Venus is the planet of beauty and love and rules the throat center, the center of expression: It is Venus who gives us the compassion to face the sometimes inevitable suffering of the human condition and to whom we can turn to inspire unconditional love. Her colour is a deep, dark blue, almost indigo, as if she was burned by the fire of experience in form: she is like the twin sister of earth, only she gets twice as much light from the sun, which she shares with us from her well of infinite compassion. Her beauty has the power to lift us out of the mundane, the mess, the noise and bring us to that point of stillness in the higher heart, our connection with all that is living, the One Source of all life.