From Saturday, March 1, to Saturday, April 12, 2025 fairly 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—change into sluggish. It’s why communication is so terrible throughout pesky Mercury retrograde, which occurs at a a lot larger frequency than Venus’s. “Standard 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, knowledgeable 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 stored a Botox appointment I used to be wanting ahead to anyway. The end result was truthfully the most effective Botox I’ve had shortly. It left me questioning: May I ignore standard Venus retrograde recommendation, too?
“I would not ever ignore Venus retrograde,” Edut says. “This isn’t a time to simply calm down within the salon chair and go, ‘I do not know, do one thing completely different and enjoyable.’” As an alternative, 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 possibly can’t cancel, put together as a lot as you possibly can. “You wish to go in with footage, you wish to have a session along with your stylist, you wish to have an AI generated image of what you will appear like with that type first,” Edut says.
This 12 months’s retrograde falls in a means that may warrant further warning with regards to drastic makeovers. As Miller defined to me, Venus retrograde begins in Aries on Saturday, March 1, and stays in Aries by means of 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 simply actually shouldn’t do something drastic to your look throughout that first a part of this Venus retrograde.