Composite Venus in the Twelfth House

This is a difficult and challenging place for any planet, including benefic Venus. Since this is the house of difficulties and self-undoing, you have a taste for exploring those parts of the relationship and of reality that have the greatest social and emotional danger. The operative word here is 'observation.' If you keep your eyes open, there can be no more fertile ground for satisfaction, baring your inner secrets and making the changes necessary to grow together and in relationship to the outside world. Blink, and you may find your desires driving you over a precipice that can delay, frustrate, or even destroy the relationship. Here your desires entail special responsibilities as well as potential rewards, so you need to become mutually self-aware. That will not make this an easy relationship, but one that is born of open eyes, patience, and commitment in order to realize your desires. At the same time, if you do it well, you can find yourselves designated guides to the hidden and unconscious by those who see you navigating those waters with success. Navigate well, because when you bring others abroad, they will go down if you go down...but when you reach the other shore, you may have a loyal and thankful entourage.

Excerpt from "Composite Charts- The Astrology of Relationships" by John Townley