When: March 1st – April 12th, 2025 
What: Venus retrograde in Aries and Pisces

TL;DR: Venus retrograde is a course correction of the heart. A necessary pause. An invitation to examine what we’ve been taught to want, who we’ve been conditioned to love, and what we’ve been told we deserve. This is not just about romance, it’s about self-worth. It’s about the contracts we’ve made, knowingly or not, with love, beauty, money, and desire. Venus retrograde does not return what was lost. It reveals why it was never truly yours. Why you let it go. Why it slipped through your fingers. And why, no matter how tightly you hold on, some things are meant to end.

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Venus retrograde is a course correction of the heart, a reversal of the currents that pull us toward pleasure, love, and material entanglement. It is the planetary embodiment of the quote: "Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want." - Eric Jorgenson and Naval Ravikant. When Venus retrogrades, the terms of that contract are revisited, renegotiated, or outright burned. What we crave, what we attract, and what we believe we deserve all come under scrutiny.

From March 1 to April 12, 2025, Venus moves backward through Aries and Pisces. When she enters Pisces, fantasy dissolves. Illusions crack. Unresolved emotions rise to the surface. The past is closer than it seems. Aries demanded action, but Pisces dissolves it. The battlefield turns to fog. The passion turns to longing. What you fought for now feels like a dream slipping through your fingers.

Where have you romanticized the past or held onto a dream that no longer belongs to you? This is not new. You have been here before. Look back to the last Venus Rx,  March 4th to April 15th, 2017.  

Venus in Aries (March 1 – April 3)

Aries is not a patient lover. Venus here doesn’t wait, doesn’t compromise, doesn’t soften her wants to make them more acceptable. She lunges, she claims, she fights. But in retrograde, that fire doesn’t propel forward, it circles. Old desires return, old lovers reappear, old wounds refuse to close. The past becomes an echo chamber. The urgency doesn’t disappear; it just turns inward, burning from the inside out.

Aries is ruled by Mars, and Mars is not sentimental. So if you think this retrograde is going to be about nostalgia, about sweetly revisiting the past to find closure, think again. This is war magick. A moment of clarity with the self. A confrontation with how you have fought for love, or failed to.

Venus in Pisces (April 3 – April 12)

Then the retreat. Pisces. The battlefield dissolves into fog. Aries is direct action, but Pisces is the dream. The undoing. The love that slips through your fingers. What does Venus retrograde in Pisces bring? The love that never quite ended, the love that never quite materialized. The illusion of sacrifice, the self-delusion of martyrdom. Venus is exalted in Pisces, but in retrograde, she’s not quite herself. She second-guesses. She wonders if the sacrifice was worth it. She revisits the places she left herself behind.

Venus last retrograded through Aries and Pisces in March–April 2017 and before that in March–April 2009. A cycle completing itself, or reopening. You should know: Venus retrograde is not just about romance. It’s about worth. What you once believed you deserved. What you settled for. Here’s the thing about Venus retrograde: it reveals. It strips away the illusion, the justifications, the pretty lies you tell yourself about love, about worth, about what is and isn’t possible. And once you see, you can’t unsee. That’s the point.

So. What did 2017 teach you? What patterns are repeating? What love stories, heartbreaks, and self-worth lessons remain unfinished? The past is knocking, and it’s inside the house.

Venus stations retrograde in Aries – March 1, 2025 (7:36 PM EST)

The descent begins. Venus stops moving forward, shifting the focus from attraction to introspection. This is a moment of heightened urgency, an immediate return of old desires, old lovers, old conflicts that never fully resolved. Expect restlessness. Expect confrontation with the self.

Sun conjoins Venus Rx in Aries – March 22, 2025 (9:07 PM EST)

This is the heart of the retrograde. A moment of clarity, when Venus disappears into the heart of the Sun, burning away distractions and revealing a deeper truth. This is a turning point, a realization about love, money, self-worth, or creative expression that cannot be ignored. What is witnessed here will shape what comes next.

Venus Rx re-enters Pisces – March 27, 2025 (4:40 AM EST)

The fire dies down, the battlefield dissolves, and suddenly, you are walking through mist. Where Aries demanded action, Pisces asks for surrender. The chase turns into longing. The certainty of Aries is replaced by questions- was it ever real? Was it ever meant to be? This is where we romanticize the past, where dreams slip through our fingers. If Aries was about fighting for love, Pisces is about grieving it.

Venus Rx conjoins Neptune in Pisces – March 27, 2025 (9:13 AM EST)

Neptune is illusion. Neptune is longing. Neptune is the love story that exists more in memory than reality. When Venus meets Neptune in retrograde, we see where we have deceived ourselves. This is a beautiful transit for art, for poetry, for nostalgia - but a dangerous one for clarity. Beware of old fantasies returning in disguise. Not everything that glitters is gold.

Venus Rx conjoins the North Node in Pisces – April 1, 2025 (4:38 AM EST)

A fated encounter. The North Node pulls us toward the future, but Venus retrograde is caught in the past. This is a collision of old patterns and new possibilities. A lesson in worth, love, and what must be left behind in order to move forward.

Venus stations direct in Pisces – April 12, 2025 (9:02 PM EST)

The cycle completes. Venus stops moving backward and begins her slow return to forward motion. The journey from Aries to Pisces has been one of confrontation and surrender - facing the ways we fight for love, and then learning to let go of what was never truly ours. What was once unclear now sharpens into focus. The past releases its grip. The dream fades. Reality returns.

Revisiting Past Relationships

Love doesn’t always end with finality. Some connections fade, not from lack of feeling, but from timing, distance, or the weight of what was left unsaid. Some end because they had to, because the version of you that loved them could not continue as you were. Sometimes, we walk away from something before we fully understand what we’re leaving. And yet, Venus retrograde pulls the past back into the present, placing old loves and lost desires in front of you once again.

Venus Rx allows for the possibility that something unfinished may still have life in it. If an ex reappears, if you feel pulled toward someone you once knew, this is the time to ask: Is there something here that still deserves exploration? This is not about throwing yourself into old patterns just because they feel familiar. This is about discernment. About seeing what you couldn’t see before. About revisiting past relationships with a clearer sense of who you are now. Questions to ask yourself: Am I reaching for this person because I miss them, or because I miss who I was when I was with them? Has anything truly changed, or am I just longing for comfort? If this person were brand new to me, would I still choose them?

Not every ember needs to be reignited. But, if you reconnect with a past partner, wait until Venus stations direct on April 12 before making any permanent decisions. What feels like a "meant to be" moment now may shift when Venus moves forward again.

The Other Transits That Shape is Venus Rx

Venus retrograde already pulls at you, while other planetary transits layer over it: Mercury retrograde, two eclipses, and Neptune’s shift into Aries. Every planetary shift during this retrograde is a pressure point, a challenge, a test of whether your past choices still hold, or whether they need to be reconsidered.

Mercury Retrograde in Aries & Pisces (March 15 – April 7, 2025)

Venus retrograde rewrites desire; Mercury retrograde scrambles the signal. Both move backward through Aries and Pisces, twisting the past in different ways. Words slip, distort, disappear. A message you’ve been waiting for may never arrive. A conversation you thought was over might restart with no warning. What was once certain is now tangled in hesitation.

Aries ignites impulse. You may send a text before you’ve thought it through. You may say something you can’t take back. Mercury here is impatient, reactive, willing to burn bridges and build them again within the same breath. But when Mercury falls back into Pisces, the tone shifts. Clarity dissolves. Meaning becomes fluid. Someone may reach out, but not know why. Apologies may be spoken, but not hold.

What’s said during this retrograde may not be the full truth, it may not even be the truth at all. If you are looking for something solid to hold onto, wait.

Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo (March 13, 2025)

Lunar eclipses are swift, decisive, and unsentimental. They don’t wait for you to be ready. They arrive as severance, as endings that can no longer be delayed. This one, in Virgo, sign of discernment and purification, cuts away what is flawed, what is unsustainable, what no longer holds. It occurs just as Venus reaches the heart of her retrograde, doubling down on the need for reassessment.

If you’ve been holding onto something that has already expired, a relationship that’s lost its foundation, a financial decision that no longer supports you, a belief about love or self-worth that keeps you bound, this eclipse will rip off the disguise. Virgo does not deal in fantasy. It does not allow you to keep pretending something works when it doesn’t.

Partial Solar Eclipse in Aries (March 29, 2025)

Solar eclipses signal beginnings, initiations, bold leaps forward. But when Venus is retrograde, beginnings don’t always hold. This Aries eclipse charges the atmosphere with urgency, to claim, to chase, to act. The temptation will be to move quickly, to grasp at what is returning, to say yes before you understand the consequences.

Aries wants action. But Venus in Pisces is still dissolving, unraveling, undoing. A new opportunity may appear: a relationship, a creative pursuit, a career shift. But is it real, or just the first thing to fill the void? Before you move forward, ask: Am I choosing this because I truly want it? Or because I don’t want to sit with what I’ve lost?

This eclipse is a match, a spark, a rush of momentum. But not every fire is meant to be lit. Before you act, make sure it’s not just an escape disguised as an opportunity. What’s real will still be there when the dust settles.

Neptune Enters Aries (March 30, 2025)

Neptune’s entrance into Aries is the end of one era and the ignition of another. After 14 years in Pisces, dissolving boundaries and eroding certainty, making us long for something bigger, more divine, more all-encompassing, Neptune now shifts into Aries, a sign that does not wait for the dream to arrive, it chases it. The collective moves from surrender to pursuit. the timing of this shift is messy. Venus, still deep in her retrograde, has just slipped back into Pisces. The past is not yet done with us. The illusion does not break, it mutates. The fantasy you thought you were finished with may regain its hold. A lost love may start to seem possible again. A dream you left behind may suddenly feel like the only thing that matters. But is it real? Or is it simply the pull of Neptune, reshaping desire, distorting longing, making the past feel like the future?

Neptune in Aries calls us to move, to initiate, to claim what we want. But Venus in Pisces is still dissolving, still undoing, still unraveling the truth from the illusion. As Neptune shifts, ask yourself: Is this a dream worth chasing, or just the first thing to appear in the void? As Venus finishes her retrograde and Neptune fully settles into Aries, clarity will come.

How This Can Unfold

The past returns to be understood. Old lovers, former friends, unresolved connections, they surface to be mirrors. And, not everything that knocks on your door is meant to be let back in.

Wounds around love and rejection reopen, not to break you, but to show you where healing never fully took root. If it still stings, it still speaks. Listen.

Money moves differently under Venus retrograde. What once felt secure may shift. What once seemed unattainable may suddenly resurface. Expenses you forgot about return for repayment. Investments demand reevaluation. The way you spend, save, and assign value, both to currency and to yourself is no longer automatic. Pay attention.

Creative energy shifts. What once flowed may stall. What once felt certain may dissolve. This is not failure. This is revision.

How to Work with Venus Retrograde

The past does not return as an invitation. It returns as a test. What have you learned? What are you still gripping with both hands? What must be burned to the ground?

1. Don’t Rekindle Old Flames Without a Reality Check. If someone from your past resurfaces, observe rather than act. Nostalgia is not truth. Time will reveal what needs no further explanation. No sudden moves. No declarations. Let the story unfold before you decide if you still belong in it. Venus stations direct on April 12. Until then, nothing is certain.

2. Take Inventory of Your Self-Worth. Retrogrades pull energy inward, forcing an inventory of what we’ve ignored. Where have you undervalued yourself? In love, in work, in the quiet spaces where no one is watching? Venus does not reward what is unclaimed. If you want more, decide you are worth it first.

3. Hold Off on Major Beauty Changes. Venus rules adornment. Expression. The way you shape yourself to be seen. But during retrograde, vision is skewed. The hair dye, the tattoo, the wardrobe overhaul. What feels like reinvention now may feel like regret later. When do you feel most like yourself? When do you feel most real? Let that guide you forward, rather than the impulse to disappear and emerge as someone new.

4. Be Mindful with Money & Investments. Venus governs wealth and material security. Under retrograde, currency moves differently. What once felt stable may shift. What seemed impossible may return. Wait before making major financial commitments. Purchases made now may not hold their value. Investments may not be what they seem. Venus retrograde reveals financial blind spots.

5. Release Old Fantasies. Pisces dissolves illusions. The dreams you were once chasing, do they still belong to you? The love you swore would last forever, was it ever real, or just a story you needed at the time?

6. Revisit, Don’t Launch. Venus retrograde resurrects old inspiration. A forgotten creative project calls to you, a once-abandoned pursuit flickers back to life. This is not the time to start something new. Instead, return to what was left undone. Reread your old drafts. Dust off your unfinished paintings. Pick up the instrument, the brush, the poem that once felt like a lifeline. There is gold buried in the past, but it must be refined before it sees the light.

7. Look Back to 2017 & 2009 for patterns. Venus last retrograded through Aries-Pisces in March–April 2017 and March–April 2009. What was happening in your love life then? Your finances? Your sense of self-worth? What was unraveling? What was just beginning? If the same themes are resurfacing now, this is not a coincidence. This is a cycle repeating itself, offering you another choice.

Venus Retrograde Horoscopes

♈ Aries & Aries Rising

Venus stations retrograde in your 1st house of identity, selfhood, and autonomy, dragging you back through the versions of yourself you once were in love, in ambition, in pursuit. You may feel the urge to change something - your hair, your name, the way you walk into a room. But this is not the moment for reinvention. This is a moment of recognition. What parts of yourself did you discard in past relationships? What desires have you twisted to fit someone else’s mold? If a former lover returns, ask yourself if you want them, or just the person you were with them.

Then, on April 3, Venus re-enters Pisces, slipping into your 12th house of hidden truths, endings, and the subconscious. Here, the fire burns out. Old grief resurfaces. The ghosts of past loves come to haunt you. A sacrifice you made in the name of love, a loss you never fully grieved, a dream you left behind, they all come rushing in. By April 12, the question will no longer be who do I want? but who am I without them?

♉ Taurus & Taurus Rising

Venus, your ruling planet, disappears into the underworld of your chart, where old dreams, unspoken words, and unfinished stories surface. At first, this is subtle. A name you haven’t thought of in years reappears. A feeling you buried creeps in through a song, a dream, a photo. But the further Venus moves back, the less avoidable it becomes. If you’ve been carrying an old heartbreak, it will find its way into your present. When Venus re-enters Aries, the illusions end. What was once hidden becomes obvious. If you abandoned a vision, if you lost a friendship to time or distance, this is when they return. The past doesn’t stay buried, and old lovers, betrayals, or self-sabotaging behaviors re-emerge to be understood. Who have you been in your relationships? What have you settled for in the name of comfort? As Venus stations direct, you will be left with a choice: to continue carrying what weighs you down, or to finally fix mistakes from the past.

♊ Gemini & Gemini Rising

What happens when the people you thought you left behind find their way back to you? Venus begins its descent in the sector of friendships and collaborations, bringing back old connections, past creative partnerships, and long-forgotten goals. This is about your legacy, the alliances you’ve built, and the future you’ve been working toward. A friend from another lifetime reappears, or perhaps an unfinished project resurfaces. When Venus slips back into Pisces, your career and public life take the hit. Did you pursue something for the sake of validation rather than true fulfillment? A professional opportunity from the past may return. Do you want it, or do you just want to prove you could have had it? The image you’ve projected may need to shift. By the time Venus moves forward again, your direction clears, but only if you’ve been willing to sit with the discomfort.

♋ Cancer & Cancer Rising

Venus retrograde moves through your career and public image, forcing you to examine the structures you’ve built your ambitions upon. An old opportunity may return, or a path you abandoned might call you back. There’s a need to reassess why you wanted what you wanted in the first place. Was it for status? Power? Security? Recognition? Or did you mistake someone else’s measure of success for your own? This retrograde unearths the truth about what drives you. If you’ve been seeking validation through achievement, Aries will make the hunger unbearable. If you’ve been holding onto a career identity that no longer fits, Aries will set it on fire. When Venus moves into Pisces, your beliefs shift. The tower collapses. A philosophy you once stood by no longer holds. A mentor from the past may reappear, or an old plan to return to school, travel, or write may find its way back to you. By April 12, the illusion will have lifted. What once felt like an impossible question will answer itself. Whether you reclaim an old dream or abandon it for good, you will know what was real and what was just another ladder leading nowhere.

♌ Leo & Leo Rising

Venus retrograde forces you to face your own illusions about love, risk, and the future. You may find yourself drawn back to a person, an idea, or a version of yourself that once felt limitless. You have a tendency to romanticize the past. To look back and see only the gold. But Venus in Aries isn’t sentimental. A romance from the past may resurface, or a creative endeavor you once abandoned may return for a second chance. Venus in Aries demands honesty, and by the time it retrogrades into Pisces, the fantasy gives way to reality. Pisces pulls you into the depths of emotional and financial entanglements. Old debts, both literal and metaphorical, come due. What have you borrowed from others? What have you given away without question? If a past relationship resurfaces, so does the cost of what you gave to it. What did you trade away for connection? What part of yourself got smaller to make room for someone else? There’s no sidestepping the truth here. By April 12, you’ll know what’s worth investing in and what has already run its course.

♍ Virgo & Virgo Rising

Venus retrograde drags you through the territory of work, daily routines, health, and relationships before pulling you deeper into intimacy, shared resources, and deep emotional ties. At first, this retrograde looks like a simple reassessment of how you manage your responsibilities, but as Venus continues her retrograde, it becomes clear that what’s really at stake is who you allow into your most vulnerable spaces and what you’ve given away without realizing it. If you've given too much—emotionally, financially, or energetically. This retrograde makes it obvious. You may find yourself revisiting past relationships that left you feeling drained, old investments that didn’t pay off, or debts that need to be settled. This is about the energetic exchanges that have shaped your life. By April 3, Venus backs into your 7th house of relationships, making it clear that the dynamics playing out in your personal connections are directly tied to deeper issues of power and worth. A past partner may reappear, not necessarily to rekindle, but to remind you of what you accepted and why. Are you the one who always compromises, always bends? If you’ve been involved in a business or romantic partnership that has felt unbalanced, this retrograde forces you to confront the reality of that dynamic. By April 12, the illusions lift. You will know what relationships deserve your energy and where you need to draw the line. The question is no longer "What do I owe this person?" but "What do I owe myself?"

♎ Libra & Libra Rising

Venus retrograde is a stripping away. A confrontation with the patterns that shape your relationships. The silent agreements, the quiet compromises, the ways you’ve bent to keep the peace without asking what it’s cost you. If something ended without closure, expect the door to open. The question isn’t just who is coming back? but why? Have you softened yourself to be more acceptable, more digestible, more easy to love? Some relationships will reveal their expiration dates. Others will show you where the real work begins. By April 3, Venus moves back into your 6th house of work, health, the daily rhythms that make up your life. This is where the consequences of your relationships become physical. The exhaustion that won’t fade. The stress that lingers in your body. The way you structure your day around someone else’s needs instead of your own. If something has been quietly draining you, this is when it makes itself known. By April 12, the choice will be clear: keep stretching yourself thin for the sake of balance, or step back into alignment with what actually sustains you.

♏ Scorpio & Scorpio Rising

Venus retrograde is an edit. A refinement. A pause to strip away what isn’t working. It starts in your 6th house of work, health, the rhythms of daily life. The systems you rely on. The habits that hold you together, or don’t. A slowdown forces you to notice what you’ve been missing. Maybe it’s your body. Maybe it’s your energy. Maybe it’s the way your work has become a cycle of output with no inspiration left inside it. If you’ve been running on fumes, this is when you crash. A past project, a past job resurfaces. Not everything needs to be reclaimed, but it does need to be thought through. Then, on April 3, Venus moves back into your 5th house of creativity, love, the pursuit of joy. If your inspiration has been blocked, this transit reveals why. If you’ve been treating creativity as something to monetize, something to optimize, something to control, this is where that breaks. You can’t force joy. You can’t schedule passion. By April 12, the answer will be clear. What sustains you, and what drains you? What feeds your spirit, and what just takes from it? Creativity and love cannot survive under obligation. If you’ve only been showing up because you said you would, it’s time to choose something else.

♐ Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising

Venus retrograde is a filter. It strips away the excess, leaving only what is essential. What brings you life. What drains it. What was never real to begin with. It begins in your 5th house of joy, creativity, love. The things that make you feel alive. The things you used to reach for instinctively, before responsibility, before expectation, before you started calling your joy a luxury. An old creative project, a past lover, a feeling you abandoned long ago, they return. But, Do you still want this? Did you just forget why you let it go? Then, on April 3, Venus moves back into your 4th house of home, family, the foundation beneath it all. The past stops being memory and becomes present. A family pattern you thought you’d outgrown reveals itself in a current relationship. A home situation shifts. Maybe you’ve been planning a move. Maybe you’ve already left. Either way, something isn’t settled. By April 12, the truth is in front of you. What do you need to feel at home in your life? In your body? This retrograde is just clearing the static so you can hear it.

♑ Capricorn & Capricorn Rising

Venus retrograde strips things down to their core. What’s real stays. What was built on illusion crumbles. It begins in your 4th house of home, family, roots. The foundation. The past. The stories you didn’t choose but inherited. A wound reopens. A pattern resurfaces. Maybe it’s something you thought you were done with. Maybe it’s something you tried to outrun. But here it is, waiting to be acknowledged. On April 3, Venus moves back into your 3rd house of words, communication, connection. The way you speak. The way you listen. A conversation you thought was over starts again. An old friend, a sibling, a piece of writing you never finished, all asking for attention. If you’ve been avoiding a truth, it won’t stay quiet. If there’s something unsaid, it will find a way out. By April 12, clarity arrives. Your words hold power. Be deliberate with them. Say what needs to be said. Nothing more. Nothing less.

♒ Aquarius & Aquarius Rising

Venus retrograde is a clearing. A reset. A space where noise falls away so you can hear what’s been waiting underneath. It starts in your 3rd house, the house of voice, thought, and connection. A conversation returns, an idea resurfaces, a project you abandoned calls your name. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to write, to speak, to create. Ask yourself, what have I been waiting for? The hesitation isn’t coming from time. It’s coming from you. Then, on April 3, Venus moves back into your 2nd house of worth and resources. Money asks to be reconsidered. Not just how you earn, but how you value yourself. The numbers in your bank account tell a story. What you’ve accepted, of what you’ve settled for, of where you’ve traded your time for too little. If there are debts, both literal and unseen, they surface now. The things you’ve given without return. The places you’ve invested without intention. Where have you been underselling yourself? Where have you accepted less than what you deserve? By April 12, clarity arrives. You will know what to ask for.

♓ Pisces & Pisces Rising

Venus retrograde moves through your 2nd house of material security and self-worth before backtracking into your 1st house of identity and personal power. It begins with money. How you spend it, how you save it, and what it represents. Financial matters from the past reappear, debts call for repayment, and investments demand reassessment. But beneath the surface, this retrograde is about far more than money, it’s about worth. If you’ve been tying your value to what you produce, what you own, or how others perceive you, Venus retrograde exposes the cracks in that foundation. Then, on April 3, Venus moves back into your 1st house of self and identity. This is where things get personal. You may feel lost in nostalgia, questioning who you are and what you truly desire. A past relationship might re-enter your life to remind you who you were. If you’ve been defining yourself by how others see you, this transit will strip that illusion away. By April 12, your sense of self will have shifted. The old version of you has served its purpose. The new one is waiting to take its place.