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Venus in Virgo 2025: Refine Discernment
On September 19, 07:22 AM —
On September 19, 2025, 08:39 AM EST, Venus leaves Leo and enters Virgo, where she is going to remain until October 13. In Virgo, Venus inspires us to make grounded financial choices and refine our discernment in our social and romantic lives. This transit challenges us to overcome self-criticism and choose to love ourselves as we are in the present moment.
Venus’s ingress into Virgo is especially significant for people born with personal placements in Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) and in Taurus and Libra, the signs ruled by Venus. This transit offers them an invitation to cultivate a more conscious and discerning approach to relationships. They have an opportunity to reflect on their values, raise their standards, and become more selective in how they invest their time, energy, and resources.
Venus from Leo to Virgo: Refine Discernment
Ruling both Taurus and Libra, Venus in Astrology has to do with our relationship style, our aesthetic taste, what we enjoy, and how we attract what we desire. Venus is connected to what we value, hence with what we invest in, and with our relationship to money, resources, and wealth. As Libra’s ruler, Venus governs the way we relate with others and how we create harmony and peace in our lives. Our relationships with others directly reflect our self-worth and how we relate with ourselves: as Taurus’s ruler, Venus is connected to issues of self-love and self-preservation as well as to our receptivity and relationship to pleasure.
During her time in Leo, Venus invited us to invest in our passion, in what makes us feel alive. This transit offered us an opportunity to reclaim our radiance, explore new creative outlets, and allow ourselves to be seen as we are, without masks or performance. Venus in Leo reminded us that to shine is our birthright, and that we shine the most when we are true to who we are.
Venus’s ingress into Virgo brings pragmatic energy into our romantic lives and inspires us to make grounded and cautious financial decisions. In Virgo, Venus invites us to pay attention to details we may have overlooked, review our budgets, and cut out unnecessary expenses. The focus now is on efficiency, functionality, and sustainability: during this transit, we are being asked to discern what nourishes us from what drains us or distracts us, and to make choices accordingly.
Venus in Virgo 2025: Love is an Act of Devotion
In Virgo, Venus teaches us that love is an act of devotion that can be expressed in practical and grounded ways. During this transit, we are reminded of the value of the daily acts of service that often go unnoticed and the daily effort of showing up for what and who we love. Venus in Virgo doesn’t ask for grand gestures but rather for consistent presence.
This transit highlights the importance of discernment in both financial and romantic matters. Venus in Virgo asks us to choose quality over quantity and invest our energy and resources in what feels meaningful for the long-term rather than pursuing immediate gratification. Relationships during this time benefit from attention to details and require a willingness to grow together by addressing, rather than ignoring, what doesn’t work optimally.
Loving Ourselves as We Are
While Venus is in Virgo, we have an opportunity to notice when we are tempted to be excessively critical or judgmental toward ourselves or others. While this transit supports self-analysis and self-reflection, focusing on dysfunctions, problems, and areas of improvement can lead us to unhealthy perfectionism. This can undermine our self-esteem and prevent us from loving ourselves as we are, appreciating what we have, or taking advantage of the opportunities we encounter.
Venus is traditionally considered to be in her fall in Virgo, since she’s exalted in the opposite sign of Pisces. During this transit, we are being challenged to acknowledge imperfections while still being compassionate and loving. If we constantly feel as if we are never good enough or perfect enough, or feel guilty for being the way we are, Venus in Virgo’s transit is a powerful time to explore how these feelings or beliefs originated and work on them.
Venus square Uranus, sextile Jupiter, and opposite Saturn
During her journey through Virgo, Venus will align with Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn. On September 20, Venus squares retrograde Uranus in Gemini.
Around this time, since the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo is also taking place, we can expect the unexpected. Shifts in our social and romantic connections may happen, new encounters are likely, and meeting unusual or unconventional people could inspire significant changes in our lives and relationships. We will feel a strong pull toward freedom and novelty and will experience friction between our desire for connection and predictability and the urge to be independent and autonomous. These days, sudden shifts in our finances and income are also possible.
On October 8, Venus forms a sextile with Jupiter in Cancer. This harmonious aspect between the two traditional benefics fuels our generosity and offers us supportive energy for both our romantic and financial lives. The Venus-Jupiter alignment expands our desire to give and receive love and invites us to trust that life is naturally abundant, that there is more than enough for everyone. This aspect reminds us that joy can be found in small daily moments of connection and underlines the importance of appreciating and being grateful for what we already have.
On October 11, Venus perfects an opposition with retrograde Saturn in Pisces. The Venus-Saturn opposition can bring up chronic insecurities, fears, and vulnerabilities that impact how we show up in relationships, our self-worth, as well as our relationship to money, wealth, and pleasure. This alignment offers us opportunities to work through feelings of unattractiveness, unworthiness, or being unlovable. Rather than reinforcing these old patterns, the Venus-Saturn opposition asks us to recognize them with compassion and begin dismantling the narratives we internalized in the past.
The Venus-Saturn opposition also invites us to clarify what is truly worth investing our time, resources, and energy in. Even though this alignment can bring up feelings of scarcity and lack, it can ultimately help us strengthen our commitment to the relationships and pursuits that matter the most and deepen our ability to choose with maturity and discernment.
