3 Secrets of the Enigmatic Love Nature of the Venus Retrograde Natal Placement
Updated March 12th 2025
At what age were you able to express a healthy outward affection for others with a certain amount of confidence?
If you have always found that effortless, natural, and without the accompaniment of an internal/external conflict, don't take it for granted.
Today I want to write about a different type of expression of the planet Venus and the karmic journey associated with a Venus Retrograde natal placement.
This blog will dive into the possible experiences and expressions of the astrological phenomena of Venus appearing to be in backward motion, as well as explore some unique facts about this placement that make this placement a bittersweet journey.
What does having a Venus in Retrograde Motion mean in your birth chart?
Venus, the planet of the unification of values, beauty, love, and relationship, rarely goes retrograde; therefore, 7-8% of this population is born with this placement. In this placement, the Venusian qualities that people with Venus direct resolve outwardly are pulled inward for the Venus retrograde natal person to resolve inwardly. It is the rarest retrograde of the personal planets, occurring approximately every 19 months.
On what dates does Venus in Retrograde occur in 2025?
March 1st, 2025 from Aries♈️ to April 12th ending in the sign of Picses♓️
When Venus's retrograde motion lives inside a soul, the reprocessing and rethinking of the nature of their love and the love they share with others are up for reexamination consistently throughout the native's life.
When Venus' direct motion lives inside of a soul, the reexamination element of the retrograde is more pronounced during this transit.
A bird’s eye view of Venus’s orbit, revealing a five petal flowerWhat are some of the inhibitions that a Venus Retrograde Natal native may experience?
As a Venus Retrograde native, I have always felt my nature of relating profoundly differed from others because it never came with the lightness of possibility and adventure.
Imagine what it must feel like to be born without a blank slate of possibility for relationships, but rather an unexplained fear or guilt that holds one back from relating to others to their fullest capacity.
It's not like I didn't have the same thoughts, urges, and desires to connect with others; I felt I had twice the amount, but the examination of the feelings used to feel more comfortable then getting out there and expressing. myself.
Common experiences of the Venus Retrograde Natal include:
Vacillating between overindulgence and denial of the Venusian aspects of life.
Never putting themselves out there enough to experience the relational dynamics that have been analyzed thousands of times within their minds.
A consistent worry about if you are expressing yourself “correctly”
Taking socializing more seriously than Venus directs.
Internalizing past hurts to the point of inhibiting present-day freedom.
Rejecting others before they have a chance to leave them.
Intellectualizing feelings to the extent of feeling numb and deterred from taking action.
Attempting to win over their object of affection with gifts or illusions of grandeur.
Inability to recognize unhealthy relationship dynamics due to wearing rose-colored glasses.
Finding themselves in infatuated, lopsided, and unrequited relational dynamics
Three Secrets of the Enigmatic Love Nature of the Venus Retrograde Natal Placement
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"Each loop within the rose below is formed by Venus's retrograde cycle, which moves between 5 separate locations every two years and repeats in the same location every eight years. Venus truly boggles the mind”(Woodard).
While the Venus Directs complete their Venus Return each year, people with Venus Retrograde natal experience a Venus Return every eight years.
Think of your Venus return as a reset or karmic clearing of the lessons learned throughout your last Venus cycle.
For Venus Retrograde natives, more time is dedicated to figuring out our processes within our unique relational journey during each eight-year cycle.
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In this pattern of behavior, present interactions feel steeped in the weight of the patterns of relating carried on to the past.
This can become highly maladaptive when someone holds on to past patterns of relating to define themselves, almost setting up a self-fulfilling prophecy from the past in each present situation.
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"We have a bigger capacity to exercise that planet's power “(Sum).
Artistic abilities have the potential to take on an innovative level of understanding to the people around you because the constant process of reanalysis leads to the birth of novel and unique expressions.
The love you offer is rare, and how you see the beauty in yourself in others is unique.
A Love Letter to My Venus Retrograde Natal Young Natives
There will be a time in your life when your retrograde Venus goes direct by progression!
All those eight-year chapters of studying relational dynamics, relative to your karmic journey, will have cleared a path of higher understanding for you and a conscious expression that you are proud of and delighted in because you had to work extremely hard to get there.
Be free and confident enough to carve your understanding of love, beauty, desire, and relationships, and bring your knowledge forth when you are ready.
Never doubt your ability to connect with others in the years when your heart may feel like it hasn't found an expression that feels right for you.
Signed With the most Internal Expression of Love,
-dd
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Works Cited Sum, Elizabeth. “Venus Retrograde in Your Natal Chart.” YouTube, YouTube, 29 Oct. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PpKxh5emlA. Woodard, Chad. “Venus Retrograde 2012.” Kosmic Mind, Kosmic Mind, 6 Sept. 2013, https://www.kosmicmind.com/kosmicmind/2012/04/venus-retrograde-2012.html.