In these texts, A is the person whose Sun is read and B the person whose Venus receives it.
Venus represents the way we give and receive affection, physical closeness, sensuality, charm and enjoyment. It is also associated with excess and with an attraction or a rejection that doesn’t always pass through reason.
Facilitating contact
B perceives a special radiance or appeal in A. There is a wish for physical closeness and ease in being together. Contact feels pleasant.
Obstructing contact
Disinterest, distance or an initial rejection may appear. Its intensity depends on the other factors of the synastry. Other elements of attraction can help overcome that first reaction.
If there are no favorable aspects involving Venus, the system reads a greater difficulty in physical affinity, even if there is common ground in other areas. That difficulty is observed in the couple’s real experience, without turning it into an automatic conclusion.
Aspects of the Sun
The Sun represents personal radiance, the way we defend our own territory and the conditions under which we allow other people to come close. It relates to behaviors we feel are our own, even when we don’t recognize having learned them from those around us.
Sometimes a family is surprised by a reaction and wonders where that way of acting came from. That surprise invites us to look at what we need in order to let someone into our space, why we find it easy to approach certain people and why other presences feel threatening. It also lets us ask ourselves how others perceive us.
When the traits of the Sun match what was learned in inventory 1, their expression may feel more natural. If they differ from what the family or the culture expects, we may try to resemble an image we don’t feel is our own. In that search for acceptance, the “masks” we have spoken about appear.
In your love relationship that question comes back: how much room you have to show yourself as you are, and how much you feel you must play a role in order to be accepted.
The intensity of the following aspects is read together with the other factors of the synastry, which can reinforce or moderate how they show up.