vakri Shukra 2028
Venus Retrograde 2028: Dates, Signs and Stations
One window opening in 2028 · 43 days between stations · Taurus
Venus turns retrograde once in 2028, on 11 May 2028, and turns direct again on 23 June 2028. Counting only the calendar days of 2028, Venus is retrograde on 44 of them.
11 May to 23 June, in Taurus
Venus stations retrograde on 11 May 2028 at 25°26′ Taurus, in Mrigashira, and stations direct on 23 June 2028 at 8°56′ Taurus, in Krittika. Between the two stations it travels back 16.5° of the zodiac over 43 days.
25°26′ Taurus, the 11 May station, is in Mrigashira pada 1, the Leo navamsa. 8°56′ Taurus, the 23 June station, is in Krittika pada 4, the Pisces navamsa. The arc between them spans 6 padas, from Krittika pada 4 up to Mrigashira pada 1, and Venus crosses every degree of it three times: forward before 11 May, backward until 23 June, and forward again afterwards. Venus is in its own sign in Taurus.
The whole 16.5° lies inside Taurus, so for the 11 May retrograde of 2028 there is no sign change to date: Venus in Taurus covers all 43 days.
Inside the window Venus also backs across two nakshatra boundaries: into Rohini on 21 May 2028 and into Krittika on 15 June 2028.
Mercury on 25 May 2028 at 21° Taurus, the Sun on 1 June 2028 at 17° Taurus and Mars on 14 June 2028 at 10° Taurus are the conjunctions the table records for Venus during these 43 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 586 days after the previous Venus retrograde began on 3 October 2026, and 544 days after that one ended.
How 2028 Compares With Venus’s Other Windows
Across the 5 Venus retrogrades the site computes from 2024 to 2031, a window lasts 41 to 43 days between stations and retraces 15.4° to 16.5°. The 2028 window, at 43 days and 16.5°, is the longest of them by length and the widest by arc.
Every date here is a day, never a time. A planet at a station is barely moving, so the minute it turns is the least stable figure in the table; for Venus in 2028 the day is what two careful sources will agree on.
More on Venus’s Retrogrades
Every Venus window from 2024 to 2031 is tabulated on the Venus retrograde page, including 2029. All five planets in 2028 are on the 2028 retrograde calendar. To see whether Venus is retrograde on a given day, use the retrograde checker; for how a retrograde graha is read in a birth chart, see retrograde planets explained and astrology for beginners. In Hindi: शुक्र वक्री 2028.