0.17 arcseconds and the largest was 26.7 arcseconds, under half an arc-minute; the two never disagreed on a zodiac sign or a whole degree. That check compared planet positions, not house cusps: your Ascendant and houses depend on your birth time and place, and a birth time a few minutes off matters far more than the ephemeris. The method and the full data table are in our ephemeris accuracy study.
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Positions are computed from the JPL DE442 ephemeris in the Tropical zodiac with Placidus houses. Readings are educational, drafted from the computed factors and edited by the Shymea team; they are not the work of a named practising astrologer and are not medical, legal or financial advice. See the editorial policy.
