What Is My Venus Sign? Vedic Dates by Birth Year 1950–2050

Your Venus sign is the sign Venus occupied at the moment you were born. For most birthdays the date alone settles it, because Venus moves through a sign in about 25 days; only a birth on the day Venus changes sign needs the clock time as well. The table further down gives, for every year from 1950 to 2050, the sign Venus was in on 1 January and each sign it entered after that, with the date in Indian Standard Time. Find your birth year, find the last entry on or before your birthday, and that is the sign.

These are Vedic, sidereal signs (Shukra’s rashi), measured with the Lahiri ayanamsa. A western, tropical Venus sign is found by adding the ayanamsa, which across these years runs from about 23.1° to 24.6°. That is less than one sign, so the western Venus sign is always either the same as the Vedic one or the next sign along, never two away. As this is published Venus is in sidereal Libra; it moves back into Virgo on 6 November 2026 while retrograde and re-enters Libra on 22 November 2026.

A Worked Example: 15 August 1990

In the 1990 row, Venus enters Cancer between 8 August and 9 August, and the next entry is Leo on 2 September. A birth on 15 August 1990 therefore has Venus in Cancer, whatever the hour. The Cancer entry itself is printed as two dates because it fell close to midnight IST; a birth on either of those two days is the case where only the degree of Venus at the birth time can decide.

Why Venus Is Never Far From Your Sun Sign

Venus’s orbit lies inside the Earth’s, so seen from here it always appears in the same part of the sky as the Sun, which ties its sign to the Sun’s. Reading both at noon IST on each of the 36,890 days from 1950 to 2050, in Vedic signs:

On no day in the century is Venus three or more signs from the Sun. So if you know your Vedic Sun sign, your Venus sign is one of five, and most often the sign just before or just after it. The Vedic Sun sign dates page gives the Sun’s entries for the same years.

The Eight-Year Repeat

Venus comes back to nearly the same place against the stars on nearly the same calendar date every eight years. Comparing each date with the same date eight years earlier, Venus is in the same sign on 97.5% of days. One year apart the figure is 6.7%, and sixteen years apart it is still 95%. In practice the row for a birth year is almost a copy of the row eight years before it, with its entry dates close to the ones eight years earlier.

The repeat is not exact, and over several decades it drifts. The clearest place to see that is in the long stays below.

Four-Month Stays and Week-Long Ones

Venus enters between 10 and 15 signs in a calendar year and usually stays in each for three to five weeks. About every nineteen months it turns retrograde, and when the whole retrograde loop falls inside one sign, the stay stretches to about four months. The century holds 29 stays of 120 days or more, and they come in sets eight years apart:

Several series run side by side, and each keeps to one sign for a few decades before the repeat drifts out of it: Leo from 1951 to 1975, Taurus from 2012 to 2044. The longest stay is 126 days in Taurus. The site’s retrograde table covers 2024 to 2031, and it confirms the cause for the three long stays in those years (Pisces in 2025, Taurus in 2028 and Sagittarius in 2029–30): each retrograde window lies wholly within the sign.

The opposite happens when a retrograde loop straddles a boundary. Venus then dips back into the previous sign for anything from a few days to a little over two weeks: the shortest stay of the century is Sagittarius from 7 February to 14 February 1982, about 7 days, and the next is Cancer from 11 September to 20 September 1983. The Virgo visit of 6 November to 22 November 2026 is one of these short dips. Births in a dip have a Venus sign that a rough “Venus is in X this month” list would miss. The how long each planet stays in a sign page has the stays of 2026 to 2028 for every graha.

Venus Sign by Year, 1950 to 2050

Dates are IST. “(R)” marks an entry Venus makes while moving backward, into the sign it had just left. Where two dates are joined by a dash, the entry falls so near midnight that the day is not certain. The 101 rows hold 1,277 entries; the generator that produced them reproduced all 150 sign entries of the site’s 2026–2028 ingress table to the minute, Venus’s among them.

Born on the Day Venus Changed Sign

Over these 101 years Venus changes sign on 1,277 dates, and 36 of those changes fall near enough to midnight to be printed as a span. On any of those dates the hour of birth decides, and on the spans the minute can. What settles it is the sidereal longitude of Venus at the birth time. The Janam Kundli report prints the sign and degree of Venus and the other six grahas it computes (it does not place Rahu and Ketu) for the time you enter; the free kundli gives the lagna, Moon and Mars, but not Venus. An almanac on a different ayanamsa moves every one of these boundaries, by a day or more.

Venus in Each Sign: Dignity, Aspects and Padas

This page only finds the sign. The dignity Venus has in each sign, the sign it aspects from there and the nakshatra padas it crosses are on the twelve placement pages: Venus in Aries, Venus in Taurus, Venus in Gemini, Venus in Cancer, Venus in Leo, Venus in Virgo, Venus in Libra, Venus in Scorpio, Venus in Sagittarius, Venus in Capricorn, Venus in Aquarius and Venus in Pisces. The graha itself is on the Shukra page, and the 2027 entries, with their times, are on Venus transit 2027 dates.

What This Page Does Not Give

No clock time for any entry: the table is a list of dates. No western sign dates beyond the one-sign rule above. Nothing about what a Venus sign is supposed to mean for a person, for love or for anything else; the placement pages report the texts. Only the Lahiri ayanamsa is used.

In Brief

• Find it: your birth-year row, the last entry on or before your birthday
• Close to the Sun: Venus is in the Sun’s sign on 23.6% of days, one sign either side on 58.5%, two signs either side on 17.9%, never further
• Every eight years: the same sign on the same date on 97.5% of days
• Long stays: 29 stays of 120 days or more in the century, the longest 126 days in Taurus
• Change days: 1,277 dates where the birth time decides