Venus Stationed Direct

Venus retrograde in Pisces/Aries 2025: A Journey into the Unfurnished

Venus is a personal planet, representing love, values, aesthetics, and pleasure. She governs the signs Libra and Taurus, giving her influence over both the harmonious elegance of air and the sensuality of earth.

Her energy seeks unity, peace, beauty, and co-operation. She bestows charm, creative talent, and love for the finer things. Venus attracts, it indulge in art, and form pleasurable connections – but she also warns of vanity, self-indulgence, and superficial pleasures.

In her darker expression, Venus can drift toward irresponsibility, escapism, and seduction. But even in this expression, she reveals valuable truths about our desires and the unconscious patters we follow in love.

Now, take a moment to visual the Venus Archetype

Gently close your eyes, imagine Venus as a radiant goddess, seated upon her throne, surrounded by beauty. With grace and confidence, she calls forth the planets, asking them to bring her what delights her senses and soothes her soul.

This image serves as reminder: Venus does not chase. She attracts.

The Retrograde Journey: A Descent and a Return

When Venus stationed retrograde, she begins a forty-day journey of introspection and hidden transformation. This is a sacred cycle, mirroring ancient myths of descent into the underworld, such as Inanna’s passage through the gates of shadow. Its unconscious, it’s through the abstract image. Venus retrograde stirs something ancient in us – drawing out buried desires, unresolved relationship dynamics, and forgotten wounds around love and worth. It’s not uncommon to revisit old flames, rekindle artistic passions, or confront uncomfortable truths during this time.

Each Venus retrograde cycle picks up where the last left off – about eight years prior in the same natal house. We will walk through a case study later. By tracking these cycles, you can uncover long-term themes and karmic threads related to love, relationship, self-worth, and connection.

During the retrograde, you might feel a sudden imbalance in your relationships, creative life, or sense of self. This imbalance reflects the distance between your current values and your core truth. When the contrast becomes too great, emotional upheaval often follows. But this is a necessary alchemy. Sometimes, the mysterious “ideal” shatters what you thought was stable, revealing illusions in your attachments and intimacy. It’s a test of how much responsibility you’re willing to take for your own heart.

When Venus changes sign during retrograde, it often creates a subtle shift in theme

Symbolically, the goddess becomes a god – an inversion of roles that reflects our own need to explore the hidden or unacknowledged parts of ourselves.

This reversal brings unconscious values to the surface, often clashing with the persona we present to the world. The retrograde period is guiding us back to authenticity.

You can cast a chart for the exact moment stations retrograde. Pay close attention to the sign on the Ascendant and the ruling planet of that sign. Where this sign and planet falls in your natal chart can provide a unique lens through which the retrogrades personal theme or lesson unfold.

This technique reveals which themes will be activated in your life during this period. It can offer insight into where we’re being asked to reconsider our values. Revise our relationships and reconnect with our most personal sources of joy and nourishment.

A CASE STUDY – VENUS RETROGRADE IN ARIES/PISCES IN 2017

Every eight years, Venus retrogrades in roughly the same sign and same part of your natal chart. These cycles us to review and resurrect unfurnished business, often around the same life themes – particularly in love, finances, self-worth, and values. When Venus turns retrograde in the same part of our chart, it echoing the same theme that it has left off eight years ago.

Keywords for Pisces and Aries:

Pisces: Soulful, sensitivity, dreamy love, imaginative, music

Aries: impulsive, bold, assertive, independent desire

Let’s reflect what happens 8 years ago…

The last time Venus was retrograde in Aries/Pisces was in from March 4th to April 2017. Reflect on what was happening in your life during that period – especially around your personal resources, income, self-worth, relationship (2nd house), and your identity (1st house). What began, unravelled, or asked for change?

Consider:

Were you reassessing your relationship to money, what you can re-invest yourself to add value to the existing one?

Did challenges around deservingness or value arise?

Did you re-evaluate your independence, your individuality in your relationship with yourself and others?

Did a relationship (with another or yourself) shift dramatically?

Now, as the cycle repeat but with slightly different angle or perspective – North Node is now in Pisces in the first house, it was in Virgo in the 7th house 8th years ago.

Now, let’s come back to the present, on this case study with a pisces rising.

·      Ascendant Scorpio – Co-ruled by Mars and Pluto

·      Mars (chart ruler): in Cancer at 17°13′, placed in the 5th house

·      Pluto (co-chart ruler) at 2°54′ Aquarius

The 5th house rules:

·      Love affairs, creativity, children, passion, risk-taking

The Ascendant ruler’s placement in the 5th house suggests a re-evaluation of:

·      How you express love and creativity

·      Your romantic history

·      Relationships with children or desire for joy

If Scorpio Rising aligns with your 9th house, the themes of the retrograde expand:

·      Long-distance journeys

·      Education and spiritual or philosophical beliefs

·      Legal matters or publishing

·      A shift in perspective, truth, or life direction

(We can add in, the ruler of the natal 9th house, in this case study is Venus, it also suggests re-evaluating your values in this area of your life, Venus also rules the 4th, where is your base?)

Now layer in the natal houses ruled by Mars (3rd and 10th), and you may see changes in:

Ø  The way you relates to others in your immediate environment, your siblings, your neighbourhood.

Ø  Writing or speaking, and how you present your voice to the world

Ø  Reputation and goals

As you can see, it all interrelated, it will never solely focus on where Venus is retrograding in your chart, it also involve the house that it rules, the planets that it aspected during the retrograde period would reveal what others areas of your life needs to be taken into consideration in your re-evaluation “sheet”. It will show if there is challenge or supported by the planet(s) that its aspected.

It's a mosaic. Each piece tells a story of inner re-alignment.

Venus as the Mirror and the Mystery

Venus retrograde is a mirror that exposes shadow traits and unresolved desires – especially those we don’t want to look at. The deeper imbalance that arises during the retrograde shows us how far we’ve strayed from our core values or creative essence.

The “ideal” of love may now appear flawed. Past emotional pain can be reawakened. We may project fear, shame, or insecurity onto others. But this discomfort is sacred – a signpost toward healing.

After the Storm: Mid-August and the Rebirth

Venus begins to move at the Sun’s pace again around mid-August, signifiying a turning point the integration phase. Many of the lessons from this retrograde become visible.

Journal Prompts:

What was happening in your love life, finances, or self-worth in early 2017

What themes or emotions are resurfacing now?

What lessons are you learning about deservingness, value, and creative joy?

What are you ready to let go of? What are you ready to claim?

Venus, the goddess on her throne, is calling her cosmic court. She asks not just for what pleases her, but for what brings her into balance, truth, and inner beauty. In this retrograde, she descends to the underworld not to escape – but to retrieve a forgotten part of herself.

The date that Venus goes Direct is on the same day as the Full Moon in Libra which occurs at 0:23GMT

It is interesting to see Venus goes Direct the same day as the full moon in Libra, where Venus is ruler of this full moon, it’s going direction motion bring clarity of what’s coming to the peak. 6 months ago, we have Solar Eclipse in Libra on 2nd October 2024 at 10° 24’, this is the opposite degree where Mercury and Venus were pondering during retrograde.

Leave your comments below of any insights that you have gained during the retrograde x