Venus
What you find beautiful, and what you will do to keep it near you.
- Speed
- about four weeks in a sign
- Retrograde
- roughly every eighteen months, for about six weeks
- Keywords
- attraction · value · harmony
Venus covers taste as much as romance: what you are drawn to, what you think is worth having, and the terms on which you relate. Taurus gets the sensory half of that and Libra the relational half.
Its retrogrades are rare enough to be worth marking — about six weeks every eighteen months — and they are traditionally read as a period when old attachments and old valuations resurface. Venus is also the brightest thing in the sky after the Moon, which is why every culture that watched the sky named it and most of them named it after something they wanted.
Whether Venus is retrograde today, and when it next turns, is on the retrograde tracker. Where it stands right now is on the sky today.
Where it stood the day you were born — cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.