VENUS

Venus (noun) — the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'. 2. (noun) goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite.

“before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer”