Venus retrograde – · 43 days
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Venus retrograde 2111: dates
Venus turns retrograde roughly every 18 months for about forty days, so not every year has one; when a year doesn't, this page says so.
Times for UTC
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30,906 daysuntil retrograde
Direct now
Venus is direct
The next retrograde begins on at 4° Leo and ends on at 18° Cancer.
- Turns retrograde
- · 4° Leo
- Retrograde ends
- · 18° Cancer
- Shadow
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- Duration
- 43 days retrograde
Venus in 21111 retrograde
Leo 4° → Cancer 18°
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Themes
RelationshipsValuesMoneyAesthetics
Old relationships and unsettled accounts resurface. It is considered a time to hold off on big aesthetic changes and expensive purchases.
Venus retrograde periods in 2111
Times shown in: UTCShadow periods are the dates when the planet first and last crosses the degrees where its retrograde begins and ends.
Frequently asked questions
When is Venus retrograde in 2111?
June 28, 2111 – August 10, 2111 (4° Leo → 18° Cancer)
How often does Venus go retrograde?
Every eighteen months, for about forty days.
Should you start a relationship during the retrograde?
Tradition says relationships begun during the retrograde are reconsidered once it ends.
Is it a good time for shopping?
For expensive, long-lasting purchases (jewellery, furniture, cosmetic procedures) it is usually advised to wait until the retrograde ends.
Venus stands for relationships, taste, money and what we value. During the retrograde someone from the past or an old matter may return, and both relationships and spending come up for reassessment.
Big aesthetic changes and rushed relationship decisions are usually best postponed. It's a fertile time for rethinking what you really want.
What is Venus retrograde?
Venus is the least retrograde of the personal planets. Its synodic cycle, the time it takes to return to the same alignment with the Sun and Earth, lasts about 584 days, or a little over 19 months, and only around six weeks of that is spent moving backward. In terms of time, that is only about 7 percent of the cycle, less than any other planet. Because the cycle is longer than a year but shorter than two, some calendar years contain a Venus retrograde and others have none at all.
The retrograde always happens around inferior conjunction, when Venus passes between Earth and the Sun. That makes it a visible turning point in the sky. Before the retrograde, Venus shines as the evening star in the western sky after sunset, reaching its greatest brilliance shortly before it stations. During the retrograde it sinks toward the Sun, vanishes for a few days around the conjunction, then reappears before dawn as the morning star. Traditional astrologers saw this change of role as Venus going through a kind of underworld passage: the planet of love and value disappears and comes back in a different guise.
How the dates on this page are calculated
The page uses Venus's apparent geocentric longitude in the tropical zodiac. The retrograde station is the moment its daily motion turns from forward to backward, the direct station the moment it turns forward again; both are located by a scan through the year and refined by bisection to under a second. Each station is listed with its sign and degree.
Venus covers a backward arc of roughly fifteen degrees, and because it moves slowly near its stations, the shadows are long: the pre-shadow starts when Venus first reaches the degree of its future direct station, and the post-shadow ends when it returns to the degree of its retrograde station. Each shadow typically lasts about a month, so the whole episode, from entering the pre-shadow to leaving the post-shadow, takes around four months. All times are calculated in UTC and shown in the time zone you select.
How to read it: the eight-year pattern
Five Venus synodic cycles add up to almost exactly eight years, just a couple of days short. As a result, Venus retrogrades repeat in an eight-year rhythm: a retrograde in 2111 will be echoed eight years later at nearly the same dates and in nearly the same part of the zodiac, only a couple of degrees earlier. The five inferior conjunctions within that span are spread around the zodiac at roughly equal intervals, and joining them in order traces a five-pointed star, the famous Venus pentagram.
For interpretation, this means a Venus retrograde can be compared with the one eight years before. Astrologers suggest looking back: relationship questions, financial decisions or creative choices from that earlier period often resurface in a new form. Note the sign and degree of both stations on this page, check whether they fall near planets or angles in your own chart, and use the related sign meanings to see how Venus is expressed in that sign. The live status ring tells you whether Venus is currently in its pre-shadow, retrograde, post-shadow or direct.
Frequently asked questions
Why is there no Venus retrograde in some years?
Venus's retrogrades are about 19 months apart, so their spacing does not fit neatly into calendar years. Most years contain one, but some fall entirely in the gap between two retrogrades. In those years this page simply shows that there is no retrograde.
What is the eight-year Venus cycle?
It is the near-repetition of Venus's phases every eight years, because five synodic cycles fit almost exactly into eight solar years. Retrogrades, morning-star and evening-star periods all recur close to the same dates and signs after eight years, shifting slowly backward over the decades.
Can you see Venus while it is retrograde?
For most of the retrograde, yes: it is a bright evening object at the start and a bright morning object at the end. It is lost in the Sun's glare only for a short spell around inferior conjunction. Very rarely Venus passes directly across the Sun's disc; these transits come in pairs eight years apart, separated by more than a century.
Why does Venus stay so long in one sign in a retrograde year?
Normally Venus moves through a sign in about four weeks. In a retrograde year it slows down, backs up and then has to cover the same degrees again, so it can spend around four months in one sign or moving back and forth between two neighbouring signs.