The Planet Venus also rules Libra as well as Taurus.

The position of Venus when you are born will affect you and your expression of love with others in your future. It will show how you express love for others and the things that you will love and take pleasure in.

Venus in Libra it means that you are fairly easy going and usually on the ball with good communication skills. You will be a fair person and like dressing up.

Some famous people who have Venus as their ruling sign were:

Pablo Picasso

Prince Charles

Sean Connery

Richard Gere

They usually have sparkling personalities and a zest for life with drive and ambition.

They like to feel free and not constricted in their lives.

They tend to be true romantics and make loving partners and enjoy a calm atmosphere. They tend to be passionate in the bedroom!! They also like luxury.

They have a style of their own and are able to put people at ease and can be quite witty and quick of the mark mentally.

The Planet Venus was named after the Roman goddess of love, probably because it shines so much and stands out in the night sky.

It is the only Planet that is named after a female.

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is the second brightest in the sky after the Moon.

It orbits the Sun every 224,7 Earth days compared to the Earth’s 365 days.

Venus has the longest rotation period of any planet in the Solar System and it rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets too.

It does not have any natural satellites.

It is the second largest terrestrial planet and some people refer to it as the Earth’s sister planet as they have a similar size and mass.

It is 108.2 million km from the Sun.

It has 460.2 million km surface area.

The thick clouds on Venus reflect most of the sunlight that reaches it back into space, that is why it is so bright and because it is the brightest it can be seen by the naked eye often a few hours after sunset or before sunrise.

Venus has a central iron core and rocky mantle; it is a similar composition to the Earth. However its atmosphere is 96 per cent carbon dioxide and 3 per cent nitrogen and other gases.

It was formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago, when the solar system was a cloud of dusts and gases.

The inner core formed first like the Earth and then other elements formed a crust over the years.

The surface of Venus has its own unique geology and has large meteor craters, volcanoes, erosion’s and also some sedimentation land forms. However these have been smoothed somewhat by lava flows and by the corrosive atmosphere.

In Astrology, Venus rules Taurus which brings love, friendship and all the things that make life worthwhile.