The fastest pair in the chart
A conjunction is the same ecliptic longitude, within about eight degrees for this pair. Both bodies move quickly. The Moon covers roughly thirteen degrees a day and Venus can manage over a degree, so the two conjoin about once a month and the whole window opens and closes inside a day and a half.
That speed has a practical consequence. Birth time matters more here than for almost any other conjunction, because an hour of error shifts the Moon by around half a degree. A reported orb of seven degrees on a rounded birth time might really be six or eight, and near the edge that decides whether the aspect counts.
There is no distance constraint between the Moon and Venus. Unlike Venus with the Sun, this pair can take any angle, so a conjunction here carries no additional information about where either body sits relative to anything else.
One judgement instead of two
The Moon is what settles you, the reflex you return to without deciding. Venus is preference, the sense of what is worth having and what looks right. When they are separated, most people can tell the difference between something that soothes them and something they admire.
A conjunction merges the two. What is comfortable becomes what is beautiful, and the standard is applied automatically rather than argued for. The tradition reads this as ease of manner and a strong sense of the aesthetic of ordinary life, and it appears frequently in descriptions of hospitality, domestic design and the kind of taste that operates faster than analysis.
The corresponding limitation is that discomfort is hard to distinguish from ugliness. A situation that is merely unfamiliar can register as wrong, because the same faculty is producing both verdicts and there is no second opinion available to check them against.
Sign and house do the heavy lifting
Both bodies have strong sign preferences, which makes placement unusually important here. In Taurus and Cancer this conjunction is on friendly ground and reads much as the descriptions suggest. In Scorpio, where the Moon is uncomfortable and Venus is not at home either, the same aspect reads with far more intensity and far less ease, and the general interpretation misleads.
House placement decides where it applies. In the fourth it stays domestic. In the tenth it becomes part of how you are seen at work. In the twelfth it is often invisible to everyone but the person concerned. A conjunction in the second is read as a direct link between comfort and possessions, which is the version most likely to show up in spending.
Orb, phase and what to check
Inside two degrees this is a clear feature and worth reading properly. Between two and eight it is mild. A conjunction that crosses a sign boundary, with the Moon at the end of one sign and Venus at the start of the next, splits the rulerships and reads as a partial contact rather than a full merge.
Venus retrograde is worth checking, since it happens about every eighteen months and is read as taste that has been revised or turned inward. The Moon has no retrograde, but its phase relative to the Sun still colours the reading, and a Moon and Venus conjunction close to the Sun is a different picture from one on the opposite side of the chart.
Be wary of the usual overstatement. This aspect is often written up as a promise of charm or an easy life at home, which is more than an eight degree conjunction between two fast bodies can carry. The check above gives you the exact orb, both signs, both houses and Venus's direction, which is where a careful reading starts.
Questions people ask about this
How common is Moon conjunct Venus?
The two conjoin roughly once a month in the sky, but the window is short because both bodies move quickly. That makes the aspect ordinary rather than rare, and it is one of the more frequently found conjunctions in birth charts.
Does the aspect mean I am artistic?
It is often read as an eye for the aesthetic of everyday things rather than as artistic ability in a technical sense. Whether that turns into work depends on the rest of the chart, particularly Mars, Saturn and the fifth house.
Why does birth time matter so much here?
Because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees a day. An hour of uncertainty shifts it by roughly half a degree, so a reported orb near the eight degree limit can be wrong in either direction if the time was rounded.
What if Venus is retrograde?
The tradition reads a retrograde Venus as preference that has been reconsidered rather than accepted at face value. In this conjunction that usually shows as taste which is less conventional and more privately arrived at.
Are the Moon and Venus always in the same sign?
Usually, but a wide conjunction can straddle a sign boundary. When it does, the two bodies are working under different rulers and the merged reading described above applies much less cleanly.
Is this a strong aspect or a minor one?
It depends almost entirely on orb and house. Tight and angular, it is a visible feature of the person. Wide and in a quiet house, it is a background note that most readings would mention briefly and move past.