With Venus in Scorpio your needs in love and in your intimate relationships (Venus) are intensity, depth, catharsis, power, personal growth, and transformation (Scorpio), but you have difficulty being an equal or sharing power with intimates. You know how you to use your intense relationships to further your own ends and to get what you want. Thus you may frequently change and refine your relationships, but also discard them when they no longer serve your purpose. You love to get deep under the surface of things and explore the mysterious and the unknown. You can be manipulative, but mask your selfishness with an outwardly friendly manner. Your love life, and intimate relationships are often an arena in which power, control and manipulation are played out. Your karma in this life is tied with self-will and love. In general, your personal values and your conception of love need to evolve and be transformed.

You're extremely magnetic to the opposite sex and very passionate, yet may be inhibited as well. If true, don't you be taken in by your intense sexuality: this persona may be covering up unconscious elements in your psyche you have yet to deal with. You feel a need to control your intimate partners, and have difficulty relating to them on an equal level. When someone gets close to you, you can become fearful of compromise and cooperation because they entail an element of letting go of the control with which you feel you need to protect yourself. Therapy, particularly a body-oriented kind, would be ideal to help you become more conscious of these childhood patterns. Once aware and independent of them, your self-work can release you to be a guiding light to others.

Some famous people with Venus in Scorpio are Ed Asner (Venus in Scorpio conjunct ascendant), Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Benjamin Disraeli (Venus in Scorpio conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio conjunct ascendant), Patty Duke (Venus in Scorpio conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio), Chris Evert (Venus in Scorpio conjunct ascendant), Jodie Foster, Bill Gates, Uri Geller (Venus in Scorpio conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio), Jeff Green (Venus in Scorpio conjunct ascendant), Richard Harris (Venus in Scorpio conjunct ascendant), Katie Holmes, Avril Lavigne, Annie Lennox, Demi Moore, Puff Daddy, Susan Sarandon, David Schwimmer, Grace Slick (Venus in Scorpio conjunct ascendant), Steven Spielberg (Venus in Scorpio conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio), Gore Vidal (Venus in Scorpio conjunct ascendant), Tiger Williams, and Carl Wilson (Venus in Scorpio conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio).