Venus in the 4th House ***************************************************************** You feel a strong need for peace and harmony in your surroundings, particularly at home. You find tension hard to bear and will always seek an appropriate solution for problems and conflicts; differences have to be smoothed out. You are content when you have a comfortable home and can carry out improvements on it. As long as no challenging aspects exist between Venus in the fourth house and other planets, you can expect comfortable living conditions in the second half of your life. Venus always affects the perception you have of a person or thing you value. For some individuals with this placement there can be, as a child, what is known as an Oedipus complex. This is where there is an attraction to a parent of the opposite sex. The parent of the same sex is seen as a rival if these individuals felt they could not get close to him or her. For this to be the case, there often have to be additional circumstances, since Venus in the fourth house usually indicates a positive family inheritance in both psychological and material ways. Perhaps you belong to the lucky ones whose childhood involved artistic influences.