Venus Retrograde in Libra & Scorpio with Horoscopes

Sep 23

Venus retrograde is a time for review, reflection, revision, and re-evaluation of Venusian themes: love, relationships, beauty, money, pleasure, creativity, values, and desire.

Venus Retrograde Dates

Pre-shadow: August 31 – October 3
Venus retrograde: October 3 – November 13
Moves from Scorpio back into Libra: October 25
Post-shadow: November 13 – December 15

Because Venus moves back through the degrees it has already traveled, events and themes that surfaced during the pre-shadow can return for review during the retrograde and may continue to unfold through the post-shadow.

Venus Retrograde Themes

We talk about:

Reassessing romantic and non-romantic relationships
Revisiting old relationships, friendships, business connections, and communities
Recognizing relationship patterns and attachment dynamics
Looking at reciprocity, compromise, boundaries, and emotional labor
Renegotiating roles and expectations within relationships
Reconsidering what we value and what we actually need
Reconnecting with creativity, pleasure, and things we used to enjoy
Reevaluating money, spending, work, and resources
Revisiting beauty, aesthetics, and our relationship with appearance
Collective conversations around womanhood, motherhood, gender roles, and beauty standards

Venus in Scorpio

Venus in Scorpio takes us beneath the surface.

This part of the retrograde can highlight:

Intimacy and vulnerability
Attachment and control
Jealousy and power dynamics
Desire and obsession
Deeper psychological patterns within relationships
What is happening underneath the surface that needs to be acknowledged or released

Venus in Libra

When Venus moves back into Libra, the focus shifts toward:

Partnership
Reciprocity
Fairness
Compromise
Boundaries
People-pleasing
Negotiating relationship roles
Balancing connection with individuality

With Saturn in Aries, we explore the tension between relationship and independence: How do we create relationships that allow for both connection and autonomy?

Human Design: Venus Retrograde Through the Spleenic Gates

Venus retrogrades through four Spleenic gates, bringing themes of intuition and awareness to the forefront.

The fears associated with these gates include:

Gate 44 — Fear of the past repeating: What patterns are resurfacing so we can recognize them rather than repeat them?
Gate 28 — Fear of death / running out of time: What is actually worth the risk?
Gate 50 — Fear of responsibility: What are we responsible for, and what are we carrying that isn't ours?
Gate 32 — Fear of failure: What is worth continuing, and what are we ready to release?

We talk about how these gates can bring greater awareness to our fears, intuition, and inner knowing and why Strategy and Authority are such an important anchor during this time.