How the attraction works
Attraction here is immediate and concealed. This Venus usually knows very early and says nothing for a long time, on the reasonable calculation that a disclosed feeling cannot be withdrawn. What it is testing during that period is whether the other person can be trusted with the information.
Once past that point, the attachment is close to total, and casual arrangements are not really available to this placement even when it agrees to them.
Detriment, and where the friction actually is
Scorpio sits opposite Taurus, so Venus is in detriment. The friction is specific: Venus prefers ease and pleasure, while Scorpio is interested in what lies underneath and will disturb something comfortable in order to find out.
This is why the placement so often produces relationships with real depth and real difficulty in the same arrangement. Mars and Pluto both rule Scorpio; checking their condition explains most of the variation between one Venus in Scorpio and another.
Money and taste
Spending is controlled and occasionally extreme: long periods of restraint punctuated by something significant. Taste runs dark, textured and deliberate, and this Venus is unusually attentive to quality it can verify rather than quality it is told about.
What it needs to work
A partner who does not flinch at the intensity and who is straightforward, since this Venus reads evasion accurately and treats it as a verdict. Reassurance helps far less than consistency does.
Taurus opposite is the correction: taking something at face value occasionally, and letting a good arrangement be simple rather than investigating it.
From the other side of it
Partners describe the early period as puzzling: obvious interest paired with an absolute refusal to state it. What they describe afterwards is being paid attention to more completely than they had experienced before, which most find unsettling and then addictive.
The friction is about disclosure. This Venus asks searching questions and answers few, and partners frequently discover years in that they know considerably less than they assumed. It is rarely deception; the placement simply does not volunteer, and it does not register the asymmetry as unusual until it is pointed out.
Questions people ask about this
Is Venus in Scorpio jealous?
It is watchful, and it treats evasion as significant. Whether that becomes jealousy depends on the situation and on the rest of the chart.
Why is Venus in detriment here?
Scorpio opposes Taurus, which Venus rules. The planet's preference for ease conflicts with the sign's interest in what lies underneath.
Can this placement do casual relationships?
It can agree to one. It rarely experiences one, which is the source of most of the difficulty attributed to it.