From Saturday, March 1, to Saturday, April 12, 2025 pretty Venus goes retrograde. “Retrograde means she’s sleeping. She’s resting,” famed astrologer Susan Miller tells Attract. “Venus rests each 18 months, so not fairly often.” Venus retrograde is notoriously disliked, particularly amongst magnificence lovers. When a planet seems to maneuver backwards within the sky, the areas of your life it guidelines—in Venus’s case, that’s love, cash, and, most significantly for our functions, magnificence—turn out to be sluggish. It’s why communication is so terrible throughout pesky Mercury retrograde, which occurs at a a lot greater frequency than Venus’s. “Typical knowledge about Venus retrograde could be very one dimensional,” says Tali Edut of the AstroTwins. “Do not fall in love, do not replace your look, do not date anybody new, however we all know that that is not likely what occurs in life.”
Even I, an expert astrologer who beforehand used electional astrology to decide on the timing of my nostril job, have damaged these retrograde guidelines earlier than. The counterpart to female Venus, Mars, the erotic motion planet, was retrograde from December 6, 2024, to February 23, 2025. As a result of Mars is related to, nicely, issues formed like penises, the traditional magnificence knowledge for Mars retrograde is to skip something involving needles, like tattoo, piercing, and injectable appointments. However I went forward and saved a Botox appointment I used to be wanting ahead to anyway. The outcome was actually the perfect Botox I’ve had shortly. It left me questioning: Might I ignore typical Venus retrograde recommendation, too?
“I would not ever ignore Venus retrograde,” Edut says. “This isn’t a time to simply cool down within the salon chair and go, ‘I do not know, do one thing completely different and enjoyable.’” As a substitute, Edut advises, use the time to collect inspiration for a change you make as soon as the planet goes direct. If you have already got an appointment you may’t cancel, put together as a lot as you may. “You need to go in with photos, you need to have a session together with your stylist, you need to have an AI generated image of what you may seem like with that type first,” Edut says.
This 12 months’s retrograde falls in a method that may warrant further warning in terms of drastic makeovers. As Miller defined to me, Venus retrograde begins in Aries on Saturday, March 1, and stays in Aries by Thursday, March 27, when it shifts into Pisces, earlier than going direct within the water signal on Saturday, April 12. Every signal guidelines completely different components of the physique, and Aries guidelines the pinnacle. Because of this, conventional knowledge says that you just actually shouldn’t do something drastic to your look throughout that first a part of this Venus retrograde.
