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The following is an excerpt from an interpretation.

You have Venus in Cancer in the 7th house.

Venus represents how we create and respond to harmony. Venus is that part of us that wants to get along well with others. She also represents our aesthetic tastes and perceptions or how we feel moved when we see beauty, such as the beauty found in nature. Venus rules inner peace and those sorts of experiences can help us calm down when life jostles and jars our sensibilities. She’s how we relax and have fun. She represents the appealing qualities with which we attract others to us, whether they are beauty, gracefulness, politeness, an elegant way of speaking or moving, or something else. In addition, Venus indicates how we form and maintain supportive relationships.

Your Venus lies in imaginative, tenderhearted Cancer—the sign of the Mother, the Healer, and the Nurse. In order to form meaningful social bonds, you need to nurture others and open yourself up to being nurtured by others. In other words, you’ll need to open yourself up enough to take the risk of loving and trusting those who might treat you with sensitivity. Will you grow, or will you only play it safe? Eventually the two come into conflict, and you’ll have to decide which to give higher priority. Like a growing plant, eventually you need to be repotted. If it happens, you could flourish. If it doesn’t, you could wilt. If you’re really going to develop your creativity and express yourself aesthetically, you’ll need to listen to what your intuition and your imagination tell you. It won’t be enough to use your head or to make a realistic appraisal of situations, based on what you can see, or hear, or touch.

What will help you develop your social strategy as a healer or nurse? Providing caring and emotional comfort for others. Giving tangible expression to your imagination. Reflecting on your own feelings and exploring the feelings of others.

By sign, Venus represents what we need in a partner, what we find attractive. Part of Venus’s role is to help us learn about relating, and eventually we have to interact with others to do that. So what kind of people should you try to be with? 

People who value home and hearth, memories and familiar places and family keepsakes. Gentle, sentimental, poetic people. Those who treat their own feelings and those of others with compassion and tenderness. Those who encourage you to take seriously whatever springs forth from your imagination and your intuition, whether it’s regarding artistic activity, close relationships, building financial security, or something else. Don’t waste your time on people who act cold, brusque or unforgiving. Don’t settle for those who act emotionally repressed. If someone tries to get you to take action without taking seriously how you feel about such action, that’s an indication that you need to limit how much time you spend with that person. You need reflective, nurturing companions who make themselves emotionally vulnerable with you and who make you want to make yourself emotionally vulnerable with them. Such people will help you develop the best of your potential socially. They’ll give you a greater sense of satisfaction in the long run.

Your Venus lies not only in Cancer but also in the 7th house, the house of intimacy.

The 7th house pertains to our intimate relationships and our identification with other people—our ability to put ourselves in someone else’s “shoes.” Intimate relationships such as those with significant others, close friends, business partners, clients, and specialized advisors (such as lawyers and astrologers) are represented by this house. Seventh-house relationships don’t have to be cooperative. They call also be competitive, such as with legal opponents, business competitors, or other rivals. Whether the relationships are competitive or cooperative, they involve face-to-face, close encounters with others.

With Venus in the 7th house, you need imaginative, collaborative partnerships in order to enjoy yourself and feel socially connected to others. Seek out ways to care for others or engage their imagination in one-on-one encounters. Sell real estate, or style hair, or tend bar. Become a physician. Write books or poems. Take up photography. There are lots of ways that you could do this. Those are just a few of them. Such activities would feed your Venus. They would help you build supportive relationships with others. They would help you express your aesthetic tastes or sensibilities in creative ways. They would help you have fun and relax when life jangles your nerves.

You can make the best or the worst of your natal Venus in Cancer in the 7th house. The choice is yours. If you make the worst of it, then you could behave like a self-indulgent crybaby, a manipulative and smothering parent, or a lazy invisible man.

If you act like a self-indulgent crybaby, then you get into unbalanced relationships, ones in which you call the shots all the time and the other person follows your lead. Emotionally self-absorbed, you throw tantrums or pout if you don’t get your way. You spend so much time nursing your own wounds from feeling abandoned in the past that you act emotionally stingy toward others. Maybe you give people a mixed message: on one hand, you test how much they care about you or support you; on the other hand, you never let yourself be vulnerable with them. Perhaps your insecurity leads to both a premature marriage and a quick divorce. You avoid emotional confrontations with others, so your way of interacting stays pretty primitive even though you get older. Adult interactions become too much for you to handle. Venus needs relaxation and pleasure, but here you live a life of decadent pleasure. You overindulge in food, or wine, or some other pleasure with others or at others’ expense. Maybe you use one person to indulge in pleasure with another person, for example, forging your spouse’s signature on a deed to a house so that you can enjoy it with someone whom you’re loving on the side.

If you act like a manipulative smothering parent, then you treat people like possessions. You try to take charge of their lives “for their own good.” You bind them to you. Suppose you’re a parent with adult children. Maybe you encourage them to continue to live with you rather than get out on their own in the world. Having them around gives you (and maybe them) a sense of emotional comfort, but it also stunts your emotional growth…and it encourages them to depend on you to an unhealthy extent. You let your need to be needed get out of control.

If you act like a lazy invisible man, then you wear an emotional coat of armor. You develop a quasi-paranoid distrust of others, and you try to be an island unto yourself. You put up walls to insulate yourself from the risk of others attacking you, whether the risk is real or not. Maybe you worry that you’ll become too dependent on someone else, or that he or she will become too dependent on you, so you take the easy way out. You avoid situations that might lead to intimacy. What does this get you? Social and emotional isolation. Yes, you filter out the bad stuff, but you also filter out the good stuff.

With Venus in the 7th house, another hazard is sacrificing your integrity for the sake of holding on to some superficial closeness or an illusion of peace. If you do that, then you get into dances in which the other person calls the shots all the time and you follow his or her lead. Whether you’re act domineering or always defer, you might not form stable emotional connections with other people. Somehow your interactions never take on some key ingredient of intimacy. Either you don’t meet as equals who respect yourselves and each other, or the relationship is nothing special compared to others in your life, or the two of you can only count on it lasting until current circumstances in your lives change.

If you make the most of your Venus, then you could conduct yourself like a charitable healer, a creative psychotherapist, or a soothing empath--a person who intuits other people’s feelings.

If you act like a charitable healer, then you function as a solid, soothing, grounding force for others when they’re destabilized by their emotions. You help people trust that they have an inner, instinctive foundation that can serve as a source of strength for them during difficult times. You could provide healing of an intangible, emotional support or a tangible, practical support. You’re the politician who stabilizes the economy during a financial crisis. You’re the business owner who requires that clients donate part of their earnings to a charitable program. Suppose that someone close to you dies. You might turn your sadness outward and become more compassionate toward others. You could become active in philanthropic efforts. Perhaps you start an organization such as the International Red Cross, which aim to prevent suffering and to protect the lives and dignity of people amid war and domestic violence.

If you act like a soothing empath, then you relate to others in a way that shows sensitivity and an ability to put yourself in their “shoes.” You don’t try to take over other people’s lives to satisfy your own emotional needs. Instead, you provide appropriate comfort and support, treating them as whole people—feelings and all. You’re the police officer who speaks to schoolchildren, encouraging them to dream big and work hard and promoting an anti-drug, anti-violence program. You’re the war correspondent who writes about how soldiers on the front are doing. Your writing touches the public’s soul and prompts them to improve services for people in the military. You’re the businessperson who builds rapport with business associates and demonstrates a knack for negotiating.

If you act like a creative psychotherapist, then you appreciate the importance of not only acting with emotional self-control and common sense but also considering subjective factors in responding effectively to life’s challenges. In other words, although you don’t let yourself become emotionally overwrought or act in emotionally self-indulgent ways, you believe that a person’s inner life does matter. You’re the photographer with a great vision who lets her pictures tell the story. You’re the creation of a nonprofit foundation to promote awareness of New Age subjects. Maybe you develop an effective working relationship with a psychotherapist to explore your own inner life.

By making the most of your Venus, you enter into balanced relationships, ones that allow room for both giving and getting, leading and following, independence and interdependence. You and another person meet as two mature adults who appreciate that companionship and collaboration can add value to your lives. When the inevitable conflicts come up, you discuss them openly and gently with each other. You form bonds that are strong enough to accommodate the future growth of either or both of you without coming asunder. You can count on each other being around even if your circumstances change down the road.