Is there an embedding of any vector space $V$ into $V^*$?
As far as I know it is not true. The statement that I know of is that there is natural embedding of $V$ into $V^{**}$
Is there any condition/ special vector spaces for which $V$ can be into $V^*$ naturally?
If $V$ has an inner product $\langle \cdot,\cdot\rangle$, then for each $v\in V$ we can construct an element $f_v\in V^*$ by $$ f_v(x) = \langle x,v\rangle \quad x\in X. $$ This yields a natural embedding of $V$ in $V^*$ for inner product spaces.