Venus Retrograde in Aries
Venus will station retrograde at 10º of Aries on March 1st, 2025, at 8:00 pm EST. Before we light a match and burn the whole house down, let’s unpack the purpose of Venus Retrogrades.
Venus symbolizes everything we want in life, like love, money, peace, passion, health, aspirations, and so much more. She tells us what we love in people, places, things, food, style, aesthetics, ourselves, and everything in between.
So when Venus stations retrograde, she’s asking us to slow down and pause for a second (usually around 40 days) and carefully reflect on everything we’ve been pursuing related to our wants.
Her intentions aren’t to stress us out, although they may, but to offer us moments of realignment, to ensure that everything we’ve been pursuing is meant for us, means us well, and adds to our lives. I like to say that Venus is testing the strength of our foundational wants to ensure they’re strong enough to withstand time, either blessing us with endurance and improvements or taking away and destroying anything that is not meant for our future selves.
This retrograde will not be for the faint of heart, as not only is Venus having to walk backward on all of the beautiful progress she usually creates, but she’s having to do it in her sign of detriment.
In Aries, Venus learns she does not attract love like Libra, so she becomes a fighter and begins chasing all of her wants. Meaning, while Retrograde, she’s going to amplify this and have us put in additional effort to fight for what we want.
Venus Retrograde in Aries will offer us moments to regain our confidence in our independence by bringing us opportunities to improve the paths we’re on or carve a new way forward.
Whether that’s relationships, marriages, our jobs or careers, studies, or anything else we’re actively pursuing. This is not to encourage us all to ditch the relationships or jobs we’re in; it’s to test the foundation of what we have and what we’re building.
Healthy relationships will grow stronger during this time; unhealthy relationships, or those not meant to be our forever love, will burn away during this time. The same goes for career paths and areas in which we spend our time, energy, and resources; what’s meant for us will strengthen, what’s not will simply burn away.
Aries is the most independent sign of the Zodiac, signifying that if things aren't working out, she won’t waste any time letting things go and moving on.
During this transit, themes of self-love, romance, personal identity, confidence in pursuing success, and autonomy will all rise to the surface. We may find ourselves revisiting past relationships, confronting unresolved feelings, questioning the dynamics of current connections (particularly around issues of independence vs partnership) and asking ourselves whether our desires truly align with our authentic selves.
Impulsive decisions made in the past regarding love or finances might resurface, offering an opportunity for course correction or validation of our earlier convictions.
We can think back to the last Venus Retrograde, which was in Leo, between July - September of 2023, for insights into the energy of this one. Thankfully, Aries doesn’t like drama as much as Leo, so this retrograde should feel intensely faster.
This will also be a two-part retrograde as Venus will retrograde in Aries from March 1st - March 27th and in Pisces from March 27th - April 12th.
Venus Retrograde in Aries will challenge us to reconsider impulsive choices, reflect on how we assert ourselves, reevaluate our relationships, and redefine what passion and confidence mean to us. Venus Retrograde in Pisces will instead ask us to reflect on illusions/fantasies and confront where we may have been overly idealistic in love, helping us discern between true devotion and unhealthy escapism.
Venus Retrograde in Aries can also highlight how we express passion and desire, encouraging us to redefine what truly makes us feel confident, valued, and empowered, not just in relationships but in how we live authentically and pursue what lights us up.
Overall, Venus Retrograde is a time of reflection, reassessment, and reevaluation.
All of the notes, themes, energy, and situations we encountered throughout the month of February will now be what we’ll revisit throughout March.
Allow the beauty of Venus’ story through Aries to tell the story of positive change in the Aries-ruled House of our birth chart, because come April and May, we’ll have gained profound clarity, confidence, courage, and empowerment.
Horoscopes
Aries: realignment + new chapter + goals/progress + style
Taurus: endings + healing + intuition + spirituality + relief
Gemini: friends + family + networking + community
Cancer: ambitions + career + opportunities + responsibility
Leo: new perspectives + growth + learning + traveling
Virgo: changes + trust + commitments + investments
Libra: romantic relationships + commitments + agreements
Scorpio: mental/physical health + habits + routine + work
Sagittarius: work-life balance + creativity + love + peace
Capricorn: comfort + home + family + future + foundations
Aquarius: authenticity + communication + traveling + info
Pisces: income + finances + priorities + values + wellness