Venus retrograde initiates a descent into your foundation, your younger years, and your lineage, Taurus. Taurus (Photo: ProVectors | Getty) Taurus Rising

As you emerge from this retrograde, you will find that your joy, your message, your creativity, and you will be in a new space. Whether this asks you to sit with hurtful narratives around sharing your light, revisit old ideas, or rekindle your passions so you can pour yourself into your art. This Venus retrograde is an opportunity for you to reconsider, realign, and revive your creative pursuits and expression of self. As Venus journeys through the underworld, she invites you to explore, along with her, your underworld and the depths within you that influence your creative expression. It comes from your unique light from within. It overflows from your relationship with yourself, both light and dark. Creation pours forth from your lived experiences, your perspectives of the world, your identity, and your pleasures. Aries (Photo: ProVectors | Getty) Aries RisingĬreation doesn’t arise only from the mind, Aries. For a more personalized exploration of the upcoming six weeks, learn which house in your birth chart is occupied by Leo, as that is the sign in which Venus is retrograding. You can better understand how Venus retrograde may influence your life depending on the zodiac placement of your ascendant, also known as your rising sign, rather than your Sun sign. What experiences from the past are influencing your present? What patterns and narratives around love, intimacy, worthiness, or beauty are you ready to witness, heal, and rewrite? What Venus Retrograde 2023 Means for You and Your Sign This retrograde may feel like a mirror, revealing insights into past experiences seeping into the present by recreating certain dynamics, and how our present reflects our past by continuing stories that began years ago. This time also invites a reflection of our relationship with money and earnings, the worth we place on our skills and creativity, how we appreciate art and beauty, and whether we feel secure in ourselves to express who we are. Venus draws us into pleasure, art, and romance, and reveals to us the value we place on ourselves, others, concepts, places, and money.ĭuring Venus retrograde in Leo, these are the themes that will be highlighted, reviewed, witnessed, reframed, visited, and perhaps even healed. If Venus lived as an archetype within us, it would be the parts of ourselves represented by and concerned with beauty, desire, love, intimacy, partnership, and connection. Venus retrogrades every 18 months, spending approximately 40 days in her descent.

Venus begins her retrograde in the sign of Leo on July 22, 2023, and stations direct on September 3, 2023. We are being asked to hold space for a judgement-free exploration of whether our needs are being met within relationships with others and ourselves. During these six weeks of Venus retrograde, we are invited to journey into the depths of our heart to witness all the spaces within, those that have felt loved and unloved, nurtured and neglected. The part of us to be explored was determined by the planet in retrograde. As we emerged from this descent, these parts of ourselves also surfaced, allowing us to claim a more authentic expression of ourselves. It was understood to be a journey downward and backward into our shadow, a place within us waiting to be acknowledged, witnessed, claimed, and reintegrated into our consciousness. In ancient astrology, it was believed that when a planet shifted into retrograde, it descended into the underworld, taking a part of each of us with it. Of all the planets, Venus spends the smallest proportion of time in retrograde, although generally speaking, it is felt the most. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!

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