All about Venus Part – 4
Venus in Cancer
Cancer is a movable, watery, feminine and fruitful sign.
Marriage, love and Sex: Venus is a planet of attraction and Cancer is the sign of growth together they make seductive melodies. The native becomes highly responsive to emotions. Thus they have a great need to be loved and to love. They are not the type to go chasing after love (Venus is royal and so sign cancer) or the companions whose company they enjoy. They always believe that love will come and so they wait and see. They aren’t impatient if love does not come today and wait for it in hope of it coming tomorrow. They accept love when offered. This position of Venus is indicative of strong family ties and wealth of feelings. Great value is attached to right kind of home life. Venus takes on a very maternal quality here even in men. The native is highly refined and his expression of love is couched in fine and emotional language. They work to make the nest as comfortable as soft and warm as humanly possible. Given time they are loyal and domesticated partners. Venus in this position is also characteristic for a love which is willing to make sacrifices which gives more than it receives. This situation makes one vulnerable to the machinations of loved who want to take advantage. As cancer represents the sign of masses and public and so this position of Venus may indicate several love affairs. He may have secret love affairs. The partner is often older, corresponding to the tendency to seek out a man in more mature years or a woman with some experience. This position indicates obstacles in marriage either due to partner or because of lack of fixed ideas. Marriage may also be delayed sometimes due to lack of finances or proper occupation. Marriage may be with a person of better social standing or to one previously married or to a foreigner. Union in a foreign country or during a journey or voyage is very much possible. According to Brihat Jatak, Venus in Cancer ruled by Moon, makes one bigomist mendicant and timid person, full of sexual passions and sorrow through it. Thus more than one marriage is sometimes indicated. There is a tender sympathetic affection and one might appear to care and cherish the loved one like a mother.
In a female chart, Venus in Moon’s sign produces a strong desire for marriage and motherhood. If because of affliction to Venus marriage doesn’t come early, there may illegitimate union. Very rarely there is a marriage without children under Venus in Cancer.
General and Sociological: In this position of Venus, it blends the characteristics of Venus with those of Moon and the psychic watery nature of Cancer. Therefore this position gives the person a very fruitful imagination and he or she is very apt to come in touch with inhabitants of unseen world or atleast take up some very devotional phase of religion. But this is very dangerous because Venus is negative and to avoid any super natural phenomenons, they should turn their affection to humanity and serve them with devotion. They have an abiding faith in the eternal life process that is said to provide everything with what it needs eventually. They are protective towards their near ones and bear a strong affection for mother. These people can be easily imposed upon aggressive personalities and can tear them to emotional shreds. Even when they become unhappy and sink into dispondency the motherly complex persists (it is because of negative Venus in cancer owned by Moon). Although naturally reserved they can become a popular public figure. Making money by leading in liquids is common. Lands and houses can be profitable. They have great ability in arts and occult, research and affairs of unseen world, favorable position for gains and acquisition of good conveyance and vehicles.
Affliction to Venus having a negative characteristic may make native liable to domination by spirit controls and dangers of mediumship. Normally it indicates connection with women placed low and bad name because of them. He may be reduced to miserable life because of cheating and deception and may resort to even asking for charity and loans. May be taken over by some fear and scare of unknown. Highly miserable and many reach to stage of lunacy. It all depends on the strength of affliction. May give delayed marriages and disappointments in love. Two wives, separation may occur due to partner’s lack of domesticity and his seeking relationships elsewhere.
Biological: Trouble in stomach, enlargement of stomach and tumor, thereof sugar, blood sugar, irregularity of menses, enlargement of breasts and vomitting etc.
Varāhamihira 