August 6 — Venus enters Libra

The ingress. Venus is in its home sign, operating with full authority. The relational question comes forward.

August 31 — Pre-retrograde shadow begins at 22°52′ Libra

The shadow period opens. Whatever themes, relationships, or questions surface between August 6th and August 31st are the material the retrograde will return to.

October 3 — Venus stations retrograde at 8°29′ Scorpio

Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio — the sign of depth, shared resources, and what is hidden between people. What was surface-level in Libra goes underground in Scorpio.

October 24 — Venus inferior conjunction at 0°45′ Scorpio

The exact midpoint of the retrograde. The deepest turning inward.

November 14 — Venus stations direct at 22°52′ Libra

Venus turns direct at the exact same degree where the shadow began — back in Libra. The cycle completes its first turn.

December — Cycle clears at 8°29′ Scorpio

The full retrograde cycle completes. Whatever the cycle opened in August arrives at a resolution point.

Aries Rising — Libra in the 7th House

Venus moves through your house of significant partnership. The fairness question lands directly in your most important one-on-one relationships. What has been unequal in a partnership — in effort, in recognition, in the terms of the bond — becomes visible now and will be impossible to smooth over entirely before the retrograde returns to it in October.

Taurus Rising — Libra in the 6th House

Venus moves through your house of daily work and the body. The fairness question lands in the ordinary — the division of labor, the daily structure, what your work actually costs and what it actually returns. This is the period to look honestly at whether the daily arrangement is equitable or whether habit has made an imbalance feel normal.

Gemini Rising — Libra in the 5th House

Venus moves through your house of creative expression and joy. The fairness question lands in what you allow yourself to enjoy and create. Whether the creative life is being given its fair portion of your time and attention — or whether obligation has crowded out what genuinely nourishes — is what this transit presses on.

Cancer Rising — Libra in the 4th House

Venus moves through your house of foundation and the private life. The fairness question lands at home — literally and emotionally. What is being carried unequally in the domestic sphere, in the family system, in the emotional bedrock of the private life. This is the period when what has been tacitly accepted at home wants to be named and renegotiated.

Leo Rising — Libra in the 3rd House

Venus moves through your house of communication and the immediate environment. The fairness question lands in what is being said — and what is not being said. The conversation that has been circling without landing, the communication dynamic in a close relationship or with a sibling, the thing that keeps being avoided because naming it feels too direct.

Virgo Rising — Libra in the 2nd House

Venus moves through your house of worth and resources. The fairness question lands in what you charge, what you accept, what you believe your presence is worth materially. Whether the financial arrangements in your life reflect genuine equity or whether you have been accepting less than what is actually fair — this is what Venus in Libra is examining in the 2nd house.

Libra Rising — Libra in the 1st House

Venus moves through your Ascendant — the threshold of the self. This is Venus returning home to your chart’s most personal point. The fairness question lands on the self directly: what you present, what you ask for, whether the version of yourself that shows up in the world is the one that gets to want what it actually wants. The retrograde in October will press on this further.

Scorpio Rising — Libra in the 12th House

Venus moves through your house of the hidden life. The fairness question runs inward and private — what you have been carrying in solitude that has never been named in a relationship, the relational dynamic you process internally without bringing it to the surface. This is a period when what has been kept underground in the emotional life wants acknowledgment, even if only privately.

Sagittarius Rising — Libra in the 11th House

Venus moves through your house of community and collective belonging. The fairness question lands in the group — whether the communities and friendships you are part of are actually reciprocal, whether what you contribute is recognized and matched, whether the collective arrangement is genuinely equitable or has simply become comfortable through repetition.

Capricorn Rising — Libra in the 10th House

Venus moves through your house of vocation and public life. The fairness question lands at the summit — whether your professional contribution is being fairly recognized and compensated, whether the public role you occupy reflects what you actually deserve to be known for, whether the career arrangement is equitable in both directions.

Aquarius Rising — Libra in the 9th House

Venus moves through your house of belief and philosophy. The fairness question lands in the framework — whether the belief system you are living inside actually reflects what you value, whether the philosophical structures you have inherited or chosen are genuinely your own, whether the pursuit of meaning has been equitable to what you actually think is true.

Pisces Rising — Libra in the 8th House

Venus moves through your house of depth, shared resources, and transformation. The fairness question lands in the most intimate territory — what is actually being exchanged in close relationships at the level of money, power, and vulnerability. Whether the bond is genuinely reciprocal at the level beneath the surface, or whether what is shared has never been honestly accounted for.