Venus retrograde, as it travels through Scorpio, will continue to bring things to light from the past and from the depths of our psyche, with a confessional disposition, intensity, a need to process how we share, create space for intimacy, but also review how we claim and use our fighting spirit. It is time to look beneath the surface and address patterns of dysfunction or needs, around values, finances, unions, creations, and self worth, that have been present for a lifetime. Something is calling to become more conscious about underlying issues, or perhaps to change course about how we deal with them. It is a period to eliminate or mend the value of things and our own value.

Liberating ourselves from toxic emotions, but also returning to feelings, issues, people and experiences from the past in order to clarify their deeper meaning, can be a profoundly meaningful process. Personal crises may bring us closer to some people, attract or repel others, while the quality of our interactions or need to share may fluctuate considerably. Nothing leaves us untouched, and emotions are intense and all-encompassing.

Will we come closer, or will we move further apart? Both scenarios are part of a process that is healing and cathartic, filled with passion or intensity, a need for adjustments and synchronicities, as well as encounters that have an impact.

This is a period of inner transformation concerning unions of all kinds, but also patterns or relationship contracts that either need to be renegotiated or have completed their cycle. It will be interesting to observe whom we meet during this period, or who “seeks us out” — especially from the past — and what we negotiate or share with them.

It is of value to observe how every circumstance creates a need to understand the deeper motives and truths about ourselves and others, and perhaps to observe why we experience things with greater intensity. Even completely coincidental encounters may help us develop a more meaningful relationship with ourselves or inner desires and motives.

The timing may be strange and unpredictable, but what matters is what we keep, what we correct and what we leave behind.

Venus will appear to travel backwards in the sign of Scorpio, a fixed Water sign, and Libra, a cardinal Air sign: this seems to invite us to give the “kiss of life”, or a new breath, to a deeper desire, a creation, a love affair, love itself, a relationship, a contract or collaboration that we have left unfinished, to end it or reconsider it completely.

This is a very rare noteworty and unpredictable period

The Venus retrograde period, beginning on 3 October at 9° Scorpio and ending on 14–15 November at 23° Libra, is quite rare and will surface considerable activity, involving themes that have been activated since September 2026 and the Lunar Eclipse at the end of August.

Firstly, because it takes place with Pluto out of bounds of the ecliptic in Aquarius, forming three waning squares (15 September–20 October–9 December): a redefinition of issues and the closure of chapters through crisis, more deliberate intentions or revelations. We can use this period to shed what has become overly complicated, become more coscious of dysfunctions, or the way we use our power. We may feel empowered or weakened in certain ways, express love and opinions around values more intensely -we make space and we change through what and whom we love and value.

Issues of representation may also emerge. Seemingly small things that had been overlooked will ultimately make a difference. When Venus squares Pluto, we often encounter situations in which collaborations arise and we meet not the key person themselves, but their representative. This can be particularly significant for those who are represented in any way by an intermediary in any negotiation.

The alignment of our relationships with the group is highlighted, as is creativity within the group, through conflict and questions around acceptance.

Venus stationed Rx very close to the Mars–Pluto opposition, placing emphasis on issues of independence and self-defence. An intense polarisation and awareness between autonomy and co-depedency. There may be a need to find more balance, deal with reevaluation or separation of things and resources, but also a need to address what has reached its purpose and proceed from now on in a simpler way. Resolution of difficult problems and negotiations are being addressed at this time. This also highlights Mercury that is in overdrive to fix problems, or resolve a conflict. In the fixed signs this signifies a need for stabilisation, a tendency for resistance, or the need to examine all points of view.

There can be considerable resistance to change and rigidity, but also a strong need to focus on an activity, undertaking or problem that is difficult and may involve many people, sides, points of view. More generally, there is a need to penetrate more deeply into issues and to bring order and healing to a situation. The question in all of this is how far to take something and to think thoroughly is a situation or point of view has reached an end, ot it can take us somewhere else. The pressure is asking to take something we love, a skill or something we are interested in, and give it actual tangible value. To facilitate a change, so that we economise on resources. To plan a change that will ultimately bring more autonomy.

From September through December, Venus will form a series of Yods, conversing with the planets Neptune and Uranus. This speaks of disolution and reforms in unions and financial arrangements. Inspiration and experimentation in collaborations, relationships, money and creativity, and many adjustments reuiring reevaluation of intital ideas. This occurs three times because of the retrograde motion, and becomes a boomerang configuration through the oppositions to Chiron, which shifted from 0° Taurus to late degrees of Aries in retrograde motion. This is an aspect of healing self worth through partnerships or money arrangements, but also an aspect of finding alternate ways to create and attach value to things, mend and heal problems. Boundaries and sensitivities will surface.

The individual and the collective. What do we create, and how do we share it? Another perspective on things, alternative scenarios and approaches. The Yods can show up as interesting ways to combine different elements, and it is better to let the process unfold rather than think about it too much.

Teaching, healing, education, alternative paths, assessments and corrections, adjustments and matters concerning boundaries require sensitive handling and the creation of a space in which autonomy, value and the way that value is shared with the whole can be negotiated.

Issues of undermining may surface around our values or personal worth.

(Sept. 10, Oct. 23, Nov. 29, 2026 Venus opposes Chiron, Sept. 15, Oct.21, Dec. 6 Venus quincunx Neptune, Sept 20, Oct. 16. Dec. 9 Venus quincunx Uranus)

Corrections in relationships and collaborations from the past, and the resolution of differences or outstanding matters, are also part of this process. Eliminating complexity, addressing trust in oursleves and others, adjusting and using intuition, making corrections as we go along, developing inner trust will assist this process. Very firm or rigid plans may not work out. Two avenues of creation, collaboration, or sources of income may be part of this juggling.

Venus forms a waning square to Mars in Leo on October 10-11, — an attempt to stabilise the above through tension that opens a path forward, or seeks to split or cut something off. There may be disagreements concerning productivity, pushing things too hard that may block them. Mars in Leo highilights Issues around identity, self, sexuality, children, and heroic actions that may surface collectively. Conflcts occur around issues of validation or recognition and authenticity. Use this energy for positive outlets that enthuse or revitalise self. Who works and what is of value maybe a source of friction. The fixed signs deal with ego and desires. This can be a passionate combination for creativity and relationships.

Venus forms harmonious apsects to the Lunar Nodes, three times, due to the retrograde effect, and sextiles to Mars and Jupiter twice. These aspects help clarify, move forward with, or provide opportunity and assistance

(Sept. 10, Oct. 30, Nov. 23 Venus trines North Node, Sept. 10, Nov. 4, Nov. 28 Venus sextile Jupiter, Nov 10, Dec. 12 Venus sextile Mars).

The inferior conjunction takes place on 24 October at 1° Scorpio EEDT. A matter may come to an end through a decision, healing, illumination or clarity.

The contra-parallel asepcts of Venus with Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Chiron, and the parallel aspects with the North Node, describe a complex, but creative and experimental attempt in relationships, creativity, or several options, that may either be conducted from afar, or of a temporal form.

Whatever has been activated as an issue in relationships, collaborations, values, possesions, finances, assessments, individualy and collectively since end of August and especially September 10, will go through a cycle with many returns to past issues, corrections, adjustments and adaptations, and unfolding until Decmber 23. Many things will startle us, feel unexpected, surface tension and demand resolution. A good period to review and revisit what we do not like, and ultimately reach deeper with a sense of purpose regarding our creativity, and our sense of self worth.

Pluto’s station direct on 15–16 October will bring to the surface a lot of tension and revelations around the world. An inner process of psychological significance, as well as deeper goals and desires, and financial or trust-related issues that have their roots in late April and early May 2026, is now becoming clearer. What has been repressed will surface. A readiness for change may become more intense and apparent.

Questions of aesthetics, and harmony, connected with our environment, as well as all of the above, will concern us and make us more sensitive, and we will want to share them or assist them in some way.

The retrograde periods of the personal planets are more suitable for subjective matters, reviewing, and rekindling themes, creative corrections, revelations, rather than for objective evaluation and entirely new ventures and new people. They support innovation and discovery, as well as a deeper understanding of how and what we share, or what we need on a deeper level.

Turning inward, and returning to the source of matters as a form of replenishment and reassessment, is necessary.

We may discover ways to help others, to love again, and to understand what we are missing.

This particular Venus cycle takes us back eight years, to October 2018.

There is alot to discover about how we relate as this period brings tremendous awareness of how close we actually are to the people and things with which we are involved.

Our relationship with the way we receive acceptance or experience being loved changes.

In the same way, as our creations and possessions, as well as our inner space, can change when we rearrange the furniture, throw away what is no longer useful, or make room to live together, to accommodate others, or simply to coexist with ourselves.

For those studying astrology, it is very helpful to keep notes during every retrograde of the personal planets, based on your natal chart, so that you can review them during the next retrograde in the same sign and draw conclusions. Each horoscope will experience these cycles through a different area of life.

© 2026 Eleni Kostika Dipl. IAA, Astrologer

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