Venus: The Evolution of the Goddess and Her Planet

The Goddess Venus has long been an inspiration to artists, writers and composers, while the word 'Venus' itself conjures up images of the perfect woman - an ideal of feminine beauty. This image works not only to dictate a certain aesthetic ideal, but also distorts the original goddesses of love and fertility from whom Venus and Aphrodite are descended. In Venus: The Evolution of the Goddess and Her Planet we see that the original symbolism of the planet can be traced to the legends of the early love and fertility goddesses: the Sumerian Inanna, the Babylonian ishtar and the Sematic Astarte. By tracing the representation, artefacts and legends of the goddesses who preceded Aphrodite, Ronne Gale Dreyer regains the lost attributes of the planet Venus. In this way she not only redefines the interpretation of the planet Venus in the horoscope, but, further, provides a more complete and accurate picture of this model for women.