27/09/2026
VENUS RETROGRADE IN SCORPIO BY DAMACENA TANIS ( Art by me -freshly painted🎨)
This upcoming Venus Retrograde in Scorpio will be epic. It’s the last Venus Retrograde Starpoint in Scorpio in our lifetimes. One for the record books.
On October 3, Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio, before entering the metamorphic phase of her cycle when she meets with the Sun. This is the interval when she moves invisibly and reshapes herself before returning renewed.
At the heart of this retrograde is Venus's conjunction with the Sun, (Oct 23rd) at her inferior conjunction (0° Scorpio), when Venus passes between Earth and Sun and turns her dark face toward us. This is the sacred marriage. The Sun is the king, the solar principle, consciousness and will made visible. Venus is the goddess, the one who draws him into her chamber and asks him to set down his crown. In the old temple traditions, this meeting was consummated in darkness, in the bridal bed where the king surrendered his sovereignty to be renewed by her. He entered as ruler and emerged transformed, carrying her mysteries back into the visible world. This is the deep pattern beneath the Venus-Sun conjunction during retrograde: a dissolution that produces renewal, a surrender that becomes initiation.
This year the chamber holds an additional presence. Venus in Scorpio forms a square to Pluto in Aquarius, and Pluto is Scorpio's own ruler, so this square carries unusual weight. It is the underworld god showing up inside his own house, bringing his charge directly into the marriage bed rather than staying at its threshold.
Pluto in Aquarius has spent recent years exposing the hidden architectures of collective life, the systems, ideologies, and networks that quietly govern how people belong to each other. When Venus squares him from Scorpio, the goddess brings her intimate, embodied knowing into direct tension with those larger structures.
