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Retrograde Cycle of Venus/Śukra 2025 (Days in GMT)
Venus enters Retrograde Arc or Shadow. January 28, 2025. Tropical. 24° Pisces 37'
Sidereal. 00° Pisces 30 pūrvabhadrapadā. The degree where Mars eventually stations direct. 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 (The conjunction is closest to earth, midway through the retrograde cycle, when Venus rises as a Morning Star 3-8 days after conjunction.)
Venus Stations Direct. April 13, 2025. Tropical. 24° Pisces 37’. Sidereal. 00° Pisces 30’
pūrvabhadrapadā
Venus leaves Retrograde Arc (Shadow). May 16, 2025. Tropical 10° Aries 50’.
Sidereal. 16° Pisces 43’. revatī. The degree where Mars retrograded.
The following is adapted from other newsletters about Venus, but the dates and degrees are different.
Right now Venus is in its retrograde cycle from March 2-April 13, 2025. Venus retrogrades every 18 months and you can see above the degrees where Venus stations according to both the tropical and the sidereal zodiac. As I spoke about in the February 2025 newsletter, Part 2.
(conta.cc/41lloFZ). Venus entered the retrograde arc, or shadow, which is when it crosses the degree where it will eventually station direct. This year that was on January 28, 2025. Tropical. 24° Pisces 37'. Sidereal. 00° Pisces 30 pūrvabhadrapadā. From that date forward, we began to experience the types of events that will occur now that Venus is indeed retrograde. It also means that if you have any planets, points, or angles in your chart between Tropical 24° Pisces 37' Sidereal. 0° Pisces 30' (where Venus goes direct) and Tropical 10° Aries 50'. Sidereal. 16° Pisces 43' (where Venus goes retrograde) Venus will conjoin it three times, when it goes direct, when it retrogrades and when it goes direct again. If you have anything that is one degree ahead or behind the above degrees then you will really feel the transit twice because that will be on the stationary degree which is where Venus stays for a period of time. Take note of what has been happening or what will happen when Venus hits something in your chart at that degree. If you do not have anything that falls in between the above degrees, look at the house that it is in, since Venus, which normally passes through a degree in a day or two, will now hang around tropical Pisces and Aries for five months, and sidereal Pisces. Scroll down for exact dates and how it affects your chart.
Retrograde planets occur when the planet is closest to earth and slows up in its orbit as seen from the earth. At present Venus is still an evening star, rising and setting after the Sun and is still spectacular if you look at the evening sky even though it was at its brightest around February 14. It will still be visible until March 18, 2025, when Venus has its heliacal setting, meaning the last time you can see Venus, before inferior conjunction with the Sun on March 22, midway through the retrograde cycle and closest to earth, and 3-5 days later will have its heliacal rising, first time Morning Star is visible after conjunction. As the Morning Star, meaning it rises and sets before the Sun. More about the conjunction in another News & Views this month, and in my Venus webinar, which you can purchase.
Since Venus will be in tropical Pisces and Aries for five months, and sidereal Pisces for four months, it lengthens 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 houses.) This is the time period for Venus through those signs.
Tropical Venus Ingresses during the retrograde
•Venus enters tropical Pisces. January 3, 2025
•Venus enters tropical Aries. February 4, 2025.
•Venus stations retrograde 10° Aries 50’. March 2, 2025
•Venus re-enters Pisces. March 27, 2025
•Venus stations direct 24° Pisces 37’. April 13, 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
•Venus enters sidereal Pisces. January 27, 2025
•Venus stations retrograde 16° Pisces 43’. March 2, 2025.
•Venus stations direct 0° Pisces 30’. April 13, 2025.
•Venus leaves Pisces and enters Aries. May 31, 2025.
4 months in one sign Pisces.
A normally 1-2 day transit 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.
During this retrograde, as a general rule in the world there will be a lot of rethinking and reviewing anything represented by Venus, which can mean love, money, relationships, vehicles, and even homes and the security they bring. Venus may not bring the love, wealth, confidence and harmony you look to Venus to bring, but instead there can be discord, misunderstandings, high expectations, which will need to be lowered to avoid disappointment, and overspending. Watch for the days around the conjunction between March 19-25, 2025, between the heliacal rising and setting, since that means that Venus is combust, and to the ancients who looked at the sky the disappearance of Venus from view meant that everything Venus represents could disappear. Once the heliacal rise takes place around the 25th-28th, there may be some anger and even violent moods because now Venus will be in a new morning star phase, which the ancients likened to a more aggressive period of time. (More about this in the Venus Retrograde webinar, and another News & Views nearer to the conjunction.)
On a personal note, during Venus retrograde periods, the ability to love, value, and earn may be curtailed or delayed. Money markets may not rebound as quickly, and people may be stuck in relationship limbo. If single, you may not meet people as quickly, or a new relationship may simply take longer to blossom. If in a relatiioinship, it is time to try to improve things that have been stuck or unsettling. There should be more saving and conserving since money can fluctuate, rather than borrowing and spending. Even if you wanted to indulge in a second home or new car, you may not have much of a choice, since interest rates will still be high and lending institutions will continue to be cautious, and extra funds might not be readily available. Don't act impulsively when it comes to matters of the heart or bank account. If it can be avoided, don't get married, plan a honeymoon, or ask for a raise or promotion. Wait until Venus goes direct to do the legwork if you are involved in mediation, lawsuits, or job negotiations, and wait another week or two until Venus regains its speed, to pursue them fully. What makes Venus retrograde periods productive are the time and space they offer for planning strategies related to Venus generally, but also the house that Venus passes through and any planets, points, or angles, retrograde Venus conjoins.
What makes this retrograde cycle more intense is Venus framing the following.
- Total Lunar Eclipse. March 14, 2025.
Tropical. 23° Virgo 56’. Sidereal. 29° Leo 49’. pūrvabhadrapadā
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Mercury stations Retrograde (vakra). March 15, 2025
Tropical. 09° Aries 35'. Sidereal. 15° Pisces 28’ uttarabhadrapadā
- Partial Solar Eclipse. March 29, 2025.
Tropical. 9° Aries 0’. Sidereal. 14° Pisces 53’. pūrvabhadrapadā
- Mercury stations Direct. April 7, 2025
Tropical. 26°Pisces 49' Sidereal. 02° Pisces 42’. pūrvabhadrapadā
Additionally the following conjunctions with Venus occur 3 times, which makes the above degreees and the following degrees more potent, and if you have anything around these degrees keep an eye out for Venus moving and shaking what it touches in your chart since it occurs three times, when Venus is direct, retrograde, and direct again.
• February 1, 2025. Venus D conjunct Neptune. Tropical. 27° Pisces 59’. Sidereal. 3° Pisces 52'
• March 27, 2025. Venus R conj. Neptune. Tropical. 29° Pisces 53’. Sidereal. 05° Pisces 46'
• May 2, 2025. Venus D conjunct Neptune. Tropical. 01° Aries 08' Sidereal. 07° Pisces 02’
• February. 1, 2025. Venus D conjunct N. Node-Rāhu. Tropical. 28° Pisces 09’. Sidereal. 21° Aquarius 58'
• April 1, 2025. Venus R conjunct N. Node-Rāhu. Tropical. 27° Pisces 21’. Sidereal. 03° Pisces 14'
• April 24, 2025. Venus D conjunct N. Node-Rāhu. Tropical. 26° Pisces 54’. Sidereal. 02° Pisces 47’
•January 19, 2025. Venus D conjunct Saturn. Tropical. 16° Pisces 05’. Sidereal. 21° Aquarius 58'
•April 7, 2025. Venus R conjunct Saturn. Tropical. 25° Pisces 15’. Sidereal. 01° Pisces 08'
•Apr 25, 2025. Venus D conjunct Saturn. Tropical. 27° Pisces 13’. Sidereal. 03° Pisces 06’
That makes the journey of Venus even more intense. In the world, that means that prosperity and harmony will go through many twists and turns, over the next few months, not simply when Venus stations direct on April 13, 2025, but when it leaves the retrograde arc (shadow) on May 16, 2025.
Harmony, and the desire for love and peace could be shaken up, especially during the first two conjunctions, when Venus is direct, then retrograde. The third conjunction takes place when Venus is direct and there may just be some movement in a better direction after harmony is disrupted. We will keep revisiting this as the month moves forward.
The good news is that Venus will shake things up in order to restore a feeling of harmony, prosperity, love and happiness. If you are having relationship issues, go to counseling now because when Venus goes direct you will use the tools you have acquired to heal and communicate more. If you have been spending too much money, but want to go on a costly vacation, just do budgeting and find a great way to travel that is not necessarily luxurious and out of your income range, but is still fun, stimulating, and exciting. This is the time to do research and utilize all the travel bargains available to you. It is not a good time to acquire more debt. And this period is one in which working hard to perfect professional and personal relationships will have a very happy ending. Retrograde periods are always a good time to go inward and reevaluate things in your life and around you pertaining to what the retrograde planet represents and in the case of Venus it has to do with love, understanding, prosperity, and mostly self-esteem, self-worth, and the ability to take control over situations in our life that we can control.
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' then you will get the Venus transit three times and this is what may be accentuated, examined, and transformed by Venus so that any difficulties in this area can be reexamined and harmonized. This is in general what will be affected if Venus hits these planets and angle.
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.
If you do not know which house sidereal Pisces occupies, just count from your lagna (rising sign or ascendant), or Moon, or even your Sun. Scroll above for the dates that Venus enters Pisces. 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.
Read if you use tropical Western astrology. If you have a planet, point or angle in your chart between Tropical 24° Pisces 37’- 10° Aries 50' then you will get the Venus transit three times and this is what may be accentuated, examined, and transformed by Venus so that any difficulties in this area can be reexamined and harmonized. This is in general what will be affected if Venus hits these planets and angles.
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
If you do not know which house tropical Pisces and Aries occupy, just count from your Sun sign or your rising sign (ascendant). Scroll above for the dates that Venus enters Pisces and Aries. 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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