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Venus retrograde October 2026: retrograde October 3 at 8° Scorpio, direct November 14 at 22° Libra, shadow August 31 to December 15. Free calculator maps it onto your birth chart with houses, station aspects and triple-pass dates.
Retrograde station: October 3, 2026 at 8° Scorpio. Direct station: November 14, 2026 at 22° Libra. Pre-shadow from August 31, post-shadow until December 15. This page computes those moments from the ephemeris the same way it computes your chart, so the dates and degrees agree with the sky rather than with a reprinted list.
Sixteen degrees spanning late Libra and early Scorpio get walked three times. Libra is Venus’s own sign, the territory of partnership, fairness and commitments; early Scorpio is where astrologers put intimacy, trust and merged resources. A Venus retrograde across that border is traditionally read as the season to audit both: which bonds and which values are genuinely yours, and which are habit. The house those degrees occupy in your chart names the specific life area under review, and that is different for every birth time.
Because of the retrograde loop, Venus crosses every degree between 22° Libra and 8° Scorpio three times between late August and mid-December. If you have a personal planet or angle inside that arc, Venus passes it exactly three times, and the calculator dates each pass to the day. Tradition reads the sequence as meet, review, resolve: the first pass raises the theme, the retrograde pass reworks it, the final pass settles it. No point in the arc is also an honest result: then the season is house weather for you rather than a personal transit.
From October 24 to November 13 Venus shares the sky with retrograde Mercury, which spends its whole spell in Scorpio, and the October 26 full moon at 2° Taurus lands mid-window. The two planets station direct on consecutive days, November 13 and 14. Astrologers treat a Venus-Mercury double retrograde as the slowest-moving stretch of the season for agreements about love and money: the traditional advice is to use it for the review itself and place the signatures after mid-November.
Venus stations retrograde on October 3, 2026 at 8° Scorpio and turns direct on November 14 at 22° Libra, a 42-day retrograde. The pre-shadow opens August 31 and the post-shadow runs to December 15. These dates are solved from the Swiss Ephemeris at the exact station moments, not copied from a table, and this is the only Venus retrograde of 2026: the next one does not begin until 2028.
The arc starts at 8° Scorpio, the sign astrologers link to intimacy, trust and shared resources, and retreats into Libra, the Venus-ruled sign of partnership and balance, where it also stations direct. Tradition reads a Venus retrograde as the review season for love, money and worth: relationships and values get re-examined rather than launched. Which life area that review lands in for YOU is the house question, and the calculator computes it from your birth time.
The classic advice is review, not relaunch: astrologers traditionally say exes and old longings resurface under Venus retrograde so they can be seen clearly, and recommend waiting until the retrograde (or its post-shadow, December 15 here) ends before re-signing anything binding. That is attributed tradition, not a prediction. The computed part is personal: run your chart above to see whether this retrograde even touches your planets, and where its review actually lives for you.
Venus covers the 22° Libra to 8° Scorpio stretch three times: forward through the pre-shadow, backward during the retrograde, then forward again through mid-December. Any natal planet or angle you have inside that 16° arc gets three exact Venus crossings, which tradition reads as meet, review, resolve. The calculator computes your exact pass dates; most charts have at least one point in a 16° arc, and some have none, which is a real answer too.
Yes. Mercury is retrograde October 24 to November 13, 2026, entirely in Scorpio, so the two retrogrades overlap for three weeks and end back to back: Mercury goes direct November 13, Venus on November 14. Astrologers read that overlap window as double review season, especially for relationship conversations and shared finances, both Scorpio territory.