Venus and Mars Sign Compatibility

Venus sign compatibility compares how two people love, and Mars sign compatibility how they pursue; in synastry a Venus-Mars contact between two charts is the tradition's attraction contact, and one of the two this site's calculator weighs most.

From two birth dates, the birth chart compatibility calculator places Venus and Mars for both people and weighs every contact between them.

What is Venus sign compatibility?

Venus sign compatibility is the comparison of the sign Venus occupied in each person's birth chart. The tradition reads Venus as love, affection, harmony and beauty, so comparing two Venus signs is comparing how two people show affection and how they want to receive it. Venus love sign compatibility and Venus zodiac sign compatibility name the same comparison. It is one layer of synastry, the comparison of two whole charts.

It is a tradition, not a measurement. The best-known controlled test of astrology, published in Nature in 1985, found that astrologers could not match birth charts to personality profiles better than chance.

How does each Venus sign love?

Each row reads Venus through its sign's element and modality, so the table follows a rule you can check rather than a horoscope. Fire loves warmly and openly, earth through care and steadiness, air through talk and ideas, and water through closeness and feeling; cardinal signs make the first move, fixed signs stay constant, and mutable signs adapt.

Why is your Venus sign always close to your Sun sign?

Seen from Earth, Venus never strays more than about 47 degrees from the Sun, so your Venus sign is always your Sun sign or one of the two signs on either side of it. We checked this on the site's own ephemeris for every day from 1900 to 2099: the widest gap was 47.27 degrees. Mars has no such limit.

What is Mars sign compatibility?

Mars sign compatibility is the comparison of the sign Mars occupied in each birth chart. The tradition reads Mars as energy, courage, strength and ambition, so comparing two Mars signs is comparing how two people go after what they want and how they handle friction. Unlike Venus, Mars can sit in any sign, whatever the Sun sign.

How does each Mars sign pursue?

The same rule applies: fire pursues directly and fast, earth patiently, air by persuading, and water by instinct; cardinal signs start, fixed signs persist, and mutable signs change tack.

What do Venus-Mars contacts between two charts mean?

One person's Venus in aspect to the other's Mars is the tradition's attraction contact: the way one person loves meeting the way the other pursues. This site's calculator puts it in its heaviest class, alongside Sun to Moon. What it does not cover is emotional closeness over time, which the tradition reads from the Moon and which is explained under emotional fit by moon placement.

Venus to Venus is what each person values in love, and the calculator puts it in the next class down. Mars to Mars is two drives meeting, and it counts as a supporting contact, the lowest class, not a heavy one. Because Venus and Mars are both personal planets, a square or an opposition between them counts as friction, and a conjunction, sextile or trine as warm.

For the sun-sign view of intimacy rather than the chart view, see zodiac sexual compatibility.

Is there a Venus and Mars compatibility calculator?

Yes. The birth chart calculator finds both planets for both people, lists every contact between them that falls within its tolerance, and weighs each one by the classes above. It serves as the Mars Venus compatibility calculator, the Venus sign compatibility calculator and the Venus love sign calculator all at once. A Moon to Venus contact is scored too, as a supporting contact. The calculator reads the contacts; it does not predict what two people will feel.