Intense Venus Retrograde in Scorpio Is Here — Horoscopes for All 12 Signs

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Today we're going to take a look at Venus's upcoming retrograde in Scorpio. I'm going to do your horoscopes today. We're going to do rising sign horoscopes, one sign at a time, Aries through Pisces. You can listen to this for your Sun or your rising sign. But today we're going to focus in on the whole sign house that Venus is traveling through in your birth chart, or if you listen to your sun sign, it'll be your solar chart.

Hopefully give you some sense of what particular topics are likely to be activated by this 40-day period. At least the first significant part of it in Scorpio. I'm going to outline that period of the retrograde first, and then we'll move through all of the signs. I did a talk yesterday on some of the likely themes, archetypal themes of Venus and Scorpio. So that video is meant to be paired with this one.

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All right, so we have Venus turning retrograde in the sign of Scorpio this weekend. The station is Friday, October 2, and then october 3, the retrograde begins. We're going to stretch this out to about november 13 and 14th before Venus turns direct again, and by that time it'll be in Libra, which means that the station to retrograde in Scorpio, one of the most intense parts, as well as the Cazimi, all will happen in Scorpio.

We're going to see Venus in Scorpio from right now all the way through right here, about october 24. So you've got a nice long period of time to be working with this retrograde in Scorpio. It's like a soul curriculum that we're all going to be experiencing here coming up soon. Now, what I want to do today is simply take this through all 12 whole sign houses and give you some idea as to what might occur in your birth chart.

Now, the best way to listen to this is going to be for your rising sign if you want the accuracy of the transit location in your birth chart. That's by whole sign houses, of course. Now. Which is what I practice as a Hellenistic astrologer. However, if you listen to your sun sign, that's fine. Just listen to the sign that I read when I say the rising sign. Just take that as your sun sign.

So I'll say this could be for Aries Sun or rising, for example, to start. I'm going to look. I've got four delineations that I've crafted for each sign that are specific to the meanings of Venus retrograde, Venus in Scorpio, and the house position. So let's go through them and just get right into it. So Venus, if you're an Aries Sun arising, Venus is going to station and turn retrograde this weekend in Scorpio in your eighth house.

Now, when we think about Venus turning retrograde in Scorpio in this house. The first thing that came to my mind was renegotiating various kinds of entanglements or contracts. That could be joint finances. It could be about debts or taxes, different kinds of contracts or inheritances, financial arrangements. Maybe the financial arrangements of your spouse or partner, these things may require review, they may require disentanglement, or they may require some kind of new or different arrangement of an existing contract.

But I wouldn't be surprised to see that. So that's my number one for score or for Aries to watch out for with this in your eight. The second is broader but related, which is what do I owe, and what am I owed? Any questions of reciprocity can surface right now, where emotional and different kinds of material or financial exchanges have become problematic. So, anything that has to do more subtly or intangibly or psychologically or emotionally with the give and take, what is equal, what is unequal, what is fair, what is unfair, as to who is invested in what, who is responsible for what.

So that's number two. Number three on my list would be intimacy and vulnerability. Broadly speaking, any kinds of fears or anxieties related to trust and intimacy, dependency in general as a theme. Sometimes that's going to mean betrayal or jealousy or infidelity, and explorations of what it means to trust and be reliant or dependent upon somebody else. That's number three on my list, and the fourth one is about hidden costs or hidden benefits.

So something that initially appears really attractive during this retrograde could suddenly reveal that there's like a whole bunch of strings attached. That's a very Venus retrograde in Scorpio in the eighth house kind of thing to come up, and it and it can. Or it could be that there's there's some kind of relationship that has a value present in it that you didn't previously see, but now you do, and hey, that could be really nice. So those are my four things to watch for if you're an Aries Sun arising.

Let's go forward now and put Taurus on the ascendant, Venus is going to retrograde if you're Taurus Sun or rising in your seventh house. So the first thing is, of course, relationships. Any kind of existing partnerships may have to revisit some unresolved questions around commitment or intimacy or your sexuality or trust or the values of your relationship, and they may be under review, or they may be under a microscope somehow.

And it could be that this is a time to reveal some of those things and to resolve them where they can be resolved. And there will be some. Some people probably will go through, you know, unresolvable. What do I want to call them? Conflicts, or you might reach an impasse, and you have to leave a relationship. That's like textbook Venus retrograde in the seventh house kind of stuff.

Now, people from the past can sometimes make a return. That could be old partners, or old relationship patterns, or familiar interpersonal dynamics that may resurface for one reason or another, not necessarily to get back together, though sometimes that happens, but maybe to be understood or held in your consciousness differently. I think there's a lot of really amazing healing potential in a transit like that.

Then there's questions about desire versus compatibility. So, yeah, the the flame can burn hot and fast and bright with Venus in Scorpio, and that strong, strong chemistry has to be looked at in like compare and contrast to actual psychological, spiritual compatibility. So the the distinction between desire and infatuation and longing and lust, even. And what makes a relationship actually viable, healthy, sustainable? So questions like that, the distinction between those two things is important.

They don't have to be separate. In other words, it could be that there's a an amazing opportunity to deepen both psychologically, emotionally, and sexually with someone, for example, but often this will this kind of transit because of Venus's disposition in Scorpio being in a Mars ruled sign for Venus can be a little testy and spicy. So, questions about desire and healthy desire versus unhealthy desire around love, sex, intimacy, and relationships.

Finally, every relationship acts as a mirror in the seventh house, which means that other people naturally reveal to us something about our own desires, our own fears, our own boundaries, and our our changing values. Okay, so that those those kinds of shifts are a natural part of every relationship and shouldn't be feared because we're meant to help each other evolve. However, sometimes we what we what is revealed in the mirror of a partner or partnerships is pretty intense.

So these are things to think about if you're a Taurus. Let's move on to Gemini. So Gemini rising, we have Venus in Scorpio in the sixth house. So when Venus is in Scorpio in the sixth house. You're going to be looking at things like work and sacrifice, and sort of reassessing them potentially. The natural questions would be: Are you giving too much to your work? Are you in the right kind of service role?

Do you feel good about the things you serve or work for or toward. Are you? Is there a way that you're you're naturally finding concern for people who don't have enough support in life and feeling called to give or help in some way? Now, there's also questions about pleasure in the sixth versus discipline, especially under a Venus retrograde. If you work too hard, maybe this retrograde is helping you.

I don't know, almost like mix in a little bit more relaxation or enjoyment. But any kind of habits involving comfort or food or beauty or sexuality or indulgence, they may need to be adjusted somewhat because maybe they're having an adverse impact on your health or your mind or something you're trying to be productive or proactive with. So, so it's it's the kind of transit that comes up sometimes when people realize that they need they need help because there's some some pattern or habit that's addictive or a little bit out of control.

Now the other thing that could come up would be workplace relationships, complicated attractions, or like workplace rivalries or jealousies or gossip or resentments, questions about fairness or cooperation with you and maybe people you work for or people that work under you. Those so workplace dynamics can get a little bit intense and may require that you spend some time healing those things, or maybe leaving certain relationships that aren't healthy, or making fundamental changes.

And then, last on my list is making hard things more meaningful, more beautiful, or more enjoyable, because the sixth is filled with a lot of unpleasant things. Venus loves to be pleasant, unpleasant and obligatory things. So, whether it's a health challenge or just a demanding like stretch of time at work, what is valuable? What is worth the effort? And how can you make this beautiful or enjoyable; those are questions that frequently come up with Venus in the sixth.

All right, so those those are my thoughts for you Gemini's out there. Let's go forward to Cancers. So Venus retrograde in the fifth. Venus retrograde in the fifth is all about joy and pleasure. So, what actually brings you a deep level of creative joy or satisfaction? And sometimes, with a retrograde, it's like things that you've gotten away from, but you want to come back to like an old hobby or an artistic practice or something.

And sometimes it's old romances or or creative ambitions from the past will come back, but also they'll be redefined in the new era of your life. Like what is now for you creatively rewarding? Now there could be almost like very complicated romantic. This is my second one: romantic complications, because the fifth house. Filled with a kind of Venusian romance, and so attraction can become a little deeper and more intense and erotic, or psychologically complex.

And there may be something around pleasure, intimacy, sex, love, romance, dating that just is a ground for personal growth and change, so just romantic depth and intensity that could be a focus right now, or or sexual liberation. You know, just what go back to what actually brings me joy. Like what what makes me feel fulfilled. How can I loosen up change open sexually? Now, the third one on my list is children and pregnancy, a fifth house topic.

There may be some kind of circumstances changing around things like children, or or parenting, or your kids, or questions about fertility, or things that your kids are going through that just need attention. And then there's creative rebirth, which is my last one, and let's just say that if there are like neglected parts of yourself, creative parts of yourself, and elements of yourself that need that that deep feeling of joy and creative fulfillment, but you haven't, they've been neglected.

This is a time where they can be reawakened, but it may be a little bit painful to do what you have to do to tap back into those parts if they've been neglected or repressed. So those are my thoughts for Cancers right now. All right, let's move ahead to Leo's. All right, so if you're a Leo rising, Venus is retrograding in your fourth house. So here's the four things that I've got for you.

First would be family relationships or old family karma being revisited or coming back up somehow for review. That would be old emotional dynamics from your family or your upbringing, maybe resentments or different kinds of of loyalties that exist. You know that that almost like different schisms or like are you loyal to this or to that? And questions about fairness, or yeah, like old traumas, old wounds. What was fair? What was unfair about the past?

So just old family karma in general. Now the second one on my list would be any kinds of issues surrounding home or property, wouldn't be surprised to see literal issues with plumbing or something to do with water in the home. That's pretty common when there's retrogrades and water signs in the fourth house. Sagittarius is similar in that way when Pisces is in the fourth. Anyway, so it could be moving. You could be renovating, purchasing, selling, maybe decorating.

Or almost like redesigning or rearranging. It could be a time where you're decluttering. Could be a time where you're buying land or looking at some kind of financial investment or some kind of creative vision around the home or property. The third one on my list would be ancestral values, which is I was talking about family karma. This one actually made me think about looking clearly at the difference between your own value and the ones you were raised with.

And that could be about love or sex or money or rey religion or beauty, or gender, or or security, or what what makes a good life, or something like that. But it's it's a good time to say, well, what are my values versus those that are in like maybe they're my spouses or his families, or maybe maybe they're the ones that my parents had. What do I think?

The final on my list is questions about private versus public happiness. So this is a transit that can really pull Leo's inward and ask questions about what is yours that is private and unseen by the world that isn't a show or that isn't a performance, but it supports who you are and it supports who you're becoming? So this kind of privacy or inwardness for Leos comes to my mind. All right, let's move forward to Virgos.

So for Virgos, we're in the third house now. First one on my list is just changing your mind, as this is a house that is about the mind and about our subjective ego center and our our sense of you know what makes us an interesting subjectively oriented center of consciousness. Well, Venus retrogrades or Mercury retrogrades in this house can mean that something that you previously liked, valued, desired, were attracted to, or thought about can change somehow.

You can just change your mind, and that could also mean that you change your mind about something you do, think, a way that you act or behave, or even a skill or craft that you practice. You might find a slightly different way of doing it, a different way of speaking or thinking. So that's the first one on my list. The next one would be about sibling and peer dynamics, both.

Which belong to the third house. So any any time that Venus is retrograde like this in Aries, say, or you know in in Scorpio, there's kind of a Marsy dynamic. You think about rivalries, comparisons, jealousies, resentments to people that are sort of like peers or almost like siblings, and those dynamics may provide you with a very interesting sort of psychological mirror for your own unconscious right now, and also they may provide you with a lot of clarity about who the healthy, who are the most healthy people to relate to as your peers.

And what is the karma you're meant to learn from any siblings if you have them. That could come up as well. Now, the third one on my list is seductive ideas that we can get infatuated with mentally and emotionally. So it's like a transit that can just make you aware of how things like infatuation, lust, jealousy, desire can inform your thinking and sort of parade around like like rational, you know.

But the difference between emotional thinking and and sort of rational thinking right now, the two can come together, but it may take a little bit of work. Finally, I think anything that has to do with revising or reorienting something about the way you speak, think, or express yourself in communication. That could be your feelings. It could be words or writing. It could be podcasting.

It could just be the way that you speak and communicate with other people. But there's something here that suggests to me that you might be rethinking something about what what your what your personality is like and how to express it or convey it to others. Okay, now let's go forward to Libras. So for Libra rising, we have Venus retrograding in your second house. Now that's a place of money and livelihood.

So the first one on my list for you is any kind of revision, change, shift with respect to things like income or your spending patterns, pricing if you have a business, possessions or assets, and maybe shifting something in relation to them. But again, decluttering comes to mind. Any kind of investments or questions about sustainability or livelihood may require some kind of effort or rework or healing or change.

The second thing on my list is just questions about value, like what something that you thought was really appealing or attractive could suddenly lose value or appeal, and then something maybe undervalued becomes more important, or just another way of putting it is that what you're attracted to and what you value could go through a real shift during this retrograde period. The third one on my list is about material security.

So noticing where you're feeling vulnerable or weak, maybe both emotionally and materially. Like, ooh, I don't feel so supported here, or I don't feel safe or secure or stable mentally, emotionally, but also really materially. But the two could be very closely connected right now. Like the psychological dynamics surrounding things like money, livelihood, assets, and material resources or security could be really strong.

The next on my list and last one, it would be about some sort of retrogrades. Often bring recovery, although it takes it's a it's a process, right? So could there be something from the past, like an old way of earning money, or a different kind of asset or talent or resource or some different means of making money that wants to replace some current way, and almost also like rehabilitating something like income, work, and money.

So that's the last one. Would just be like recovering something of like lost or unused resources. All right, let's go to Scorpio rising. We put Scorpio on the ascendant. We have Venus retrograde in the first. That's an identity revision. We want to consider things like how am I presenting myself to the world? How do I dress? What does my health look like?

So anything with respect to how you present yourself to the world, if you're a Scorpio right now, and what you want, what you attract, and what qualities you you want to more deeply embody? Questions about these things are are important right now. The second one on my list is beauty and themes of embodiment. So whether you are experimenting with your wardrobe or your makeup, or your sexuality, or some esthetic relative to maybe your business or whatever.

It's about recognizing that style and and taste evolve because we evolve. So it's not superficial to say I might need a kind of existential makeover right now, because as you change, you need to make sure that. That the outer the outer way that you have of presenting yourself to the world can match, and and and you can feel like you you really are inhabiting a new or different version of yourself, and that may mean that the inner and outer have to do some coordination.

Like sometimes you just need a new pair of shoes, you know. So the next one on my list would be: How are you changing or evolving because of things happening in relationships? This is across the first seventh access. Venus obviously is the natural ruler of the seventh, so we just think about the potential here to be like this is who I think I am, but this is the feedback I'm getting, and the realization is that certain relationships take me away from who I am or reveal me to be someone that I didn't think I was.

So, just a healthy period of reflection on yourself and in your role in relationships. And then, last but not least, is questions about what feels healthy, nourishing, good, and pleasurable, and just making sure that it's healthy versions of those things. Very important with Venus retrograde in the first. All right, let's go forward to Sagittarius. Sagittarius, we have Venus retrograde in the 12th. Now, this is about my top of my list would be hidden desires.

So that could be anything that you push out of view consciously, different kinds of feelings or attractions, jealousies or maybe grief for different kinds of attachments or desires, and you just push them out of your awareness. But during this time, they become harder to ignore, and you have to face them or deal with them. The second one on my list would be solitude and withdrawal or retreat from the world.

So this is a good time to maybe get some distance, whether that's more contemplation, meditation, time for art, maybe few close, kind of private, deep conversations with people, but it's about a kind of private, creative, spiritual sphere of a little bit of distance from the world and distance even from the normal way you have of of being yourself. It's like let me just take a personal retreat. Maybe it's a staycation kind of retreat.

You know, maybe you can't take a literal one, but you get what I mean. The third one on my list is secret, or let's call it, yeah, secret relationships. So you have to be aware of fantasy projections, unavailability, attractions, any kind of thought, desire, urge, longing that is going to undermine you-that's unhealthy-could be here to people or to substances, even.

But there's also questions about just like private or secretive things that you desire or long for, and whether they're good for you or not, and then finally, would something related would be that self undoing of the 12th house, which means how are different unconscious desires or attachments or relationships with difficult people undermining you? So this is about recognizing these people are actually my enemies, and I don't, you know, enemies may be a strong word, but these people are not good for me, or these people actively talk about me behind my back, or these people are actually sabotaging me, and I'm letting them do it.

Why, right? Or I'm undermining myself in these different ways and becoming more aware of it. So that's some of the work for Sag Risings. All right. Well, we're going to Capricorn rising next. So Capricorn rising, we have Venus retrograde in the 11th house. Now this Venus retrograde in the 11th house is speaking to things like friendships and groups, and so there could be a major process of review, revision, questioning, and bringing some changes to things like your friendships or your social circles or different group dynamics, be it professional or personal, and like, do I belong here or not?

Who's in and who's out? What are the group dynamics like? How are they changing? So, just the social dimension of life, like under review. That's number one. The second one is just thinking about what your long-term dreams, goals, and what does the vision of success look like in your life. So that could be things like happiness and popularity, questions about recognition socially or professionally, and maybe there's some changes being made with respect to what you're looking for and who you're trying to get different kind of attention from, yeah.

So then the the next one on my list would be that that support and how you get it or where you get it, both positive and negative because some forms of support look like they're helpful, but they're actually not. So just a total review around who are the people that are healthiest and best for you. That that that clients, allies, your audience. If you have a business, your your clientele or your audience.

How are you renegotiating the relationships that you have with various collectives and how they support you, or how you support them, and how you are dependent upon different social circles or social networks of people? And they they there may be some things that require like renegotiating or or reconfiguring. The last but not least, that to me has more to do, by the way, with just where do you receive support from, how and why in us in the social world, and then last but not least would be questions about how you feel like you belong psychologically and socially, and maybe a chance to grow more confident and to have, I don't know, less unhealthy self-esteem dynamics informing who and why you choose to gain attention or validity from different types of people.

So I would look at that too. All right, let's go forward from Cap Rising to Aquarius rising, which places Venus retrograde in the 10th, first one on my list would be career and vocation. So, if you you might be reconsidering your professional direction, your different kinds of creative, social, public, vocational ideas, dreams, wishes, intentions. What work feels genuinely life giving and creatively inspired, and what feels sort of dead?

That that would be a good question for the Venus retrograde in the 10th public image. So anything surrounding reputation, branding, social or public appearance, anything that's has to be like managed or curated in the social or professional realm in terms of its image or esthetic or its likeability that may need some kind of reworking or maybe under review somehow. The next one would be professional relationships. It could be with bosses or people in the workplace, collaborators, clients, but there might be some complications or entanglements around workplace relationships or workplace, you know, relationship dynamics.

So keep an eye on that. And then last on my list would be, um, what is good enough, right? Like like Venus is about happiness. What would make you feel like you're enough socially and professionally? And I think Venus retrograde can bring up some pretty deep unresolved issues around stuff like self-esteem as it relates to your career or public appearance in the world. So that's another thing to watch for.

Okay, let's go to Pisces last. Venus retrograde in the ninth. So first on my list would be any kind of revision or review of beliefs, philosophies, ideas. They could be religious or moral or or metaphysical or whatever. But it's about your understanding of life and how your understanding of life is changing. That could also be relative to things. The second one on my list is love and truth.

So, belief and ideas and learning and things like sex and love and the goddess or women and spirituality and sensuality. So the overlay between Venus and the exploration of truth. The third one on my list would be just teachers and traditions of learning. That could be going back to school, or it could be you know going back to an old teacher, or going back in time to a text or tradition from a different era.

It could be if there's some shift around how you're learning, studying, or teaching something, or what you're reading. And then last on my list is travel and education, which would be anything that has to do with some kind of meaningful spiritual pilgrimage or travel plans, maybe there's some kind of international topic that's coming up. Different people from different parts of the world. Also, I think education.

Again, I was mentioning this a little bit earlier, but just any kind of educational commitment, a publishing project that could be found here, and and anything related to the pursuit of truth and wisdom, so that's what I'm seeing there for Pisces. So that gets us through all 12 signs. I hope that this was useful for you today. That you got some benefit, just you know, very practical.

Let's just take a look at what the topics are that are being activated tomorrow. We're going to take a look at Mars and Pluto, and then we're going to explore all of the dynamics coming through over the weekend on Friday. Because there's a lot of them that need to be probably revisited once more before the weekend. So stick around. Next, I'm going to tell you about the Year One program.

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