ALMUTEMVenus in Virgo
Venus represents what you love, what gives you pleasure and the things you value. In Virgo, it expresses itself with an eye for detail and a practical streak.
Venus is in its fall in Virgo — a mutable earth sign ruled by Mercury —, its essential debility: the lady of pleasure and surrender falls in the sign of criticism and detail, and affection is held hostage to analysis. The critical, perfectionist gaze seeks beauty in the particular and in the exact harmony of things, with great trust in its methods and a keen sense of what is right or wrong — but it grows too demanding with itself and with those it loves. The fall is felt in never finding oneself worthy of love, or in undoing by criticism what affection builds. It pursues a kind of permanent youth and perfection, until it understands, with humility, the natural cycles of all that blooms and fades. Its redemption is the love that serves: discreet, dedicated, that shows tenderness in care more than in word.