Sky events

Venus retrograde

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The useful word for Venus retrograde is revision, not disaster. From December 16, 2029 to January 26, 2030, the planet appears to retrace its path in Capricorn, bringing affection, taste, reciprocity, and what you choose to value back for a more deliberate look.

Pre-shadow begins
November 15, 2029 · 09:33 UTC
Stations retrograde
December 16, 2029 · 23:47 UTC
Stations direct
January 26, 2030 · 21:33 UTC
Post-shadow ends
February 27, 2030 · 14:19 UTC
Entirely within
Capricorn

The station times are NASA JPL's, from its DE441 ephemeris.

When it happens

Venus turns retrograde

Exact at

  • Venus turns retrograde
  • Venus turns direct

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Retrograde motion is an effect of perspective as planets move at different speeds, while the astrological tradition uses the interval for return and revision. In the December 16, 2029 to January 26, 2030 cycle, Capricorn directs the review toward responsibility, structure, and the long game behind a visible result. The advantage is recognition of what feels proportionate and worth tending.

The caution for this Venus cycle is pleasing the moment while avoiding the preference underneath it. Between December 16, 2029 and January 26, 2030, name what you value before negotiating how to share it; use a second pass to improve a choice rather than assuming every delay carries a message.

Reading confidence 40%. This reading uses the sky alone. Your own chart, with a birth time and place, makes a reading more specific.

Questions to carry

  • Which part of affection, taste, reciprocity, and what you choose to value would benefit from a thoughtful second pass during this Venus cycle?
  • What could you name what you value before negotiating how to share it before calling the matter settled on January 26, 2030?

In the real sky

From Earth, Venus seems to slow down, stop and drift backward against the stars for a few weeks. Nothing about its orbit changes: Venus, on a faster inside track, overtakes Earth, and the view from a moving planet makes it look like a reversal.

The start and the end are stations, the days the planet seems to stand still before it turns. Those are the moments counted down here.

What to look for

  • Venus is the brightest point in the sky after the Moon. When it turns retrograde it is the evening star, low in the west after sunset; it passes between Earth and the Sun in the middle of the cycle and returns as the morning star in the east before dawn.

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Behind this eventExact times, positions, sources, and method
Retrograde station
2029-12-16T23:47:36.000Z
Direct station
2030-01-26T21:33:06.000Z
Pre-shadow begins
2029-11-15T09:33:28.105Z
Post-shadow ends
2030-02-27T14:19:06.448Z
Ecliptic longitude
294.03° · 24°01′ Capricorn
Fact source
sky.json, generated 2026-09-30
Derived for display
station signs and degrees read from the engine at the committed instants
Derived for display
exact stations from NASA JPL Horizons (DE441), src/data/nasa-event-instants.json; the engine catalog gave 2029-12-16T23:49:27.187Z and 2030-01-26T21:33:25.224Z

The times of planet ingresses, stations and aspects come from NASA JPL's DE441 ephemeris, read through its Horizons service. Other instants and the positions come from the site's astronomy engine and its committed yearly and monthly sky catalogs, the same data behind the Almanac and the daily horoscopes. Times are universal time; in the Americas an instant can fall the evening before the date printed. Sign-by-sign notes, where present, use whole-sign solar houses. The readings are a tradition being applied, not a forecast. The methodology page sets out both halves.