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Venus Williams

Venus Williams (born June 17, 1980, Lynwood, United States, 14:12), aged 46, is an American tennis player (born 1980). Williams has played for United States Billie Jean King Cup team. Williams's honours include Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, NAACP Image Award – President's Award and Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award.

Venus Williams’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Venus Williams’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Venus in the U.S.?

#2001

US rank in 2025

~10,057

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Venus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Venus apart

KJ Apa (1997) and Barry Manilow (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Venus, according to the stars

Core essence

Venus is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Venus needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Venus needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Venus needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Venus wants to be loved

Venus wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Venus like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Venus creates

How Venus makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Venus creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Venus is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Venus is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Venus channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Venus's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Venus sits

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Venus’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Venus

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Venus

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Venus

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Venus

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Venus

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Venus

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Venus Williams at a glance

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Venus Williams's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Metal Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Venus Williams was born on June 17, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Venus Williams's birth date, June 17, 1980, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Venus’s chart

Venus’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.2° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.6° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2° orbSun in Gemini · 26°48′ · house 9☉26°Moon in Leo · 27°40′ · house 11☽27°Mercury in Cancer · 20°57′ · house 10☿20°Venus in Gemini · 22°44′ · house 9 · retrograde♀℞22°Mars in Virgo · 17°56′ · house 12♂17°Jupiter in Virgo · 4°06′ · house 12♃4°Saturn in Virgo · 20°47′ · house 12♄20°Uranus in Scorpio · 22°13′ · house 2 · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Sagittarius · 21°09′ · house 3 · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Libra · 19°00′ · house 1 · retrograde♇℞19°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLib 13°33′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAri 13°33′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCnc 14°48′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCap 14°48′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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AscendantLibra
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercurysextileSaturnseparating · 0.2° orb

    Venus’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 0.4° orb

    Venus’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • SunsextileMoonseparating · 0.9° orb

    Venus’s core identity opens doors for their feelings.

  • MercurytrineUranusapplying · 1.3° orb

    Venus’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 1.4° orb

    Venus’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • VenusoppositionNeptuneapplying · 1.6° orb

    Venus’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 2.0° orb

    Venus’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • VenussquareSaturnapplying · 2.0° orb

    Venus’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.1° orb

    Venus’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MarsconjunctionSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb

    Venus’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • MercurysextileMarsseparating · 3.0° orb

    Venus’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 3.2° orb

    Venus’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • VenustrinePlutoapplying · 3.7° orb

    Venus’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 4.1° orb

    Venus’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MarssextileUranusapplying · 4.3° orb

    Venus’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenussquareMarsapplying · 4.8° orb

    Venus’s affections grind against their drive.

  • MoonsextileVenusseparating · 4.9° orb

    Venus’s feelings open doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MoonsquareUranusseparating · 5.4° orb

    Venus’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.

  • SunoppositionNeptuneseparating · 5.7° orb

    Venus’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • SunsquareSaturnseparating · 6.0° orb

    Venus’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MoonconjunctionJupiterapplying · 6.4° orb

    Venus’s feelings and growth act as one.

  • MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 6.5° orb

    Venus’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Venus’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 16°22′ · House 8

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Venus building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 10°03′ · House 9

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Venus feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosLeo 5°55′ · House 11

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Venus loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 17°33′ · House 8

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Venus is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°19′ · House 1

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Venus that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Hygiea trine Mars 0.4°
  • Chiron trine Mars 1.6°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Venus’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury14 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Pluto; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Venus is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Venus’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Sun, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.

  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.1°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.2°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.5°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.9°

Venus’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LibraVenus in Gemini, house 9Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 1Uranusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 12Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4CapricornSaturn in Virgo, house 12emptyhome, family, roots
5AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 2emptycreativity, romance, play
6PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 3emptywork, habits, health
7AriesMars in Virgo, house 12emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8TaurusVenus in Gemini, house 9emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9GeminiMercury in Cancer, house 10Sun, Venusbelief, travel, higher learning
10CancerMoon in Leo, house 11Mercurycareer, reputation, public life
11LeoSun in Gemini, house 9Moonfriends, community, the future
12VirgoMercury in Cancer, house 10Mars, Jupiter, Saturnthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Venus’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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The Gilded Explorer

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Venus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11578, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Tatiana from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Venus Williams at Wikipedia, wasiatofficial.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

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Quick answers about Venus Williams’s chart

How old is Venus Williams?
Venus Williams is 46 years old, born June 17, 1980 in Lynwood, United States.
What zodiac sign is Venus Williams?
Venus Williams is a Gemini: born June 17, 1980, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey.
What is Venus Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 17, 1980 birth.
What time was Venus Williams born?
14:12 local time in Lynwood, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Venus Williams's rising sign?
Libra rising, calculated from the documented 14:12 birth time in Lynwood, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Venus Williams?
Venus Williams is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Venus Williams's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 17, 1980 birth date.
What is Venus Williams's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 16°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 17, 1980 birth time.
Where is Venus Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Venus Williams's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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