Venus retrograde 2025

1 period, 42 days inside the year — 11.5% of 2025. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

42 days · retreats 16.21°

2 March → 13 April 2025 in Aries

Stations retrograde 2 Mar 2025, 00:02 UTC at 10.5° Aries

Stations direct 13 Apr 2025, 00:38 UTC at 24.29° Pisces

Shadow opens 28 Jan 2025 (32 days before)

Shadow closes 16 May 2025 (33 days after)

Full window including shadows 108 days

Read against Aries, and see that sign’s horoscope for the period.

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Venus retrogrades either side of 2025

2023 Ended 4 September 2023 after 43 days, moving back 16.39° through the zodiac.

2026 Begins 3 October 2026 and runs 42 days.

Gap across 2025

3.1 years between the two — long enough for a whole calendar year to fall inside it with nothing to report.

Both dates are computed from the planet’s apparent motion, not taken from a table. A retrograde begins the moment its daily movement against the stars turns negative, and that moment is findable to the hour.

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