Venus Retrograde 2020 – Disillusion – Astrology King

Venus retrograde 2020 begins on May 13 at 21° Gemini and ends on June 25, at 5° Gemini.

Venus retrograde generally makes it harder to give and receive love and affection. During this fated period in your love life, old friends or lovers may reappear or you may relive past life experiences in order to sort out karmic issues.

Venus retrograde May 2020 is square Neptune which increases the need for tenderness and affection but can also cause disillusionment in love, confusion, and deception.

More detail about Venus retrograde 2020 follows some general information at Venus retrograde in transit. Information about Venus retrograde in the natal chart can be found at the end of this article.

Venus Retrograde Transit

Transiting Venus retrograde occurs once every 19 months for a total of six weeks (42 days). This means Venus is retrograde only 7% of the time, the least amount of any planet. The next closest is Mars retrograde at 9% then Mercury retrograde at 19%. Therefore, Venus retrograde is the most strongly felt of all retrograde planets.

During Venus in retrograde motion, your love life enters a fated period. Giving and receiving love and affection becomes more difficult. Old friends or lovers may reappear or you may relive past life experiences in order to sort out karmic issues. As Venus also rules money, it’s traditionally thought that Venus retrograde is not an ideal time for investing or buying luxury items.

Venus retrograde in transit is a time of introspection and reassessment. You will likely become interested in someone or something of value that would bring you pleasure. Destiny encounters are possible and you may actually come into contact with your soul mate. If so, you should experience a feeling of inevitability or familiarity. However, it is better to wait until Venus turns direct to make your move.

Use Venus retrogrades to improve how you feel about yourself, to love yourself more. Think about what really brings you pleasure. Find the reasons for problems in earlier or current relationships. This is where old lovers reappearing can help you clear away the past to make room for new relationships. Even reminiscing about old partners will help to remove your karmic baggage and lighten the load.

Venus Retrograde 2020

The Venus retrograde phase is just one part of the retrograde cycle. The whole cycle includes Venus going direct, retrograde, and direct again over the same degrees, or the retrograde zone (5° to 21° Gemini). The two direct phases are known as shadow periods. The three phases of Venus retrograde 2020 are:

1. April 9 to May 13 – The first shadow phase from Venus entering the retrograde zone until Venus stationary retrograde (5° to 21° Gemini).
2. May 13 to June 25 – The retrograde phase lasts from Venus stationary retrograde until the Venus direction station (21° to 5° Gemini).
3. June 25 to July 29 – The second shadow phase lasts from Venus stationary direct until Venus leaves the retrograde zone (5° to 21° Gemini).

Venus Enters Retrograde Zone

Venus enters the retrograde zone on April 9, 2020, at 05°20′ Gemini [see chart]. During the first shadow period, you will get an idea of the love and money issues that will arise during the retrograde phase.

Venus Stationary Retrograde

Venus stations retrograde on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, at 21°50′ Gemini. The chart below shows the challenging red aspect of Venus square Neptune (♀□♆ ). A difficult fixed star leaves no doubt that Venus retrograde 2020 will cause problems for some love relationships.

Venus Retrograde Square Neptune

Venus square Neptune climaxes May 20 but stays within 2° orb from April 28 to May 25. So it a very strong influence on this whole retrograde cycle. It increases your need for tenderness and affection but can also cause disillusionment in love, confusion, and deception.

You may experience feelings of insecurity about yourself and how you look. A poor self-image can lead to relationship difficulties but there are other effects of this aspect that can lead to disappointment in your love life.

You may also be more susceptible to lies, deception, disloyalty, fraud, and generally being taken advantage of. So if you are dating during Venus retrograde 2020, it is most important to avoid over-idealizing a romantic interest as you could ignore their obvious faults which are plain for others to see.

Venus square Neptune will be especially challenging for love relationships that already suffer from suspicion and mistrust. But relationships based on mutual understanding and trust may actually enjoy increased tenderness and romance.

The potential for low self-esteem and lack of self-discipline present a challenge if you are dieting. You could also be more susceptible to the depressive and addictive influence of drugs and alcohol. Regular users should beware of overdose or being ripped off by dealers. This aspect also suggests the coronavirus pandemic will be more difficult to control, with an increased risk of infection and disease.

Fixed Stars

The star chart below shows Venus stationary retrograde in the Horns of the Bull. However, it is most closely aligns with two stars in the Constellations of Orion and Auriga.

• 21 ♊ 13 – Gamma Orionis, Bellatrix
• 21 ♊ 50 – Venus retrograde 2020
• 22 ♊ 08 – Alpha Aurigae, Capella

Venus pulls up short of Capella but has already passed over Bellatrix. Therefore, Bellatrix is the dominant influence.

Fixed star Bellatrix with Venus indicates “much suffering through love affairs owing to unrestrained feelings.” ^[1]

In general, the Female Warrior Star gives courage and fighting spirit, advancement and success, great civil or military honor, renown, wealth, eminent friends, quick decision-making with thoughts and plans being realized with energy, strategic talents, the ability to organize, and discrimination.

But poorly aspected (square Neptune), Bellatrix brings envy and hatred from others, a tendency to fight futile or lost causes, sudden dishonor, accidents causing blindness and ruin, the reckless aggressiveness of a belligerent daredevil. ^[2]

Bellatrix also indicates lucky and loquacious women with “mighty tongues”. ^[3] It rules the right side of the chest, chest cavity, and lungs. ^[4]

Venus Stationary Direct

Venus stations direct on Thursday, June 25, 2020, at 05°20′ Gemini. Venus makes no planetary aspect as shown in this chart.

Venus leaves the retrograde zone on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, at 21 ♊ 50 [see chart]. Reinforcing the major Venus retrograde theme of dissolution in love, Venus is again square Neptune by less than one degree.

Venus Retrograde Dates

• 2018, October 5 to November 16 — 25° Libra to 11° Scorpio
• 2020, May 13 to June 25 — 21° Gemini to 5° Gemini
• 2021, December 19 to January 29, 2022 — 26° to 11° Capricorn

Natal Venus Retrograde

Natal Venus retrograde suggests you have some difficulty in giving and receiving love and affection. You may experience sadness in love or have to endure hardship or delay. Lack of self-love, social anxiety, shyness, and even financial hardship are also possible.

Often these challenges are a result of past life relationship issues. Due to the laws of karma, if you caused suffering or hardship to a lover in an earlier life, you shall experience something similar yourself during this life. Venus retrograde acts like Mars so perhaps you hurt someone you loved. Maybe you had an affair, walked out when they needed you most, or physically injured them.

Whatever happened in past romances, you come into this life with those bad memories etched in your soul. You probably don’t recognize them as memories but as déjà vu or unexplained guilt. Especially when young, there can be a repeating theme of challenging events related to your past.

Sadness and disappointment may come from unrequited love, forced marriage, sexual abuse, mental illness, or physical disability. Learning to love yourself is critical in working through your Venus in retrograde issues. Other signs of natal Venus retrograde are poor personal hygiene and not caring about how you look.

Self-love can start with beautifying your physical appearance. Using fashion, cosmetics, and beauty treatments can greatly improve your self-love, therefore making you more lovable. However, natal Venus in retrograde can also show as excessive use of makeup and jewelry or even disfigurement from cosmetic surgery.

The aim of Venus retrograde in your natal chart is to perfect those areas of your love life which once let you down. As your relationship skills improve with experience, your karmic debt will be repaid and you start to enjoy more loving relationships.

References

1. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.145.
2. Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1971, p.25.
3. Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, George Noonan, 1990, p.59.
4. The Fixed Star Health and Behavior Imbalance, Ted George and Barbara Parker, 1985, p.29.