In these texts, A is the person whose Venus is read and B the person whose Ascendant receives it.
Here the Ascendant relates to the image and appearance a person projects, and to the way their partner perceives them.
Facilitating contact
There is a wish for physical closeness, which may grow as they share time. Both feel a certain emotional identification with their partner.
If there are no other favorable elements, this contact on its own may not be enough to sustain the bond. The attraction is read together with the other dimensions of the relationship.
Obstructing contact
Even if there are other points of attraction, A may criticize B’s appearance. Those remarks about their image affect B.
Aspects of Venus
Venus represents the way we give and receive affection, sensuality, charm and physical closeness. Its aspects are read in relation to the attraction, enjoyment or discomfort that another person’s closeness can awaken. As you read these descriptions, think about how you enjoy affection with your partner and how they like to receive it.
The intensity of that experience depends on the synastry as a whole and on the awareness with which both live the bond. Inventory 1 is also essential: family and cultural models influence how comfortable we feel with touch. Two people can feel attraction and have different needs for closeness.
Respecting your own boundaries and your partner’s allows closeness to become a shared discovery. No description of affinity replaces what each person wants or accepts at a given moment.