With Venus in the 10th house of ambitious goals, you may be interested in careers that favor the arts, counseling, diplomacy, or design. In fact, you want to be recognized for your beauty, financial skills, artistic gifts, diplomatic talents or loving nature. You want to contribute something positive and loving to the world, and so lots of pleasure is derived from your career or professional life.
This placement plays a large factor in your universe, especially when it gives you a good reputation for being supportive and co-operative of team efforts. Venus in this position will enable you to establish an immediate rapport with others. A gift of yours is knowing how to turn on the charm in public situations and so you’re exceedingly talented at making and maintaining contacts. People skills and the ability to socialize with those of influence help benefit you in climbing the social ladder of success.
Venus in the 10th house signifies that love and harmony are directed towards your ambitions, but the other side of Venus may show jealousy and rivalry. It often describes a loving relationship with the mother and she may be viewed as the beloved and attractive one. In some cases, though, a daughter may have felt that she was in competition with her mother. Attracting career opportunities easily, you like to be admired in your chosen vocation and sometimes the vocational choice has something to do with the female sex or help and support may come through them.
A great contentment is found in your career and you value your social image, for this placement represents a love and respect for structure and establishment. The Midheaven is the most elevated part of the horoscope and so with Venus here you will often be considered popular in your public life, and you may be well liked by authority figures and have a good reputation in all of your business associations. Traditional textbooks state that you marry above your station in life. Venus here is often attracted to partners who are accomplished in some way, older or more established, and marriage and career are closely shared.
The 10th house is concerned with honor, profession, and achievement in life. It is one of the most important angles in the natal chart. Public relationships are significant in your world, and this house determines your motivation and pushes for a successful career. A harmonious working life is desired, but the aspects need to be examined to see how easily this can be achieved. Sometimes it will describe what you will do career-wise, alternatively, it may signify how you approach and move towards your vocation. Most importantly, with Venus here, it is considered one of the best indicators of being rich, well-to-do, moneyed, and affluent.