Venus Returns

Venus stays close to us even as she roams along her orbit. As an inner planet, Venus takes 4-5 weeks to transit a single sign, and goes retrograde every 18 months. The astrological lover makes sure to stop in and make a grand return to the same point in the sky it occupied at your birth roughly once every year.

Your Venus return is a bubbly time that calls for celebration, delight, and all the finer things. You’ll notice a sparkle in your eyes, and a playful energy that tempts you to skip school, call in sick, and spend all day shopping for luxury bath products or setting up a big date.

Speaking of big dates, your Venus return doesn’t have to involve literal romantic intrigue, but Venus loves love! If you are looking to spark up something new, this is a good time to ask that cutie you always see in the elevator for their number. Although Venus loves to make a scene, its annual return might not pack quite the wallop that, say, Saturn does with its 29-year orbit, because it’s only been a year since Venus showed up last!

Planetary returns are all about the cycles of growth and transformation of energy, and in astrological time a year isn’t that long. Nonetheless, Venus doesn’t like to be ignored and a great way to celebrate its annual return is to spend some time pampering yourself and getting in touch with your sensuality in whichever way feels the most titillating!