Placed in Taurus, the 11th house would describe friendships built over years, around simple pleasures and tangible projects.
Friendship is cultivated like a garden: slowly, with repeated gestures, so that it bears lasting fruit.
Offering your friends a steady presence and carrying a shared project through to the end.
Closing in on an old circle and refusing new faces or fresh ideas.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
The same group of friends since high school, an annual dinner that has never been skipped, a farmers’ cooperative supported for ten years: that is the setting tradition associates with this cusp.
Taurus gives weight to ties and distrusts passing enthusiasms. It takes time to enter the circle, but hardly anyone leaves it. The shared projects that appeal here are tangible: a vacation house bought together, a shared vegetable garden, a community grocery. Your hopes would have to do with security, comfort, and the chance to enjoy life with your own people.
Venus governs the house. The place in the chart where she sits would say where your friends come from and what you share with them: Venus in the 2nd house, friendships tied to money or a skill; in the 4th, comrades adopted by the whole household; in the 10th, valuable support in public life. In Pisces, her exaltation, she would make ties very generous; in detriment in Scorpio as in Aries, more passionate and rocky. Jupiter in this sector would find its joy again and widen the circle.
The limit would be friendly routine. Always the same faces, the same restaurants, the same conversations: the group sets in place. The 5th house in Scorpio, opposite, pushes toward deeper pleasures, a creation that stirs things up. Welcoming a newcomer to the table now and then would renew the whole without betraying anything.
Love would often grow out of a long acquaintance: a ten-year friend who suddenly becomes something else, a dinner at mutual friends’ that runs long.
You like to share convivial rituals with your partner, a Saturday market, an open table. Your jealousy wakes up if the couple threatens the old circle. The axis with Scorpio adds an intensity you show only in private.
Networks are built slowly but they hold.
A recommendation obtained after years of collaboration would be worth more here than a stack of business cards. Team projects succeed when they have a clear budget and a tangible result: a renovation, a food event, crowdfunding for a local shop. You would be the reliable memory of a collective, the one who keeps the accounts up to date.
Invitations revolve around food: a picnic, a raclette, an aperitif that goes on and on.
You keep your loved ones’ birthdays in mind and send a package rather than a simple message. You pay your dues regularly to one or two associations. Changing a few going-out habits, trying an unfamiliar place with your lifelong friends, would keep comfort from turning into boredom.
For an ancient, Venus ruling the eleventh place would be a good omen: pleasant friends, hopes tied to goods and pleasures, support from gracious or fortunate people.
Lilly would add the question of favors received, which here would depend on steadiness and patience more than on boldness. Since Venus is also the lesser benefic of the ancients, her rulership over the very place of Jupiter’s joy would pass for a double pledge of goodwill.
The moderns would read a sociability of fixed earth: few sudden impulses, a great deal of loyalty. The Taurus–Scorpio axis would weigh the group’s security against the need to live more intense and more secret pleasures alone. The fixed sign would slow hopes down, but give them a rare perseverance.
The sign on the cusp of the 11th house depends on the time and place of birth; its ruler becomes the ruler of the house, and where it sits in the chart extends the house.
succedent house: friendships, collective projects, hopes.
The 11th houseA earth sign, fixed.
The Taurus signVenus rules Taurus: its place in the chart extends the 11th house.
Venus in the 11th houseThis placement speaks of old friendships, chosen with care and maintained through simple moments: meals, outings, material projects. Hopes revolve around stability and good living. The downside is a certain closedness in the group. Opposite, a 5th house in Scorpio gives personal pleasures a more passionate depth.
Venus, ruler of Taurus. The house she occupies shows the ground of friendships: finances, home, career, or travel. Her sign modulates the tone: very generous in Pisces, where she is exalted, rougher in her two signs of detriment. Jupiter, if it stands in the eleventh house, would be in its joy there.
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