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Venus Retrograde 2025
Venus is retrograde 1 time in 2025, beginning 2 March 2025. Venus governs attraction, value and the terms on which you relate — what you find beautiful, what you think you are worth, what you are willing to give to be close to someone. Its retrograde is traditionally read as a review of those terms, which is why old relationships and old self-images tend to resurface.
Right now
No — Venus is moving direct.
The next Venus retrograde begins 3 October 2026 in Scorpio, 12 days from now, and ends 14 November 2026.
Every 2025 date
| Begins | Ends | Length | Signs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 March 2025 | 13 April 2025 | 42 days | Aries → Pisces |
2 March 2025 – 13 April 2025
Venus stations retrograde on 2 March 2025 at Aries, retreats into Pisces, and turns direct on 13 April 2025 — 42 days in total. Be slow with irreversible changes to your appearance or your finances. If an ex reappears, treat it as information about a pattern rather than as a sign. Notice what you are tolerating for the sake of harmony.
What to actually do with it
Re-evaluating what you charge, what you accept, and what you have been calling love out of habit. Uncomfortable clarity about relationships arrives more easily now than at any other time.
It does not doom relationships. Long partnerships routinely pass through several Venus retrogrades and are unbothered; what it exposes was usually already there.
The mechanism
No planet actually reverses. Retrograde motion is a trick of perspective: Earth and the other planet orbit at different speeds, and when the geometry lines up the other body appears to slide backwards against the fixed stars — the same way a slower train seems to move backwards when yours overtakes it. Astrology reads meaning into that apparent reversal; the astronomy underneath is ordinary.
Related
The full picture for this planet sits on the Venus retrograde page, and what is retrograde right now covers every body at once. To see where Venus falls in your own chart, use the birth chart calculator.
Common questions
- When is Venus retrograde in 2025?
- 2 March 2025 to 13 April 2025 (Aries → Pisces)
- How many times is Venus retrograde in 2025?
- 1 time, totalling about 42 days.
- Does Venus actually move backwards?
- No planet actually reverses. Retrograde motion is a trick of perspective: Earth and the other planet orbit at different speeds, and when the geometry lines up the other body appears to slide backwards against the fixed stars — the same way a slower train seems to move backwards when yours overtakes it. Astrology reads meaning into that apparent reversal; the astronomy underneath is ordinary.