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Of all the planets, Venus in retrograde takes place the least often, moving through her backward spin in the cosmos once every 18 months for approximately 40 days. Even as the remaining planets reverse their course toward the latter half of 2024, Venus in retrograde doesn’t occur at all.
So what, exactly, does that mean?
When Is Venus in Retrograde?
The next Venus retrograde will take place March 1 to April 12, 2025.
What the Time Prior to Venus in Retrograde Means for You
Venus is love. She is beauty. She is balance. She reminds us of our worthiness, our magnetism, and our capacity for harmony. As the goddess archetype, Venus invites us to witness, remember, feel, and create from a space of abundance and pleasure as she brings us together in connection with others. She is deeply attuned to the cycles of the Earth and the pleasures of life.
When a planet is in forward motion, it moves in a manner that allows for expansion and evolution in those areas of life it represents. As Venus continues along its trajectory throughout 2024 and early 2025, we strengthen our connection to beauty and creativity. We build our self-worth. We persevere in our relationships and in the ways by which we relate to partnership, love, intimacy, and collaboration. As we do so, we collect the insights, experiences, and perspectives that each moment brings.
When Venus in retrograde retraces her steps in March 2025, there’s an invitation to bring presence, questioning, space, and reframing to our relationship with everything that she represents. We will review our relationship with the concept of beauty and abundance. We will reflect on how we honor our inherent worthiness and witness our self-value. We will allow for a shift in the dynamics that we bring to relationships, including the ways that we offer and receive love. And we will create space to reorganize our relationship to pleasure, happiness, and harmony.
Until then, however, there is an invitation to dive deep into the felt experiences of Venus. To contemplate all that she represents but also to truly live all that she represents.
Your Invitation Before Venus in Retrograde
Venus reminds us that beauty is always present. A flower. The way eyes sparkle. Art in all its forms. The way we do our best to show we love and care for one another. Sound. There is an entire realm of beauty present in this world. As Venus continues in her forward movement throughout the year, you are invited to welcome more beauty into your life and to feel more of its presence.
Venus supports you in cultivating the safety to begin bringing down the walls around your most vulnerable self as you remember your inherent worthiness, beauty, belonging, and self-love. It’s a time that calls for embodiment practices, mirror work, and spaces and experiences that help you feel beautiful as you. It invites everyday acts of appreciation for self and others.
We are in a gathering phase of Venusian influence on our existence. Gathering experience. Gathering perspectives. Gathering insights. Feel that value begin move through and fill your body, bringing healing to any parts of you that doubted your worthiness. Explore how you would move through the world differently if you lived from this worthiness. What choices would you make? How you would relate to others? Where would your sense of self and identity begin to shift and evolve?
As Venus travels forward through the zodiac, her nuanced modes of expression shift depending on the sign influencing the planet, yet they always come back to her core invitations of connection with beauty, harmony, abundance, pleasure, love, worthiness, and embodiment.
When Venus next retrogrades in March 2025, you will refine what you have been gathering, clear what is no longer relevant, reframe insights, and create the space to process and integrate the vast journey that you have just walked. Until then, simply experience it all.
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