When Venus enters Taurus this week, these 3 signs should trust in lust

On Friday, June 6, Venus, our planet of attraction, attachment and aesthetics, is trading the flaming codpiece of Aries for the brocade bathrobe of Taurus.

Venus will loll around in these pleasured pastures until July 4.

Named for the Roman goddess of love and fertility, Venus is the fine, divine feminine counterpart to aggro jockstrap warlord Mars.

According to myth, Venus was born from sea foam and the severed member of Uranus, emerging fully formed and boobs busting out in a scallop shell — with pleasure as her governing principle.

Venus in Taurus 2025

As the planetary ruler of Taurus, this transit is Venus coming home and basking in the typical and the tactile.

Here in the herd, the planet of love is rapturously incarnated.

Earth is luscious, movement is languid, the body is an altar — and in lust we trust.

Those born with Venus in Taurus are natural-born hedonists. The inclination here is to revel in the pleasures of the animal body; consuming and consumating are the orders of the day.

If Venus in Taurus were a fabric, it would be velvet.

Meaning of Venus in Taurus

If Venus in Taurus were a sexual position, it would be 69, because everyone gets to feel good while lying down.

Venus in Taurus wants the delicious and the dependable, something or someone steadfast, cash, and/or a fairy tale ending.

In turn, this transit makes us hungry for the stable and the sensual: a devoted lover, a piece of fruit ripe and warm from the vine, a fistful of wildflowers, a lavish meal, an unhurried afternoon.

For the video embodiment of Venus in Taurus, see the recording of “Rich Girl,” performed by Hall and Oates circa 1977.

In terms of aesthetics, Venus in Taurus is tactile luxury, statuary-inspired silhouettes, and a general invocation of a Renaissance painting. For evidence, see Venus in Taurus natives Lana Del Rey, Princess Diana, Deborah Harry and Megan Fox.

The great lesson of Taurus is that pleasure cannot exist without presence.

In the ugly, capitalist, “more” motivated world in which we live and toil, pleasure is often cheapened to a quick thrill and disappearing dopamine; in other words, fast food and a swipe right.

In velvet revolt, Venus in Taurus refuses to rush what feels good, as it’s not waiting for what’s next or distracted by what’s been — it’s hungry for right now and exactly what it already has.

The underbelly of the Venusian bull is indulgence that begets inertia and desire that becomes polluted by possessiveness.

We cross this threshold when we move from wanting to hold to needing to own.

Venus in Taurus calls to mind the image of the horned Egyptian goddess Hathor, patron saint of fertility, joy, dancing, drunkenness, and above all, gratitude for what gratifies. With this in mind, we are all called to not only take what we need but to honor the source of its delivery, be it the body of another or the earth itself.

While we’ll all be under the influence of this decadent transit, three signs will feel the effects most acutely.

Read for your sun and rising sign.

Venus has come home to your first of the self, Taurus.

A wise friend shared with me her philosophy that, as humans, we are meant to consciously create, not unconsciously consume, and when we lean into the latter, we are not only starved of the meat of what matters, but destined for depression.

As an embodied earth sign, a child of Venus, and ruler of the second house of values and valuables, this transit is here to remind you that the process of making is endlessly more nourishing than the state of having.

You love hard and hold tight, Scorpio, preferring suffering to severance.

Yet, Venus in Taurus asks you to imagine that relationships can and should be a joyful pursuit, that devotion is not measured in sacrifices made but pleasure exchanged.

In this sense, every disaster that has befallen you, every fissure in your delicate heart, has brought you to the brink of right now and the knowledge that love is not a thing to hold or be held down by, but a constant resource for renewal.

Ahoy, Sagittarius!

In his poem “The Body,” Charles Simic writes of the body as if it were a shore to be explored:

This last continent

Still to be discovered.

My hand is dreaming, is building

Its ship. For crew it takes

A pack of bones, for food

A beer-bottle full of blood.

It knows the breath that blows north.

With the breath from the west

It will sail east each night.

The scent of your body as it sleeps

Are the land-birds sighted at sea.

My touch is on the highest mast.

It cries at four in the morning

For a lantern to be lit

On the rim of the world.

As Venus in Taurus turns the lovelight on your sixth house of ritual, self-care and the body, I implore you to think of the latter, and the other, as a continent unto itself and devote yourself with a poet’s ardor to your own edges.

Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.