Venus and Mercury Retrogrades 2025

Venus, the goddess of love, began her retrograde cycle from the 2nd March 2025.  Mercury will also go retrograde on 15th March 2025.  Both planets will retrograde in the sign of Aries, then re-enter into Pisces.  What struck me instantly was that back in August 2023, we also had an overlap of Venus and Mercury retrograde, with Venus in Leo and Mercury in Virgo.  The cycle previous to that in June 2020 also had the same overlap, with Venus in Gemini and Mercury in Cancer.

June 2020, August/Sept 2023 and March/April 2025

I began to trace back to each of these cycles where there was an overlap between Mercury and Venus.  I quickly identified a pattern:  in matters of love or money-related matters (Venus), speak up for oneself (Mercury).

June 2020

With Venus in Gemini and Mercury in Cancer, I was experiencing some great difficulties in the workplace.  On hindsight, if I had voiced out my feelings (Mercury in Cancer) in accordance with my personal values (Venus) in the simplest way (in Gemini), the matter would have been solved quickly and with minimal mess.  Instead, I overthought into the matter and dragged the problem for way too long.  I avoided confrontation and just simply couldn't find a way out of the emotional maze that I had successfully trapped myself in.  

August/September 2023

With Venus in Leo and Mercury in Virgo, this time, still related to work, I repeated my previous mistake.  Again, the matter would have been solved quickly if I had put aside my emotional brain, just long enough to voice out the information I had collected and analysed (Mercury in Virgo), which was also in accordance with my personal values (Venus) in a loud and direct way (in Leo).  Instead, I communicated with defeat, convinced that my opinion would not be heard.  Who would listen to someone who is not fighting for their own cause? 

March/April 2025

With Venus in Aries, re-ingress into Pisces, and Mercury, also in Aries, re-ingress into Pisces, I immediately thought, 'Wait a minute, this seems so familiar...'.  I believe the script this time, which I need to play out, is to display my fighting spirits with flair.  I need to be outspoken (Mercury in Aries), in matters dear to my heart (Venus) in a bold and assertive way (in Aries).  This time, there is another layer to the mix as Aries will move back into Pisces.  I also need to go with the flow and to respect the law of karma.  What goes around comes around.  Not all battles can be won.  Learn from them, extract the lessons within, work on the spiritual aspects with compassion.  Identify and acknowledge your role and responsibilities in your current situation.  Rise above victim mentality and grab your power back!

What do you need to learn from the current Venus Mercury retrograde overlap?