Venus Retrograde returns to Pisces, a revisit of themes and experiences from January. We move from element fire to water. Relationships need a second look as well. It’s a reevaluation of compassion and commitment, responsibility and understanding.
Venus doesn’t turn retrograde very often — every 18 months — but when it does it’s a 40 day period when we need to review how we connect and relate to others. While Venus is often thought of as the planet of love, one of its primary duties in astrology is to help us to socialize and form connections. Without Venus, we would only know Mars — our wants, our needs, our desires — and heavy handedly so. Venus is compromise, negotiation, and recognition.
There is always an opportunity to rework something when a planet is retrograde, to take something from the past and to bring it into the present. Perhaps we need to compromise more, or make sure our needs are being considered. Everything in balance, as Venus says.
With Venus back in Pisces, it meets up with Neptune in Pisces, its last conjunction to Neptune in Pisces in our lifetime. (We’d have to live another 160 years to see Venus and Neptune meet up again in Pisces.) Neptune helps Venus search for a higher octave of love and compassion, desire and need.
Don’t forget, Neptune is poised to leave Pisces this week for the first time in 13 years, arriving in Aries on March 30. Neptune is an evolutionary planet and it will bring its evolutionary energies to Aries, the sign of new beginnings, action, leadership, and individuality.
If you are in AUSTRALIA or NZ, this forecast applies approximately for March 28, 2025.
I am so grateful for your insight and your well articulated explanations of the planets and their relationship with us.
You are so good at what you do and so grounding especially these days.
Thank you for showing up and doing such helpful work.
Many Blessings to you.