Venus, the planet of love, intimacy, beauty, and desire begins her retrograde journey on the 1st March 2025, moving from 10 degrees Aries before retreating back to 29 degrees Pisces on the 27th March, and finally stationing direct on the 12th April at 24 Pisces.

Venus retrograde is a descent, a stripping away, a re-evaluation of what (and who) holds true value in our lives. Aries demands self-sovereignty, while Pisces dissolves into the vastness of it all. In this cycle, we confront themes of desire, identity, illusion, and surrender. What’s been hidden comes to the surface. What’s been unconscious begins to stir. Love, money, and self-worth all move through a period of reckoning and redefinition.

Here’s how Venus Retrograde will activate your rising sign in the Spring of 2025:

❤️‍🔥 Aries Rising: With Venus stationing retrograde in your 1st house, this cycle asks you to strip back the layers of identity that no longer fit. Have you been defining yourself by relationships, external validation, or old patterns of attraction? This period is a profound reclamation of Self - of what you truly desire, of how you move through the world unapologetically. When Venus moves into Pisces and your 12th house, the process turns inward. What needs to be surrendered in order to embody this process of reclamation? What subconscious beliefs about love and your worth are keeping you bound to an old way of being? This is a journey of softening into your truth while letting go of what has dimmed your fire.

❤️‍🔥 Taurus Rising: Venus is your ruler, which means you feel her retrogrades more deeply than most. Beginning this descent through your 12th house, this retrograde is about endings, closure, and unseen influences on your love life and self-worth. Some relationships may drift away. Old love stories may echo through your dreams. When Venus shifts into Pisces and your 11th house, themes around friendships, soul connections, and your vision for the future come into focus. Who are you surrounding yourself with Taurus? Are your relationships expansive or limiting?

❤️‍🔥 Gemini Rising: As Venus traverses back through your 11th house, your relationships within groups, friendships, and larger aspirations are up for review. Do you feeling aligned with your greater vision? Have you been settling for surface-level connections rather than ones that truly nourish you? It’s to be value yourself more within the communities that hold meaning to you. Proritise them. When Venus is back in Pisces and your 10th house, the focus turns toward your career and public image. Your legacy. What do you want to be known for? Are you making choices based on external approval Gemini, or are you leading from a place of deeper meaning?

❤️‍🔥 Cancer Rising: Your 10th house of career, success, and public life is under Venus’ review as she begins her underworld descent. Are you following a path that aligns with your values, or have you been moulding yourself to fit societal expectations? Does your business, your work, your passions align with what you actually want to build and create? Old ambitions may resurface, asking if they still hold resonance. Make the change. When Venus dips back into Pisces and your 9th house, the focus shifts to the bigger picture Cancer - your beliefs, your spirituality, and your desire to explore beyond familiar landscapes. Where is your soul calling you to expand?

❤️‍🔥 Leo Rising: With Venus retrograde beginning in your 9th house, your belief systems, philosophies, and desire for adventure are shifting. Where have you limited yourself in love, creativity, or personal growth out of fear of the unknown? This is a time to reflect on whether your vision and beliefs are truly your own, or if it they have been shaped by external, outdated values and influences. As Venus moves into Pisces and your 8th house, deeper emotional and energetic entanglements come into play. What needs to be released to allow real intimacy and transformation?

❤️‍🔥 Virgo Rising: This Venus retrograde is an intensely personal cycle as it moves through your 8th house of intimacy, power, and shared resources. Old fears around vulnerability may arise. Relationships take on a karmic tone, revealing where control, trust, and emotional depth need to be addressed. When Venus moves back into Pisces and your 7th house, relationships take centre stage. Who is truly aligned with your heart? Can they meet you with the emotional depth you are seeking? This is an Venus initiation into deeper, more soulful connections for you.

❤️‍🔥 Libra Rising: As Venus, your ruler, begins its retrogrades in your 7th house relationships past and present come into focus. If you’ve been avoiding difficult conversations, they may rise to the surface now. If you’ve compromised too much, this is where you stand firm reclaim your boundaries. When Venus returns to Pisces and your 6th house, the focus shifts to how you show up daily in love and self-care. How can you cultivate a rhythm that feels nourishing rather than depleting? This Venus retrograde helps you find balance between giving to others and giving - and serving - yourself.

❤️‍🔥 Scorpio Rising: Your 6th house of work, routine, and well-being is undergoing a Venusian review. Are your daily rhythms supporting your deeper desires, or have they become disconnected from what actually brings you joy? Re-evaluating your health and daily routines can help you feel more supported and nourished again if you’ve felt like you’ve been burned the candle at both ends. When Venus moves back into Pisces and your 5th house, the energy lightens. Creativity, romance, and pleasure take centre stage. Love takes on quite a poetic, nostalgic quality. What old creative passions or past lovers might be resurfacing? How can you call in more aligned love, passion and creativity to feel your spark come alive again?

❤️‍🔥 Sagittarius Rising: With Venus retrograde in your 5th house, love, creativity, and self-expression take on a more reflective tone. This cycle is about pleasure, joy, and passion, and recognising that life has felt perhaps a little lacklustre here of late? Have you been prioritising your own heart’s desires, or have you been caught in cycles of seeking validation? When Venus moves back into Pisces and your 4th house, the focus shifts toward your home, emotional foundations, and also family. What does safety and belonging truly mean to you? How can find more value here in order to create a more stable foundation for your creative, playful spirit?

❤️‍🔥 Capricorn Rising: Your 4th house of home, family, and ancestry is in the retrograde spotlight as March begins. This particular retrograde may bring questions around where you belong, past family dynamics, or even literal changes in your living space. What do you really value relating to themes? What is - and isn’t - worth fighting for here? When Venus moves into Pisces and your 3rd house, the focus shifts to communication and self-expression. What words have been left unspoken? What needs to be said from a place of heart-centred truth? Late March and April provides the right environment to have these heart-felt conversations. It’s a powerful time for you to clear the air and to reclaim these unspoken words.

❤️‍🔥 Aquarius Rising: As Venus retrogrades in your 3rd house, your voice, mindset, and relationships with siblings or close community come into review. What stories have you been telling yourself about love, your worth, and connection? Old patterns of communication may surface, asking to be reworked. What is worth voicing, and what is best left unsaid until Venus resurfaces again. Speak wisely. When Venus moves back into Pisces and your 2nd house, the tone shifts to self-worth and your finances. Where are you undervaluing yourself? Where are you over-giving, over-spending? Venus helps you to regain clarity in ways that make you feel more supported, more held, and secure as we move forward into the Spring.

❤️‍🔥 Pisces Rising: Venus begins its retrograde moving through your 2nd house of worth, money, and self-value. Have you been outsourcing your sense of security to relationships, finances, or external approval? This retrograde asks you to realign your values with what truly sustains you. When Venus returns to Pisces and your 1st house, the focus shifts to self-love and identity. Who are you becoming? What version of yourself feels most aligned, most authentic, most free? The biggest theme of this retrograde for you is to do it your way - not their way. Do it kindly Pisces, but unapologetically.