Some transits come and go without much impact, but Venus Retrograde is not one of those transits for me. I won’t lie—Venus retrograde has a way of shaking things up for me. I was born with Venus retrograde, which means its cycles speak directly to my soul’s evolution—and every time this planet moves through its eight-year retrograde cycle, I feel the invitation to go deeper into my own transformation.
Venus retrogrades every 18 months, tracing a perfect five-petaled rose across the sky, completing a full cycle every eight years. Each Venus retrograde isn’t just an isolated event—it connects back to previous cycles, weaving a story of love, self-worth, creativity, and abundance.
Think back to eight years ago. What themes around love, relationships, or creative expression were unfolding in your life? This retrograde is an opportunity to close that chapter, integrate its lessons, and step into a new level of Venusian wisdom.
For me, every Venus retrograde brings a homecoming—a chance to rewire my beliefs around love and beauty, reclaim my deepest desires, and align with my truest creative essence. This is why I don’t fear Venus retrograde—I honor it, work with it, and allow it to reshape me from the inside out.
Venus Retrograde: A Time to Return to Your Essence
Venus governs what we love, how we love, and how we allow ourselves to be loved. But it also rules:
• Self-worth — How deeply do you believe you are deserving of love, success, and pleasure?
• Creativity — Are you honouring your artistic gifts and expressing your soul’s beauty?
• Money & Abundance — Do you feel in flow with prosperity, or is there resistance?
• Relationships — Are you in harmony with your connections, or is it time for realignment?
With Venus moving backward through the sky, we are not meant to push forward. This is a powerful pause—a chance to re-evaluate what truly aligns with our heart and soul. And the best way to navigate this energy? Mantra and yantra.
Chanting the Venus Mantra: Rewiring Love, Abundance & Creative Power
Because I was born with Venus retrograde, I’ve spent my life learning how to transform Venusian energy from within. I know firsthand that love, beauty, and abundance are not things we “get” from the outside world—they are frequencies we cultivate from within.
Chanting the Venus (Shukra) Mantra during retrograde is one of the most powerful ways to shift your vibration and reprogram your subconscious mind to align with Venus’s highest gifts.
Venus Mantra:
“ॐ शुं शुक्राय नमः” (Om Shum Shukraya Namah)
Why This Mantra is So Powerful During Retrograde:
• Dissolves old programming around love and self-worth—especially wounds from past relationships.
• Strengthens your magnetism—helping you attract what is truly in alignment.
• Activates creative flow—perfect if you’ve been feeling blocked or uninspired.
• Realigns you with financial abundance—Venus isn’t just about love, she’s also about money and prosperity.
How I Use the Venus Mantra
I chant this mantra 108 times every morning during Venus retrograde using a crystal mala. As I chant, I visualize Venus’s soft pink and golden light enveloping me, dissolving old fears, and awakening deep self-love, radiance, and creative confidence.
This practice isn’t about waiting for love or abundance to arrive—it’s about aligning myself with its frequency so that I naturally attract it.
Painting the Venus Yantra: Anchoring Venusian Energy Through Sacred Art
While the mantra works through sound, the Venus Yantra works through form and color. This ancient geometric design is a visual transmission of Venus’s energy—a way to physically embody the shift you are calling in.
Why Painting the Venus Yantra During Retrograde is So Potent
• It activates your feminine energy, awakening creativity, intuition, and flow.
• It helps you release past relationship patterns and step into love from a higher frequency.
• It strengthens inner harmony, helping you feel beautiful, worthy, and abundant from within.
My Venus Yantra Ritual
• I create sacred space. I light candles, place fresh flowers on my altar, and let soft music play.
• I trace or draw the Venus Yantra. I use pinks, golds, greens, and whites—colors that amplify Venus’s essence.
• As I paint, I chant the Venus mantra, infusing my intentions into the yantra.
• Once complete, I place the yantra on my altar as a sacred activation for the entire retrograde period.
Each brushstroke becomes a meditation. Each color choice reflects an intention. By the time the yantra is finished, I feel energetically aligned with Venus’s highest gifts—ready to move forward in love, beauty, and abundance.
Why This Venus Retrograde is So Important for You
Venus is offering you a portal right now—an invitation to step into your highest self-worth, deepest creative power, and most authentic relationships.
The past eight years have been shaping your Venusian journey. Who were you eight years ago? What lessons did you learn? What cycles are now ready to be closed?
This retrograde is not here to break you—it’s here to break you open. To show you where love, beauty, and abundance already exist within you. To help you shed old identities and step into the version of you that is fully aligned with what you desire.
How to Navigate This Retrograde With Power & Grace
1. Chant the Venus Mantra every morning to align your vibration with love and abundance.
2. Paint the Venus Yantra to visually anchor in new frequencies of self-worth and creativity.
3. Reflect on your eight-year Venus cycle—what needs to be released? What are you ready to claim?
4. Trust the process—Venus is guiding you back to your truest essence.
Step Into Your Venusian Power
Venus retrograde is a gift, a time to return to yourself and rediscover what truly lights you up. It’s not about external validation—it’s about knowing, deep in your bones, that you are already enough. That you already radiate beauty, love, and magnetism.
So as Venus traces her path through the sky, how will you honor this moment?
Will you let old patterns fall away? Will you step into deeper self-love? Will you use this time to awaken the most radiant, empowered version of yourself?
The universe is waiting for your answer. This is your time.
