Venus retrograde 2025
navigating venus retrograde 2025
Venus Retrograde is a powerful time of inner reflection where we are guided to reassess our values. The planet of love, relationships, values, and money will be retrograde for 40 days and 40 nights, triggering issues relating to these topics.
Key dates:
2nd March: Venus stations retrograde at 10º Aries
27th March: Venus retrograde enters pisces
13 April: Venus stations direct at 24º pisces
first, a look at venus
In mythology Venus is the goddess of love. She is the Roman counterpart to the Greek Goddess Aphrodite, who was the goddess of love, sex, beauty and desire. And in astrology Venus represents the same thing — Venus is our love affairs, our pleasure, our capacity to receive and express affection and emotion. She is intimacy, beauty and art. Venus shows what we like, what we value, what makes us feel good. Venus is our feelings and values that shape how we make sense of the world at a deeper and more personal level.
Venus is our feelings and what we value. And this is formulated based on Mercurys objective experience. Venus gives the information from mercury MEANING.
Her glyph looks like a hand-held mirror because Venus tells us how we reflect ourselves in others and others in ourselves, so we can find similarities and common values.
what does a retrograde mean?
Venus turns Retrograde approximately every 18 months, for 40 days and 40 nights at a time. She runs in eight-year/96-year cycles. It’s no surprise that the planet of love and beauty creates the most stunning pattern in the sky:
This particular Venus retrograde is connected to the 8 year Venus retrograde cycles of March-April 2017 and March-April 2009. Every 8 years Venus is moving through the same sign.
The 8 year cycle of Venus connects event from the past with the present. We will usually notice a repeating theme or pattern in our lives from those time periods, especially if you have planets or angles in the late degrees of Pisces or in the early degrees of Aries.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Retrogrades are a period of introspection and they tend to stir matters of the past and bring up old wounds that we may have ignored or overlooked. Venus retrograde 2025 is a chance to heal.
During Venus retrograde, we’ll be inspired to self reflect and think about all the areas of life that Venus oversees: romance, beauty, values, and earnings.
We may discover new insights about our closest relationships, and the relationship we have with ourself.
First we must note that Venus will begin her retrograde journey in the firey sign of Aries. Taking on the qualities of Aries, we may feel very activated, passionate, or headstrong about the Venus topics.
When Venus re-enters pisces, there is a softer and more introspective vibe, stirring our emotions, and giving a much more sensitive experience to the retrograde as we navigate all that she is bringing up for us. It’s during this time that we should prioritise protecting our energy.
The second thing to note is there is a focus to the 24° Pisces – 10° Aries area of the zodiac.
Look at this area of your birth chart. If you have planets or angles within these degrees, the 2025 Venus Retrograde will be highly activating for you. As Venus moves through the degrees, she will touch your natal planets/angles, bringing an emphasis to the the themes or qualities of them. Profound insights or realisations and major changes are more likely to occur.
Even if you don’t have planets in this area of the zodiac, the Venus retrograde will still be influencing a particular area of your chart as she transits backward through 1 or 2 of your houses. The themes and topics of those houses become more prominent, and you will likely notice a lot of your energy going towards those areas.
During this time you may discover that what you first believed to be important is actually not that important! Or on the flip side, things you once overlooked may actually be worth your energy and turn out to be very meaningful.
You’ll be invited to re-evaluate your relationships, values, and self-worth. You may experience a change of heart and shift in priorities.
You’ll also be rethinking your finances — are you spending in ways that truly align with what’s actually important to you?
But importantly, the Venus retrograde describes our relationship with ourselves — how we manage our feelings, our needs and expectations. What we like, what we value, what we attract, and how we feel about ourselves.
what if venus is retrograde in my natal chart?
Venus is a rare planet to have in the natal chart - about 7% of people have this (yours truly has it, in Gemini).
The energy of Venus retrograde might feel very familiar for you. While others are trying to make sense of all. the retrograde is bringing forward, you may be thriving and navigating the energies with ease. Thats not to say the retrorgrade isn’t an important time for you — but you certainly aren’t doomed, as many pop astrologers seem to suggest. If you’ve read you will have money problems and bad luck in relationships, throw that out the window! Having a natal Venus retrograde just means you are used to the “different” ways of operating under Venus, and that this period may not be as much of a jolting experience as it could be for others.
the point of the journey
Remember, Venus retrograde isn’t a punishment. The retrograde is here to help you carve through the layers of ego to get back to what really matters — back to your truth. It’s a cosmic course correction!
It can be helpful to reflect back on March-April 2009 and 2017 for further insight into what type of transition you might be in right now. It may not be the exact same situations, but internal feelings and insights may resurface. Also think of what happened in the months following in 2009 and 2017 - the shifts or changes you experienced.
journal prompts for venus rx:
What do I truly value? If your heart could talk what would it say here?
Are the relationships I keep giving to me as much as I give into them?
How can I have a more empowering relationship with money? What does that look like?
