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The Astrology Podcast

Venus and Mars Retrogrades as the Unfolding of a Sequence of Events

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

In episode 493 I interview some patrons and students talk about how the recent Venus and Mars retrograde periods went for them, and to demonstrate a principle I discovered about how retrogrades can describe the unfolding of a sequence of events over an extended period of time. One of my unique perspectives on Venus and Mars retrogrades is that they are not just the period when the planet is moving backwards, but instead represent an extended stay in one or two signs of the zodiac. This long transit often coincides with the unfolding of a sequence of events over several months, frequently centered on the topics of the whole sign houses the retrograde occupies. Now that the extended retrograde period ranges have been completed this month, with Venus finally departing from its retrograde sign of Aries and Mars departing from its retrograde sign of Leo, I wanted to document and demonstrate this principle by sharing some real-life stories. I'm joined by several students from my courses and patrons of the podcast who share their experiences of how these transits played out in their lives. In particular we explore three specific ways that I have identified about how retrogrades can manifest: Retrogrades that represent the unfolding of a sequence of events that play out over an extended period of time. Retrogrades that cross a sign boundary and connect two sets of topics across the whole sign houses involved. When Venus and Mars are retrograde in different signs and the topics of both houses they are in become relevant.   Through these discussions, we see clear examples of how these extended retrograde periods timed significant life stories, from relationship changes and career shifts to health matters and dealing with family. This episode serves as a final case study to substantiate the theoretical framework I outlined in previous forecasts, providing concrete examples to help astrologers learn how to apply this concept to future retrogrades. Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction & premise 00:09:36 Three retrograde types 00:19:04 Kitt 00:38:34 Abby 00:49:53 Baykan 01:00:51 Emily 01:16:31 Summer 01:32:15 Christine 02:03:08 Dinah-Maria 02:24:55 Erin 02:26:31 Denese 02:48:15 Concluding remarks 03:02:13 Credits Watch the Video Version of This Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS4YLeg4xc - Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download it as an MP3:

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0:00.0

Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to The Astrology podcast.

0:03.6

In this episode, I'm going to be talking about the recent Venus and Mars retrograde periods that are coming to an end at this point and doing a retrospective on how those worked out by talking to some patrons of the astrology podcast as well as some students of my Hellenistic astrology course in order to share some stories about the specific ways that these transits unfolded over the course of the past several months.

0:29.6

All right. So the premise of this episode and the reason that I'm doing that this is it's now June of what 2025 it's June 7th 2025 in the past few days

0:42.9

Venus has finally departed from Taurus so that it's finally left the sign that it originally went

0:49.4

retrograde in which was Aries ending a several month-month retrograde period, and additionally, Mars next week, is getting ready to move into Virgo.

1:00.8

And once it departs from Leo, it's going to leave the sign that it originally went retrograde in back in December.

1:08.4

So part of the reason I'm doing this episode is something I mentioned on the

1:14.1

forecast episode, which is that I have a unique definition and perspective on, especially

1:23.2

Venus and Mars retrograde periods that I developed over the course of the past, I don't know,

1:29.4

10 or 20 years of doing astrology.

1:32.6

And part of it comes from integrating some Hellenistic techniques, like basic concepts like

1:38.4

whole sign houses, as well as whole sign aspects, in addition to degree-based aspects and paying attention to the degrees of the angles.

1:49.5

And one of the things that I realized over the years is that Venus and Mars retrograde periods are not just restricted to the time periods in which the planets actually slow down

2:06.4

and station retrograde and start moving backwards in the order of signs and in the order of degrees.

2:13.2

But so that at its most strict sense is the Venus and Mars retrograde periods, is those periods

2:19.2

in time where they're moving backwards through the zodiac rather than forwards.

2:23.2

But what I realized over the years, many years of watching this in the charts of clients and

2:28.0

celebrities and my personal charts is that the retrograde, in addition to being experienced is that period of time,

2:37.2

that anomalous period of time when those two planets are moving backwards and against the

2:43.2

order of the zodiac and against the order in which all the other planets normally move,

2:49.6

it's not just that, but it's also a period where those

2:54.6

two planets or each planet that's retrograde spends an extended period of time in one or two

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