Venus Retrograde in Aries in History

In episode 475 astrologers Chris Brennan and Nick Dagan Best discuss what every Venus retrograde in Aries period has coincided with in history over the past century, identifying patterns of 8-year repetitions in the past that are tied in with the present and future. The premise of this episode is that we have a Venus retrograde in Aries and Pisces coming up over the next few months, and it seems to coincide with a really important part of the year in March and April where we are expecting some major world events, so I wanted to look back in history and see if I could get a better sense for what these particular retrogrades in Aries have coincided with in the past. What Nick and I did in this episode is we started in 2025 and talked a little bit about what is already known or is clearly developing about the current Venus retrograde, and then after that we jumped back 8 years to 2017, which is the last time Venus went retrograde in Aries, and talked about major events that happened in that period. Then we went back another 8 years to 2009, when Venus was again retrograde in Aries, and so on. During the course of the episode we made it all the way back to 1905, which was the first time that Venus retrograded Aries in this cycle. Here is the full list of Venus retrograde in Aries years over the past century: 1905, 1913, 1921, 1929, 1937, 1945, 1953, 1961, 1969, 1977, 1985, 1993, 2001, 2009, 2017, 2025. By moving backwards in time we went retrograde ourselves, and started with a period that is more familiar, but then kept showing how there are these weird 8 year repetitions that connect events and themes across these different time periods. We ended up finding a LOT of really interesting stuff, and some major correlations that will end up being very relevant for news stories today. I feel like this episode really helps to build on and expand the Venus retrograde research that we did in 2023, and to deepen our understanding of Venus retrogrades in general by really drilling more deeply into this particular series. More importantly, it also helps to shed light on and provide further contextualization of some of the events that will happen in March and April of 2025. Show Notes Our research notes for this episode are available through our page on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/astrologypodcast Nick's Website https://www.nickdaganbestastrologer.com Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:52 Venus retrograde this year 00:10:09 8 year repetitions 00:17:15 2025 Venus retrograde repetitions 00:47:48 2017 Venus retrograde 00:57:02 2009 00:57:02 2009 01:10:11 2001 01:21:08 1993 01:49:35 1985 02:15:09 1977 02:55:05 1969 03:50:09 1961 04:49:19 1953 05:24:35 1945 05:43:27 1937 06:05:04 1929 06:16:07 1921 06:28:48 1913 06:44:12 1905 07:02:29 Reflections & conclusions 07:29:36 Credits Watch the Video Version of This Episode Watch the video version of this episode on Venus retrograde in Aries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvqRaAdzxHQ – Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 475 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download it as an MP3: