Venus Retrograde 2025: A Sacred Initiation of Love, Rebirth, and Self-Worth
Venus, the brightest “star”, in our night sky, has been revered across cultures as a celestial guide for love, beauty, and transformation. To the ancient priestesses of the Rose Lineage, Venus was more than a planet—it was a living map of initiation, mirroring the soul’s journey of descent, transformation, and rebirth.
According to true sidereal astrology, Venus began her retrograde journey in Pisces this weekend, from March 1st to April 12th. This signals a profound reworking of our values—challenging us to reflect on who and what we truly cherish in life. Pisces energy, when embraced with healthy boundaries, can be a source of deep spiritual connection, creativity, and unconditional love. However, without discernment, it can lead to confusion or illusion. This retrograde asks us to align with the right people, relationships, and experiences that genuinely reflect our values.
Astrologically, this is a powerful period of transformation—not only is Venus retrograde, but we are also entering eclipse season, a time of karmic shifts and accelerated change. To add to the intensity, Mercury will also go retrograde, amplifying the need for patience, introspection, and trust in divine timing. The cosmic landscape is shifting—this is a moment to slow down, reevaluate, and surrender to the deeper wisdom at play.
Honoring the Power of 40 Days
The number 40 carries profound spiritual significance across ancient traditions, deeply encoded in the wisdom of the Rose Lineage. It represents purification, release, initiation, mourning, and renewal—a sacred cycle of transformation that realigns you with your highest truth.
Venus embarks on a rare 43-day retrograde, a period longer than its usual 40-day cycle. The number 40 itself holds deep initiatory significance—Isis mourned Osiris for 40 days, ancient priestesses fasted and purified for 40 days before receiving divine wisdom, and new mothers were given 40 days of sacred rest after birth. This extended retrograde signals a profound completion and rebirth, an invitation to reexamine love, relationships, self-worth, pleasure financial patterns, values, and creative expression. It’s an initiation into deeper self-love, financial sovereignty, and embodied pleasure.
As Venus moves through this retrograde, take time to consciously engage with these energies over the next 43 days. Invite the Venusian Mysteries into your awareness, reflect on your deepest values, and create space for renewal. This is a powerful window to realign with love, deepen your self-worth, and plant the seeds for the life you truly desire.
The Rose Lineage & Venus as the Initiatrix
Priestesses on the Rose Path have long worked with Venus as a celestial guide. This lineage, which traces back to the ancient Mystery Schools follows the Venusian cycle as a spiritual initiation into divine love and sovereignty. Honouring her celestial rhythms as a guide for spiritual growth, love, and material abundance.
Venus' movement in the sky—shifting from the Evening Star to the Morning Star—mirrors the mythic descent of Inanna, the Queen of Heaven, whose myth tells of her descent into the underworld, a journey of shedding illusions, confronting the shadow, and emerging reborn in radiant wholeness.
The path Venus traces in the heavens over eight years forms a perfect five-petaled rose or pentagram, symbolizing sacred geometry, cosmic beauty, and divine order.. In Sumerian tradition, this became the eight-petaled Venus Star-Flower, a symbol of resurrection found in the earliest spiritual artifacts. This Venus Retrograde is a living activation of that ancient wisdom, calling us to release outdated versions of ourselves and rise anew.
A Sacred Rite of Passage
This celestial alignment enhances intuition, clairvoyance, & psychic powers deepening your connection to the unseen. Pay attention to your dreams—this is a time of vivid messages & divine guidance.
Drinking blue lotus or mugwort tea can enhance dream recall and deepen your connection to the subconscious.
Trust the wisdom that arises within you. Align your intentions with higher guidance, allowing yourself to move in harmony with the cosmic cycles unfolding around you.
This is more than just a planetary shift—it is a profound initiation, a sacred passage woven through celestial rhythms and deeply felt within the body’s wisdom.
Themes & Invitations of Venus Retrograde 2025
This retrograde is a sacred recalibration. It asks:
Where has love been conditional in your life?
What outdated beliefs about relationships, pleasure, and worth are ready to be released?
Are you valuing yourself fully, or settling for less than you deserve?
How can you redefine beauty, love, and success on your own terms?
During retrograde, she asks us to pause, reflect, and realign with what truly nourishes us.
This is a time to:
Reevaluate your finances – Are your spending habits aligned with your values? Do you feel worthy of abundance?
Redefine your relationships & desires – What expectations need to shift? Are you settling for less than you deserve?
Reflect on self-worth – Where have you placed your value outside of yourself?
Experiment with pleasure & sensuality – Reconnect with your body, creativity, and joy.
Engage in shadow work – What patterns around love and money need healing?
Create an altar for Venus – Invoke her energy to guide your transformation.
Work with the heart healing medicine of Rose to soften and expand into this healing process:
Drink rose tea ceremonially to nurture your heart.
Take rose tincture to heal the heart
Anoint yourself with rose essential oil to open to self-love.
Meditate with rose quartz to bring comfort and clarity.
Hawthorn is a powerful herb for heart healing, drink it as a tea or take as a tincture.
This is a time to return to your own inner radiance and deepen your sense of love and worthiness.
The sacred feminine initiations
Sacred Feminine Embodiment
This retrograde is an initiation into deeper embodiment, sensuality, and self-trust. You are being asked to slow down, listen to your body, and honor the natural cycles of pleasure and rest.
Dark Feminine Integration
Venus is not just soft and loving—she is also fierce and transformative. This is a time to own your power by facing your shadow, reclaiming the parts of yourself that have been hidden or shamed. Where have you been giving your power away? Where have you ignored your own needs?
Heart Awakenings & Self-Love
Venus Retrograde is a time of deep heart activation, illuminating the places within us that long for healing, expression, and expansion. Your relationship with yourself sets the foundation for all others—this is a time to return to your own inner radiance, cultivating a sense of love and worthiness that comes from within.
Expanding Your Heart Field & Embracing Sensuality
Venus invites us to soften, receive, and indulge in the beauty of life—but only in ways that are truly nourishing. This retrograde is an opportunity to reconnect with pleasure, sensuality, and the full-body experience of love, whether that means deepening intimacy, reigniting creative expression, or simply allowing yourself to slow down and savor life’s sweetness.
Rewriting Your Relationship With Love, Pleasure & Desire
Venus Retrograde is not about chasing love—it’s about understanding what love means to you. It’s a time to redefine your relationship expectations, reflect on past patterns, and clear space for more aligned connections. What kind of love do you truly desire? What kind of love do you give yourself?
How to Work With This Venus Retrograde
1. REFLECT – Journal, meditate, and revisit old dreams. What desires have been left unspoken?
2. TEND TO SELF-LOVE – Where have you sought validation externally? What does radical self-worth look like for you now?
3. REVISE & RECLAIM – Redefine your relationships, creative projects, and finances. What aligns with your true essence?
4. EMBRACE THE UNDERWORLD JOURNEY – Shadows will surface for healing. Witness them with compassion.
5. RECORD YOUR DREAMS - This will be time for vivid dreams and heightened intuition.
What Not to Do During Venus Retrograde
Avoid impulsive decisions in love, beauty, and finances. Retrogrades bring clarity through reflection, not reaction.
Don't rush commitments—allow relationships and projects to unfold naturally.
Avoid major financial decisions – Hold off on big purchases or investments. Clarity will come after Venus moves direct.
Don’t radically change your appearance – Retrograde energy invites inner transformation before outward shifts.
Here are 10 journal prompts to help you navigate Venus Retrograde 2025 with depth and clarity:
What do I truly value in love, relationships, and life? Have these values shifted over time?
Where am I settling for less than I deserve in love, finances, or self-worth? What small shifts can I make to honor my worth?
What past relationship patterns or wounds are resurfacing for healing? How can I approach them with self-compassion?
What does pleasure mean to me? How can I cultivate more authentic pleasure in my daily life?
How do I experience beauty? Am I defining beauty on my own terms, or am I influenced by external standards?
What limiting beliefs do I hold around money, abundance, and financial security? How can I shift toward greater financial sovereignty?
How do I express my sensuality and feminine energy? Am I fully embracing this aspect of myself?
What outdated beliefs about love and relationships am I ready to let go of? What kind of love do I truly desire?
What parts of my ‘dark feminine’ energy (power, mystery, shadows, deep emotions) have I been avoiding? How can I integrate them in a healthy way?
If I loved myself completely and unconditionally, what would change in my life? What is one way I can embody that self-love today?
These prompts will help you explore the deeper themes of self-love, transformation, and alignment that Venus Retrograde is bringing to the surface. Take your time, be honest with yourself, and allow Venus to guide your reflections
A Year of Completion & New Beginnings
2025 is a Universal Year 9, a year of endings, karmic closure, and completion. This Venus Retrograde will highlight what must be released to enter the next cycle fully aligned. Some relationships will dissolve, not because Venus is “bad” for love, but because truth is finally being seen. Others will deepen, solidifying through honest reflection.
Venus, the Queen of Heaven and Earth, invites us to rise in devotion to the sacred within and your inner worth. This retrograde is not just about love—it is about remembering who you truly are, it is a portal to reclaiming your power, self worth, beauty, feminine embodiment, abundance, pleasure and soul-aligned desires.
Blessings on this Venusian journey. May you emerge reborn, embodied, radiant, and sovereign.
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