What this period actually is
Between March 2, 2025 and April 13, 2025 Venus moves back through 16.2 degrees of the zodiac, from 10°50' Aries to 24°37' Pisces, without changing its own direction at any point. Venus is an inner planet, so this happens as it swings between Earth and the Sun; the loop it appears to trace from 10°50' Aries back to 24°37' Pisces is Earth's own motion showing up in the line of sight.
The mechanism behind the Venus station of March 2, 2025 is the same one described in what retrograde motion is. Read astrologically, the convention is that Venus — affection, taste, money and what you judge something to be worth — turns inward between March 2, 2025 and April 13, 2025, which is a habit of reading rather than a claim about the sky.
The dates in full
Station retrograde: March 2, 2025 at 10°50' Aries, 00:36 UTC. Station direct: April 13, 2025 at 24°37' Pisces, 01:02 UTC. It begins in Aries and backs into Pisces, crossing the boundary between 10°50' Aries and 24°37' Pisces rather than working one stretch of a single sign.
Venus first reaches 24°37' Pisces — the degree it will retrograde back to — on January 28, 2025, and does not clear 10°50' Aries, the degree it stationed at, until May 16, 2025, so counting both shadows the passage runs 107 days rather than 42.
What the period is good for
For the 42 days between March 2, 2025 and April 13, 2025 the workable version of the advice is narrow: revisit what you value rather than acquire more of it, and treat a returning name as information rather than fate.
If one thing is worth timing around the stretch that ends April 13, 2025, it is cosmetic surgery, a new hairstyle you cannot undo, or a first date you have been putting off for a year — not because the sky forbids it, but because a marked period is a reasonable prompt to check work you would otherwise wave through. Treating the whole of March 2, 2025 to April 13, 2025 as a general curse is the version worth ignoring.
Which house it falls in for your sign
Counted from each sign as the first house, this Venus retrograde, stationing at 10°50' Aries falls here:
| Sign | House | What that house covers |
|---|---|---|
| Aries | 1st house | your own bearing, appearance and the first move |
| Taurus | 12th house | rest, solitude, what is behind you and what runs unattended |
| Gemini | 11th house | friends, groups, networks and what you are aiming at |
| Cancer | 10th house | career, public standing and what you are known for |
| Leo | 9th house | distance, study, belief, travel and the long view |
| Virgo | 8th house | shared money, debt, intimacy and what is not said out loud |
| Libra | 7th house | partners, opponents and anyone you deal with one to one |
| Scorpio | 6th house | work, routine, health and the small maintenance of a life |
| Sagittarius | 5th house | play, romance, children and anything you make for its own sake |
| Capricorn | 4th house | home, family, roots and private ground |
| Aquarius | 3rd house | conversation, short trips, siblings and daily information |
| Pisces | 2nd house | money, possessions and what you consider yours |
The cycle either side of this one
The next Venus station follows 538 days after April 13, 2025; nothing earlier is dated here.
- Next: October 3, 2026 to November 14, 2026
- All Venus retrograde periods: the full list
Questions people ask about this
When does Venus go retrograde in 2025?
On March 2, 2025 at 00:36 UTC, at 10°50' Aries.
When does it end?
The direct station falls on April 13, 2025 at 24°37' Pisces, 42 days after the turn.
What is the shadow period?
For this passage it runs January 28, 2025 to May 16, 2025: the stretch in which Venus crosses the same degrees it covers three times in all.
Does Venus retrograde break things?
No. Between March 2, 2025 and April 13, 2025 the planet only appears to reverse, and the tradition reads that as a stretch better suited to review than to launch.