The placement of Venus in Libra indicates that you have a strong need for relationship and a value system that is dominated by the importance of interpersonal interaction. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Libra are a result of your need to feel that you are in a harmonious and balanced relationship.
Venus is completely at home in Libra, as symbolized by its rulership over this sign. Libra is the Cardinal Air sign. This active air quality symbolically provides energy and freedom for social movement and communication. The Libran association with balance also epitomizes the essence of the evaluative function symbolized by Venus.
Venus also symbolizes the anima in the psyche. Thus, if you are female with Venus in Libra, you are likely to model your femininity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Libra. If you are male, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Libra-associated traits.
Insecurities
With Venus in Libra, when you are insecure about your own selfhood and your own values, you need the validation of others to support your ego and feel that you have some sense of self-worth. Consequently, so much time and energy is spent in cultivating your relationship(s), that you are dominated by your need for others. The all-important role of self in any relationship is lost. Having Venus in Libra, though you seek to enhance your self-worth by being in a relationship, the actual result of your dependency on the relationship and on your relationship partner(s) is that you lack basic self-confidence and self-esteem.
Venus in the 3rd House:
The function symbolized by Venus of evaluating perceptions and sensations is likely to be heightened with Venus in the 3rd House. You are likely to be particularly sensitive to your immediate surroundings and very much aware of what is around you. As an individual with Venus in the 3rd House, you may have strong or definite reactions to people and things in your environment, as you are likely to immediately judge whether something is good or pleasing as soon as its impression is received.
The emphasis suggested by Venus in the 3rd House is on the here and now and your interaction with and reaction to what is immediately occurring. You often may want to learn about your world by experiencing it, absorbing its impressions, taking it all in and then judging its worth. You may see much beauty in the world around you. Your focus is more likely to be external and you may not be given much to reflection or reevaluation. Once you has experienced and tasted a thing, you are often ready to move on to the next experience.
