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Cycle of Venus/Śukra 2025 (Days listed in GMT)
The following is adapted from previous newsletters on Venus stationing direct. The difference is the dates, degrees, and other planetary aspects occurring during this cycle.
If you want to review this particular Venus retrograde cycle, you can read the March 2025 News and Views about Venus retrograde conta.cc/3FzF6p6 and about the Sun-Venus conjunction conta.cc/4c0eNnZ. Below is what to expect now that Venus stations direct but not yet at the end of the Retrograde Arc or shadow, which occurs on May 16, 2025, meaning you may still be affected by Venus's journey. Below are the dates of the retrograde stations and retrograde arc of Venus, which stations direct on April 13, 2025 (GMT).
Venus enters Retrograde Arc or Shadow. January 28, 2025
Tropical. 24° Pisces 37' Sidereal. 00° Pisces 30 pūrvabhadrapadā
Venus Stations Retrograde. March 2, 2025
Tropical 10° Aries 50'. Sidereal. 16° Pisces 43’. revatī
Sun-Venus Inferior Conjunction. March 22, 2025
Tropical. 2° Aries 39’. Sidereal 8° Pisces 12’. uttarabhadrapadā
Venus Stations Direct. April 13, 2025
Tropical. 24° Pisces 37’. Sidereal. 00° Pisces 30’ pūrvabhadrapadā
Venus leaves Retrograde Arc or Shadow. May 16, 2025
Tropical 10° Aries 50’. Sidereal. 16° Pisces 43’. revatī
Venus stations direct on April 13, 2025 (GMT), and even though it is regaining speed and moving forward, it will still conjoin the degrees in between their retrograde and direct stations until it leaves the retrograde arc on May 16, 2025. If you look at the list above, and as I have consistently pointed out about the retrograde motion of Venus, and all retrogrades, the degrees in between the retrograde and direct stations are hot degrees. The degree where the planet enters the retrograde arc (shadow) is the degree where the planet eventually stations direct. The degree where the planet leaves the retrograde arc is the degree where the planet stationed retrograde.
Since the degrees in between the retrograde and direct stations are hot, if you have a planet, point, or angle between Tropical. 24° Pisces 37'-10° Aries 50' or Indian Sidereal. 0° Pisces 30'-16° Pisces 43', Venus will conjoin it for the 3rd and final time between April 13-May 16 so it is important to think about what that planet, point, or angle means to you and how it may have impacted your attitudes towards money, relationships, creativity, confidence, etc. beginning around January 28th, when Venus entered the retrograde arc or shadow, and what you have discovered, and how you plan to forge ahead. This should now be a time of relief and awareness but the difference between now and the last six weeks since Venus retrograded on March 2, is that your energy is renewed to finally make some of those changes, and embrace new things regarding what Venus stands for in general-love, prosperity, self-confidence, creativity, etc. and whatever the planet, point, or angle that Venus conjoins in your chart represents. Remember that you now have time to move things forward and enjoy Venus regaining its regular motion.
As we see above, Venus stations direct on April 13, 2025, but it will stay in the retrograde arc or shadow until May 16, 2025, when Venus crosses the degree where it stationed retrograde. That means that if you have a planet, point, or angle around that degree you may be especially affected by the current Venus retrograde cycle. Otherwise, as a general rule that applies to all, the six weeks of the retrograde was the perfect time to review situations, revise projects, and even getting counseling for a situation you want to change. Between April 13, when Venus stations direct, and May 16, when Venus leaves the retrograde arc, is the time to start implementing all the plans you have thought about and can start to make regarding love, prosperity, all personal and professional relationships, and creativity. After May 16, Venus will have finally regained its speed, and everything seems to look more optimistic, and even if the world around you is in a crisis format, you can still feel more positive about your own live and the lives of the people who touch you.
If you have had relationship or financial snafus, which Venus represents, you will be able to finally move forward and beginning the process of making changes you have been thinking about. The road will not be immediately smooth, especially since there will be a Saturn-North Node/Rahu on April 21, and Venus will form its 3rd and final conjunction to the North Node-Rahu (4/24), to Saturn (4/25), and to Neptune (5/2). That just means that while Venus regains its speed, and you start to implement plans you formulated or revised during Venus retrograde, there may be a few more roadblocks, which may just have to do with the situation in the world and not something that you can control, but is something you can plow through with a sense of confidence and the support of everyone close to you. After May 16th, when Venus leaves the retrograde arc, you still may hit obstacles from time to time, but you should feel differently and your renewed sense of self-love, emanates to those around you, and their love and support will emanate back to you. .
Take advantage of the clarity you will start to feel now as Venus goes direct, and remember that retrogrades are an excellent time to review projects and decisions that have to be made but not necessarily the best time to make those decisions. If you have put off making decisions about love, finance, starting a new job, entering into mediation or negotiations, once Venus moves direct, you can continue to do the legwork, and after May 2, and that last conjunction of Venus-Neptune, you will feel as if a load has lifted, and then after May 16, mofe forward with the speed of light. What makes Venus retrograde periods productive are the time and space they offer for planning strategies related to Venus generally, and when Venus goes direct you can act on them. Think about everything you may have reviewed and revised when it comes to Venus and hopefully things will move forward with positivity.
In addition to the degrees that Venus may affect in your chart for a final time, the planet still travels through two signs (Pisces and Aries in the tropical zodiac) and one sign (Pisces in the sidereal zodiac) for a much longer time than usual, making those areas of the chart stand out as places to transform and strengthen especially when it comes to maximizing harmony in an area of your life where you might have experienced more discord and conflict than usual since March 2, 2025.
Rather than going through a sign in about a month, which Venus normally does, Venus will be in tropical Pisces and Aries for five months and sidereal Pisces for four months. This will lengthen the influence Venus has in those signs in your chart, and will cause you to pay more attention to those areas in your chart. And while Venus does represent love, money, harmony, and happiness, when it travels through the signs where it retrogrades, it causes it to act more like an outer planet, meaning that Venus wants those areas of the chart to be happy, and will be forced to make changes, and eliminate unpleasantries in order to achieve that goal. So during this time, look at any planets, points, or angles Venus conjoins during this period, but also look at the houses that encompass tropical Pisces and Aries, and sidereal Pisces since those areas will need to be looked at, examined, tweaked, and ultimately changed even a little if you want to achieve the harmony that Venus enjoys. (Scroll down for more information about Venus influencing the planets and houses in your chart.)
This is the time period for Venus through tropical Pisces/Aries and through sidereal Pisces.
Tropical Venus Ingresses during the retrograde cycle.
Venus enters tropical Pisces. January 3, 2025;
Venus enters tropical Aries. February 4, 2025;
Venus re-enters Pisces. March 27, 2025;
Venus enters Aries. April 30, 2025;
Venus leaves Aries and enters Taurus. June 6, 2025.
5 months between two signs Pisces and Aries.
Sidereal Venus Ingresses during the retrograde cycle.
Venus enters sidereal Pisces. January 27, 2025;
Venus leaves Pisces and enters Aries. May 31, 2025.
4 months in one sign Pisces.
A normally 1-2 day transit of a Venus to a planet, point, or angle in your chart can be about 3 ½ months during the retrograde when it enters and leaves the retrograde arc. Read below which zodiac you use.
Read if you use sidereal Indian astrology. If you have a planet, point or angle in your chart between Sidereal 0° Pisces 30'- 16° Pisces 43', where Venus retrograded, then you will get the final transit of Venus, now direct, conjoining it, and finally you can harmonize whatever that planet, point, or angle means in the chart. If it is a planet that is getting the final effect of Venus, then also scroll down to see the description of which house that planet rules. This is what may be accentuated, examined, and transformed by Venus:
Sun. power, vigor; Moon. maternal, mind; Mars. strength, courage; Mercury. speech, learning; Jupiter. knowledge, wealth; Venus. love, happiness; Saturn. sorrow, fear; Rahu. intensity, compulsion; Ketu. extremes, spirituality; Lagna. destiny, vitality. If you want to use Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and other angles, you can look below at tropical Western astrology for their keywords.
Venus is in sidereal Pisces from January 27-May 31, 2025. The house that Pisces occupies will be harmonized and transformed in these last months of Venus moving direct through them. If you do not know which house sidereal Pisces occupies, look at your ascendant, or Moon, or even your Sun (only if you do not know your ascendant of Moon), and just count from there. General descriptions for bhavas (houses) are as follows:
1. appearance, destiny, temperament, personality, constitution; 2. Money, family life, food, speech, early childhood; 3. Siblings, Fine arts, courage, desires; 4. Mother, happiness, real estate, vehicles; 5. Children, romance, investments, speculation; 6. Open enemies, work, competition, obstacles, illness; 7. Marriage, partners, contracts, passion; 8. Life and death cycle, research, accidents, other's money, inheritance; 9. Father, teacher (guru), religion, higher learning, opportunity; 10. Career, status, public recognition, reputation; 11. Profits, rewards, gains from work, awards, older siblings; 12. spiritual practice, secret enemies, foreign travel, debt, confinement.
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Read if you use tropical Western astrology. If you have a planet, point, or angle in your chart between 24 Pisces 37-10 Aries 50', where Venus retrograded, then you will get the final transit of Venus, now direct, conjoining it, and finally you can harmonize whatever that planet, point, or angle means in the chart. If it is a planet that is getting the final effect of Venus, then also scroll down to see the description of which house that planet rules. This is what may be accentuated, examined, and transformed by Venus:
Sun. vitality, individuality, ego; Moon. emotions, habits, conditioning; Mercury. communication, intelligence; Venus. love, beauty, creativity; Mars. physical energy, aggression, courage; Jupiter. expansion, abundance; Saturn. limitation, disciplined, fear; Uranus. originality, independent, rebellious; Neptune. spiritual, immaterial, imagination; Pluto. intensity, power; North Node. power, place where you must strive; South Node. place where it is easy, habits; Ascendant. personality, destiny; IC. home, family, mother; Descendant. partnerships, contracts; Midheaven. career, father
Venus enters tropical Pisces. January 3, 2025; Venus enters tropical Aries. February 4, 2025; Venus re-enters Pisces. March 27, 2025; Venus enters Aries. April 30, 2025; Venus leaves Aries and enters Taurus. June 6, 2025. The houses that Pisces and Aries occupy will be harmonized and transformed in these last months of Venus moving direct through them. If you do not know which house tropical Pisces and Aries occupy, look at your ascendant or Sun (if you do not know your ascendant), and just count from there. General descriptions for houses are as follows:
1. personality, body, appearance; 2. finances, possessions, values. 3. communication, siblings, short journeys, learning; 4. family, mother, home; 5. children, recreation, entertainment; 6. health, service, pets; 7. marriage, contracts, partnership; 8. business transactions, sexuality, life and death matters; 9. higher education, travel abroad, publishing, law; 10. profession, status, father; 11. gains, friendships, hopes, dreams; 12. compassion, spirituality, limitations, solitude.
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