☌ Conjunction
Venus conjunction Mars
Wanting and pursuing are one. Read as magnetism, as strong physical presence, and as a person for whom attraction and action are not separable.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ♀ ♂
What these two are about together
Attraction and drive. The classical pairing for desire, and for the difference between wanting something and going after it.
What a conjunction does
A conjunction is the tightest relationship in a chart: two planets sitting at effectively the same point in the zodiac, rising, setting and moving together. The tradition does not read it as good or bad on its own. It reads it as fusion. Whatever the two planets each govern stops being two separate concerns and starts being one, and it is often the placement a person is least able to see in themselves, because there is no distance from which to look at it.
How it reads
Wanting and pursuing are one. Read as magnetism, as strong physical presence, and as a person for whom attraction and action are not separable.
In practice
Strongest of the five, and the most dependent on which two bodies are involved. A conjunction of two comfortable planets is usually experienced as a natural talent; a conjunction of two difficult ones is usually experienced as a single unavoidable subject that keeps coming round.
What to watch for
The absence of separation. Whatever these two do, they do at once, which makes it hard to tell which of the two is driving.
The two planets
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Venus and Mars at other angles
- Venus semi-sextile MarsThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square MarsForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile MarsSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile MarsSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square MarsNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine MarsA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate MarsA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx MarsA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition MarsDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Venus and Mars actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.