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✨ Venus Retrograde Dates & What That Means for You ✨

🔥 Preshadow Phase: February 18, 2025 – March 1, 2025 (The Warm-Up 🏋️‍♀️)

💥 Retrograde: March 1, 2025 – April 12, 2025 (The Main Event 🎭)

🌀 Post-Shadow Phase: April 12, 2025 – April 26, 2025 (The Aftermath 🧹)

So what’s the deal? Venus, the planet of love, beauty, money, and pleasure, is taking a lil’ backspin in the sky. Think of it like your ex sliding into your DMs at 2 AM—it’s disruptive, it’s messy, and it’s probably not in your best interest. 🚩 The preshadow is where you start noticing shifts (subtle red flags 🚨, weird vibes in love or finances 💰), the actual retrograde is where the drama unfolds 🎬, and the post-shadow is where you clean up the cosmic mess. 🧽

🔮 Spiritual Meaning & Effects 🔮 Venus retrograde is like a divine relationship audit from the universe. 🌌 It forces us to slow down and really reflect on our relationships, self-worth, finances, and personal values. Expect old lovers to resurface 👀, dating apps to feel like a haunted house 👻, and financial decisions to require extra scrutiny.

✅ General Dos & 🚫 Don'ts ✨ DO: ✔️ Re-evaluate your relationships. Are they adding to your peace or disturbing it? 🤔 ✔️ Reconnect with your self-worth. Stop accepting the bare minimum. 💎 ✔️ Revisit past creative projects. That poetry book? That art piece? Bring it back! 🎨 ✔️ Double-check all major financial decisions. Read the fine print, bestie. 🔍 ✔️ Heal old wounds. Venus Rx loves to bring up past hurt for a reason—so you can finally release it. 🕊️

🚫 DON’T: ❌ Start a new relationship (unless you wanna relive it in the next Venus Rx 🫠). ❌ Get a drastic haircut, tattoo, or makeover. Regret is real. 😬 ❌ Make impulsive purchases—luxury splurges might feel good now, but your bank account will be side-eyeing you later. 💸 ❌ Text your ex. Just don’t. Please. Block if necessary. 🚷 ❌ Rush into commitments. This applies to love, business, and contracts. Venus Rx exposes what’s not solid. 🏗️

🌈 Final Cosmic Advice 🌈 This retrograde isn’t here to ruin your love life—it’s here to help you upgrade it. 🚀 Whether that means cutting ties with an unhealthy dynamic ✂️, falling back in love with yourself 💖, or simply learning to be patient in love and money, Venus Rx is a necessary cosmic lesson. Ride the wave 🌊, stay grounded 🌿, and most importantly—protect your peace at all costs. 🛡️

It feels like fate played its hand, leading me to you with promises of connection and understanding, but what I found instead was confusion and pain. Maybe I was never meant to feel the comfort of what I thought love was, but instead to learn the harder, colder truths about myself and others. Every moment with you, while filled with moments of warmth, was also riddled with lessons I didn’t want to learn and wounds I didn’t want to open.

I sometimes question whether I was drawn to you by my own desires or by something deeper, something that had nothing to do with happiness and everything to do with growth. If I’m being honest, I often wonder if this was meant to be a punishment—one I didn’t ask for but was handed anyway. There are times when the pain feels too much to bear, and I can’t help but think that maybe this was the universe’s way of showing me something I needed to see, something I couldn’t avoid.