Venus Retrograde- March 2025
Venus retrograde in Aries isn’t just about revisiting old love stories—it’s a reckoning with the past, a cosmic deep dive into the patterns that have shaped the way we love, desire, and fight for connection.
This isn’t about celestial mischief or love gone wrong. This is reclamation.
Think of Orpheus walking through the underworld, not just to retrieve Eurydice, but to finally understand why he couldn’t help but look back—what part of himself was still trapped in the shadows. Or Inanna, shedding her royal garments at each gate of the underworld, choosing to stand bare before her shadow self, not for power, but for wholeness.
Venus now moves backward through Aries, the sign of the warrior, unearthing the original wounds that shaped the way we give and receive love. And so, the past resurfaces—but this time, it brings revelations:
The lover who left holds the contract you signed before memory.
The desire you suppressed reveals itself as an unfinished song of the soul.
The ache you thought you’d healed shows you the precise places where healing still waits.
The battle you keep fighting in love exposes the first wound that taught you love meant struggle.
Venus retrograde in Aries isn’t here to torment, but to illuminate. It’s a chance to examine the weapons we’ve carried into love’s battlefield—the sword forged from childhood wounds, the shield built from ancient betrayals.
This retrograde turns the fiery passion of Aries inward, lighting up the shadows behind our desires. It asks us:
What love keeps resurfacing in different disguises?
What fierce longing is covering up a gentler need?
What story refuses to die, no matter how many times you’ve tried to bury it?
This is an initiation, not a punishment. The goddess of love doesn’t move backward to undo, but to restore. To return to you the missing pieces of your heart—the ones left behind in past loves, in past lifetimes, in places where you silenced your own desires.
Venus retrograde in Aries isn’t about chasing love—it’s about understanding why you chase it, why you run from it, why you fight for it the way you do.
This is the battlefield where true courage is tested—the courage to face yourself, to see your patterns clearly, and to reclaim the love you’ve been searching for all along: your own.