Transiting Venus retrograde occurs every 19 months for six weeks (42 days). This means Venus retrogrades only 7% of the time, the least amount of any planet. The next closest is the Mars retrograde at 9%, followed by the Mercury retrograde at 19%. Therefore, Venus’s Retrograde is the most strongly felt of all retrograde planets.
Venus retrograde can make giving and receiving love and affection more difficult. It encourages introspection about your love life and the things you value. You may become interested in someone or something of value that would please you.
During this fated period for love, old friends or lovers may reappear, or you may relive past life experiences to sort out karmic issues. Destiny encounters and feelings of inevitability or familiarity are possible. You could even meet your soul mate.
Use Venus retrogrades to improve how you feel about yourself and to love yourself more. Think about what truly pleases you. Discovering reasons for relationship problems can help you clear away the past to make room for new relationships. Even reminiscing about old partners will help to remove your karmic baggage and lighten the load.
Venus retrograde has traditionally been seen as unfortunate for love and not the best time to marry, invest or buy luxury items. However, each retrograde phase is different, and much depends on Venus retrograde aspects in your chart. See Venus Transits for more details.
Venus Retrograde Dates
- 2023: July 22 to September 3 – 28° to 12° Leo
- 2025: March 1 to April 12 – 10° Aries to 24° Pisces
- 2026: October 3 to November 13 – 8° Scorpio to 22° Libra
Venus Retrograde Natal
Natal Venus retrograde suggests you have difficulty giving and receiving love and affection. You may experience sadness in love or have to endure hardship or delay. Lack of self-love, social anxiety, shyness, and even financial hardship are also possible.
Often, these challenges are a result of past life relationship issues. Due to the laws of karma, if you caused suffering or hardship to a lover in an earlier life, you shall experience something similar yourself during this life. Venus retrograde in the birth chart acts like Mars, so perhaps you hurt someone you love. Maybe you had an affair, walked out when they needed you most, or physically injured them.
Whatever happened in past romances, you come into this life with those bad memories etched in your soul. You probably don’t recognize them as memories but as déjà vu or unexplained guilt. The theme of challenging events related to your past can repeat, especially when you are young.
Sadness and disappointment may come from unrequited love, forced marriage, sexual abuse, mental illness, or physical disability. Learning to love yourself is critical in working through your natal Venus retrograde issues. Other signs of Venus retrograde in the birth chart are poor personal hygiene and not caring about your appearance.
Self-love can start with beautifying your physical appearance. Fashion, cosmetics, and beauty treatments can significantly improve your self-love, making you more lovable. However, natal Venus in retrograde can also show as excessive use of makeup and jewelry or even disfigurement from cosmetic surgery.
Venus retrograde in your natal chart aims to perfect those areas of your love life that once let you down. As your relationship skills improve with experience, your karmic debt will be repaid, and you will enjoy more loving relationships.
Golly gosh & good luck to those who are looking for a partner but know their astro more in-depth. But me, sigh, although I’ve had almost half a lifetime, I’m old, of MeToo, tho nonviolent, long term relationships….And just started to think maybe I’m well enough to consider looking into another relationship…Well! Nope, not now. I am going to backtrack on my recent thoughts of getting out n about more & forget the consideration to even get on a dating app. Had a gutful of Karma, poor choices & I can’t risk it. All looks far too complex for this half destroyed soul & even tho older & supposedly wiser & the best I’ve felt in at least 2 decades, I’m too burnt to trust my judgement even at the best of times. Best wishes to all who are braver! Sigh.
Oh geez, didn’t I just go thru this with mars rx!
Revisited loves that existed on another plane. Bonds were tight but didn’t work in real time. I mistook them for potential love mates. Just crossing paths again. I bled. They bled. How were we to know. Ahh sweet misery.
Mistaken identity. Both of me and by me. Need work there. I have been getting a better feel of real the last few years. Just a feeling of groundedness in some that feels real.
Had to laugh at myself as I feel like I was born into enemy territory in my bio unit. Probably why I feel I live invisible and undercover. Might come in handy with all the brouhaha going on.
And Kaz, it doesn’t happen often, but just this week a man caught my eye at the post office. But when I got in my car, I saw a big ass maga license plate on the butt of truck. Yikes! Glad he wears a warning sign! Disaster. 🤣
Haha, that was good! 😅 Forewarned is forarmed! Although nowadays that saying sounds too maga as well. 😬
…. unfortunately, with me, all the Venus-transits point to bad health, except maybe when it’s 6 degrees I best be careful – that’s when the transiting Venus trines my Mars. 🤔
On the other hand Mars rules my 6th house – maybe I get a small pause from being ill? Would be so welcome!
Good one Vic, saved by an inanimate object! I love that.
I’m just gobsmacked at the Big L, clearly on my forehead still, that psychic vampires must see.
Last Autumn/Winter having a nice walk around my town cbd, before shopping… a well dressed fellow around my age, suddenly stopped at me & expressing how awesome my long sherpa style, faux fur collar was. It is awesome. Said & u make it look beautiful. All well & good, a rare spontaneous compliment. Chatted a mo & then he offered to shout a cuppa fm the cafe right there & further chat. He really wasn’t my type per se, but I thought that attitude fkd me over for so long… Be more open. I accepted to exchange mobile no’s. I ended up blocking him as over the next few days i got texts starting with, can we catch up for coffee tomorrow? To several texts that were just sex-texts. So utterly shattered that the first male to “approach with interest”, (even if only friends), after 16fkn years of being single, grief, illness, no energy for much of anything but recovery, and then just as thoughts in last year or so considering I’m strong enough to put me out there…. I get a creep. Even with that stab in the face healed & i do not suffer loneliness like most people, after a time thought yeah nah maybe get on a local dating app or more groups. Yeah nah re the Venus retro even if my generalized decan seems pretty awesome for a time. Tbh, I’m totally over humanity. I so wish I was like 9 out of 10 imho, being self absorbed, selfish , childish, tunnel vision, bereft of much but narcissistic behaviour. And I’ve been renown for patience, empathy, kindness if not perhaps tempered with a little too much aloofness at times. Self-protection I guess. So! I can only feel FECKIN KARMA is telling me don’t feckin bother at the age of 63 now, to live in hope u may have one more, well a decent relationship, even a short one ffs, before you die. Soz all for the Sob story! 🌻
Sorry you got hit again. But to think of me getting a sex text . . . WTH!!!
I do know what it is like to be going thru tragedy or recovering and getting hit on. The other person just does not know. I guess he read you wrong too.
I have no intention of mating again. Friends is all I am interested again. If it happened again, I would be amazed. An astrologer once told me I would marry late in life. maybe a nursing home wedding. 🤣.
Longing,Wanting,Wishing,attachment & Addiction etc etc.
That aside…
Welcome to your prison.
Mind.
Definitely can relate. Self imposed mental prison.
So much so even my dreams have been odd.
Ah, Tosh, weird dreams are going around. Mine are happening when i an awake. What up with that?
…..This Venus retrograde will make a sextile to my natal Venus retrograde, Mercury and MC (Pluto is currently conj. it and in trine with natal Uranus) in Aquarius…. – i`m a Taurus rising so i guess it will be an important…
Ah, so you are a bit rare with the Venus retrograde. I hope you will have more to write. I have mars rx natally and have to slow down before acting. It just doesn’t work for me like others I have always felt.
‘each retrograde phase is different, and much depends on Venus retrograde’s aspects in your chart.’
Looking at local Venus retrograde and Venus persona, 8 Jan 1963
https://postimg.cc/zbxhBGvr
on persona 8 Jan 1963 Sun transits natal Venus 17Cap35. Jupiter conjunct Skat. NNode oscillation. At local Venus retrograde Part of Fortune conjunct Regulus, in a learning triangle with Mid heaven and Ascendant.
Australian Malcolm Turnbull, Moon conjunct Messier 87, opposite the considerable 7 planet alignment in Pisces/Aries. He has energies on the sign cusps, like Jupiter/Uranus at oscillation. https://postimg.cc/MMpDt4jz In the news, a former Prime Minister.
Oh dear, how it hits a chart. In convo with someone who is struggling. Venus rx conj natal mercury and heading toward a. Conjunction with natal sun. Person’s been sleeping on it, but not comfortable. One of the astrology is bullsit people until it isn’t. I don’t mind. Why I started in this in first place, to be of better assist to my peeps.
Two stationary Venus retrograde charts, compare to Magna Carta, natal and progressed.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/13cvcMG
The progressed chart shows a full moon and several other oppositions. Heated arguments/disagreements a day ahead?
The natal Magna Carta has its Jupiter conjunct current Skat and Sun. Further inventory of you are counting.
Venus/Moon emotional, and LOT of Fortune in 12 house, if looking at the Regulus ingress chart, Part of Fortune trine Venus https://postimg.cc/FfrHTfjX but POF in Virgo, and Mercury conjunct Neptune; keep your lies straight, miscommunication with accountants or customers or between leaders and countries.
inventory, Jupiter conj. New Moon/Skat
Starmer
Canada
Venus Persona
Magna Carta (1215)
It would be good if people honestly got in touch with their value systems. Crisis point. Do you save your family from danger by succumbing to the tyrant or do you exit and keep your soul? Tough call. Or not so tough call, quit and have it all.
I wish I could move to a smallish house in the woods, have a small farming and gardening area, live off the grid with separate sauna building and solar panel or/and small wind power turbine to keep lights and kitchen alliances working, and possibly some extra heating system for the ever rarer really cold winters, if I would move back to Finland.
That’s what I would do.
Hardly any areas without wi-fi access, so could perhaps start a weekly column or video for the world peace and unity.
Oh and I have witch/shaman ancestry, so could heal some easier cases with herbal medicine, and some singing, I guess.
With health system collapsing, even the minor knowledge will be very valuable eventually.
So, a widespread community/village living in the woods and maybe I would even geat my nowadays deadly rheuma ( lupus, vasculitis, Sjögren etc. ) to remission….Girl can dream….
What is water access like there? Would have to drill well or carry? I am in clay here, and had to go down hundreds of feet.
Does watching your intake of inflammatory foods help you? I have not been diagnosed with anything, but if I say what the heck and eat something I know I should not, I pay for it. So I swear never again. Until the next time of course.
I thought I was gonna lose a gal pal. She was so thin and actually grey. Had her blood tested for allergies to 200 foods. The list of stuff she can’t have is zany. Like pumpkin, but no squash. Hunh?
Can you handle power tools? Trades classes toward wild living would be good common ground toward future dream. I like the trades guys. Have had to cross paths with many many since roofer destroyed buildings here. Some have a beer problem though. Not good. They aren’t drunk on the job, but they have that back and forth, up and down, mood thing.
But the one thing I wish I had, carpentry skills. There’s still time left for that I think.
Like hardware and building supply guys that know their stuff too.
In the Natal chart Moon conjunct Juno. At Venus Retrograde, Moon 09Ari06 sextile natal Mercury, the ‘story telling’ aspect.
Juno 01Sag07, sextile Saturn, square Uranus “She’s a rebel too” https://postimg.cc/mznMqdy1
In progressions Venus has moved from zero point, October 31/2019 to 06Ari39, loosely conjunct Moon/Venus at Venus retrograde March 1/2025. https://postimg.cc/nMgVj8LQ
Juno is square Mercury, themes of miscommunication, how do you communicate your commitment? Do you say MAGA or MAGNA, Make America a great neighbour again?
You are a hoot!
I have natal Sun in Taurus in 3rd house. Venus stationing retrograde conjunct my natal moon and mercury, opposite Pluto. Feeling so overwhelmed. My natal Pluto has 10 aspects btw. Feels no one could ever understand what I had gone through.
I’ll have to treat myself better I guess, time to do that.
They can’t understand. Which is why I always kept it to myself. Shouldered it t all. That’s a change I made going thru this thing. It was too much. I shared the load.
Once out of the blue a companion told me, you’ve been thru more than most. I fell to my knees and sobbed. He saw. And stupid me, I had thought it was normal.
I do believe this is a strength building lifetime for me. Pluto and Scorpio have been talked about as survival issues.
From the very get go, Hephaestus lameness starkly stuck in my head. The base lameness. An Astro writer wrote that with a Pluto da Saturn natal, she always advised clients to look at what was going on at time of birth. I’d like to think Elvis busting out. But my locale was going thru an onslaught of polio when I was conceived, biggest u.s. had seen I think. I grew up with kids in small community who were physically contorted. Seemed like a hip thing from the way they walked.
Back to Forrest Gump. Run Forrest Run!
More of Mars square Chiron in the news: nationalpost.com/opinion/mark-milke-chronic-canadian-apologies
Politicians play up this aspect, and so do journalists. Sun moving into aspect with Saturn changes the dynamic, of the Mars-Chiron-Saturn learning triangle. More creative ways of expressing pain and fetish for victory? Sun conjunct Chiron at 12 April Full Moon, for instance. https://postimg.cc/LJ64NqTG Before we get there, Sun conjunct Saturn next week.
People injured everywhere. Core remedy expressed through the artwork, but that is challenged too.
Musing on the article, one example: Tsilhqot’in vs the roadbuilders, the Chilcotin war, 1864. Back in those days competing interests finding a route to tidewater, for railways and trade, but lacking in necessary protocols.
Chart of the moment, 10:00 am Pacific time. https://postimg.cc/R3PTNbCq Venus retrograde sentiment towards this topic, under a Mars square Chiron, semi-sextile Saturn. Perhaps review this episode again, under a cloud of tariff and sovereignty.
Oh no. I am Libra rising, and while Paul doesn’t use houses, the transiting Venus stations on my 6th house Kheiron, going backwards all the way to opposition to Pluto in Pisces, with Saturn there too, and transiting nodes conjuncts Venus and Saturn, with the South Node on my Pluto. 😱
And my health issues have gotten terrible this year, obviously lupus and vasculitis and Sjögren instead of “only” RA and psoriatic arthritis…All bones hurt, joints, stomach, liver, kidneys…
Had surgery last summer and CT showed early stages of destruction of my kidneys and lungs plus bleeding gastritis – lost my gallbladder in the surgery. 🙄
Should I write a testament?
Been seriously worried about it…Venus rules my chart, and also the 8th ( where transiting Uranus resides atm ) and 12th house!
But even without houses – Venus and Saturn opposite my Pluto while transiting South Node conjoins it – is this survivable?
I am very serious.
In my city hospitals are full all the time, so no health care anymore in this collapsing country. Except removal of further organs, I guess.
Can I get this into remission – after all, I have also Sun conjunction Mars in Leo which should bring more bravery and life energy?
Still, my Virgo planets are equally strong, and the Mars-Sun in Leo sextile Uranus in Libra make a quincunx to my NN in Pisces, so yod aka Finger of God….
Anyone having encouring words for this very broken, very sick Libra rising woman from Berlin? 🙏
Jupiter, 11th house of hopes and wishes, Lunar eclipse synastry.. Mercury sextile VenusRx transit.
Nice contribution, very apt. Asteroid 1282 Utopia conjunct natal Moon and Juno, transit 4th house.
https://postimg.cc/RN3yZzqF
Uranus quintile Neptune, golden yod, Moon, Juno, Utopia apex
https://postimg.cc/yJBZv9GZ
With some Germany help, artwork summary configuration. Long term vision of an Utopia, the Venus retrograde version.
Astrologically I don’t know, but I have seen some ridiculous upturns in health in the last few years. They did do the medical thing though after tons of online networking with folks with similar conditions to decide where to go and what to do. It seems like the person with the ailment has to do all kinds of work themselves to be able to find the right course of action medically anymore. And then push the provider to take them seriously. I want to wave a magic wand for your well being.
President Trump raising tariffs, ‘Wednesday morning’
Moon void calendar
Mar 11, 2025 08:16 pm Moon Begins VoC Leo
Mar 12, 2025 07:55 am Moon Enters —> Virgo
Courtesy moontracts.
at midnight mundane with DJT outer wheel
https://postimg.cc/4mDVqnyX
In mundane two minor grand trines centred on Neptune and Uranus respectfully. Are they representative of the quintile points in the golden yod? Jupiter conjunct Part of Fortune sextile Mercury/VenusRx. Do you wish more assertion of your northern neighbours contribution to more purposeful change? What of this artwork?
Former Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker astrology
https://postimg.cc/JHhTkCy7
Born at a Solar eclipse, 18 September 1895, with 29 March 2025 transits. Natal chart Venus retrograde, somehow fitting to review his record and that of his ministers, many similar trade and tax issues. He stuck around for a long time, 1976 PC leader election, on television, working the delegates. But back then boomers in the job market wanted old guys to go away.
Venus rx rages on. All kinds of stuff coming up about relationship to others. Maybe natal Venus rx has that all down pat from living it, coping with it.
Oh, natal venus mars rx saturn grand trine. Definitely getting in the way of Saturnian function.