Venus governs love, beauty & pleasure. A Venus transit is its movement through the sidereal zodiac — each sign change, retrograde and combustion colours how love, beauty & pleasure plays out for everyone. Below are Venus's 17 moves in 2026; pick another year to the right.
| Date | Planet | Transit | Rāśi (sign) | Nakshatra · pada | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | ||||||
| Tue13Jan | Venus | Sign change | ♐︎ Sagittarius♑︎ Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha · 2 | ☀ Combust | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Sagittarius for Capricorn. |
| February | ||||||
| Fri6Feb | Venus | Sign change | ♑︎ Capricorn♒︎ Aquarius | Dhanishtha · 3 | ☀ Combust | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Capricorn for Aquarius. |
| Tue17Feb | Venus | Combust clears | Aquarius | Shatabhisha · 3 | — | Venus steps clear of the Sun — its light, and its significations, return. |
| March | ||||||
| Mon2Mar | Venus | Sign change | ♒︎ Aquarius♓︎ Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada · 4 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Aquarius for Pisces. |
| Thu26Mar | Venus | Sign change | ♓︎ Pisces♈︎ Aries | Ashwini · 1 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Pisces for Aries. |
| April | ||||||
| Sun19Apr | Venus | Sign change | ♈︎ Aries♉︎ Taurus | Krittika · 2 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Aries for Taurus. |
| May | ||||||
| Thu14May | Venus | Sign change | ♉︎ Taurus♊︎ Gemini | Mrigashira · 3 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Taurus for Gemini. |
| June | ||||||
| Mon8Jun | Venus | Sign change | ♊︎ Gemini♋︎ Cancer | Punarvasu · 4 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Gemini for Cancer. |
| July | ||||||
| Sat4Jul | Venus | Sign change | ♋︎ Cancer♌︎ Leo | Magha · 1 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Cancer for Leo. |
| August | ||||||
| Sat1Aug | Venus | Sign change | ♌︎ Leo♍︎ Virgo | Uttara Phalguni · 2 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Leo for Virgo. |
| September | ||||||
| Wed2Sep | Venus | Sign change | ♍︎ Virgo♎︎ Libra | Chitra · 3 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Virgo for Libra. |
| October | ||||||
| Sat3Oct | Venus | Retrograde | Libra | Swati · 3 | ℞ Retro | Venus turns retrograde — a spell to revisit and refine love, beauty & pleasure, not to begin. |
| Sun18Oct | Venus | Combust begins | Libra | Swati · 2 | ℞ Retro☀ Combust | Venus slips into the Sun's glare — its themes dim and turn erratic for a while. |
| Fri30Oct | Venus | Combust clears | Libra | Chitra · 3 | ℞ Retro | Venus steps clear of the Sun — its light, and its significations, return. |
| November | ||||||
| Fri6Nov | Venus | Sign change | ♎︎ Libra♍︎ Virgo | Chitra · 2 | ℞ Retro | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Libra for Virgo. |
| Sat14Nov | Venus | Direct | Virgo | Chitra · 2 | — | Venus turns direct — love, beauty & pleasure picks the thread back up and moves forward. |
| Sun22Nov | Venus | Sign change | ♍︎ Virgo♎︎ Libra | Chitra · 3 | — | A fresh chapter for love, beauty & pleasure — Venus leaves Virgo for Libra. |
Every ingress (from → to), retrograde/direct station and combustion begin/end — computed from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The Status column carries a planet's ongoing retrograde / combustion until it changes. Dates are IST and may shift a day for your timezone.
The live transit board shows where every planet — the Moon included — is right now, on a gochar chart, and lets you step to any month or year.
Open the live transit board →It's Venus moving from one rāśi (and nakshatra) to the next in the sky. Because Venus rules love, beauty & pleasure, its transits time shifts in those areas for everyone — sharpened when it stations retrograde or direct, or moves in and out of the Sun's combustion.
A transit is where a planet is in the sky at a given time, as opposed to where it was at your birth. Vedic astrology reads these moving positions — which sign and nakshatra each graha occupies, and whether it is retrograde or combust — to time the texture of a period.
A planet stays retrograde from its retrograde station until its direct station, and combust while it is within a few degrees of the Sun. The Status column flags that ongoing state on every event in between — so a sign change that happens while a planet is still retrograde is marked as such.
Positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides. The eight non-Moon grahas are listed (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu); the Moon changes sign every ~2¼ days, so it is shown on the live board instead.