Venus Retrograde 2026: Dates, Signs and Stations

3 October to 14 November, in Libra and Virgo

Venus stations retrograde on 3 October 2026 at 14°16′ Libra, in Swati, and stations direct on 14 November 2026 at 28°37′ Virgo, in Chitra. Between the two stations it travels back 15.6° of the zodiac over 42 days.

14°16′ Libra, the 3 October station, is in Swati pada 3, the Aquarius navamsa. 28°37′ Virgo, the 14 November station, is in Chitra pada 2, the Virgo navamsa. The arc between them spans 6 padas, from Chitra pada 2 up to Swati pada 3, and Venus crosses every degree of it three times: forward before 3 October, backward until 14 November, and forward again afterwards. Venus is in its own sign in Libra and debilitated in Virgo.

That arc crosses a sign boundary, so the 3 October retrograde of 2026 begins in Libra and ends in Virgo. The DE421 table puts Venus’s backward re-entry into Virgo on 6 November 2026, 34 days after it turned. Read Venus in Virgo for that stretch, not Venus in Libra.

Inside the window Venus also backs across a nakshatra boundary: into Chitra on 24 October 2026.

Mercury on 7 October 2026 at 13° Libra and the Sun on 24 October 2026 at 6° Libra are the conjunctions the table records for Venus during these 42 days. The meeting with the Sun is the inferior conjunction, when Venus passes between the Earth and the Sun, and it is the reason this retrograde happens when it does.

It begins 580 days after the previous Venus retrograde began on 2 March 2025, and 538 days after that one ended.