Venus direct in Aries 2025: What it means for your zodiac sign

At long last, on April 30, Venus, our planet of attraction, attachment and aesthetics, is trading the paint-splattered nightgown of Pisces for the flaming codpiece of Aries.Venus will stick around in these hellfires until June 6.Named for the Roman goddess of love and fertility, Venus is the fine, divine feminine counterpart to aggro jock strap warlord Mars.According to myth, Venus was born from sea foam and the severed schlong of Uranus, emerging fully formed and tits out in a scallop shell — with pleasure as her governing principle.Etymologically, Venus derives from the Latin word for desire, and in kind, the planet informs both what we’re drawn to and who and what we attract.Venus is, by default, the softer, subtler, feminine counterpart to masculine Mars, but in Aries, a Mars-ruled sign, Venus is a hot-blooded lover and a reckless spender, easily seduced by the new and the novel, unafraid of being direct about what it wants or shameless about getting it.This Venus pursues rather than suggests.It’s “get over here” versus “come hither,” declared conquest over polite courting.It dares to fail and it pushes, relentlessly and sometimes gracelessly — but always forward.

 Bored by the vague, the tepid, and/or the flaccid, Venus in Aries worships at the altar of fun and drinks mightily from the cup of cortisol.As Aries rules the head, the blood, and our sense of vitality, it is avowed first and foremost to live full, free and without apology.This transit makes us hungry for action and fresh experiences but you can calibrate the heat and mitigate the collateral damage by channeling the highest expressions of Venus in Aries; directness, playfullness and a willingness to keep on keeping on while eschewing some of the less stellar qualities; impatience, petulance and a tendency to burn through money, people, patience and stop signs with astounding speed.Taking it back to the better angels, there’s a spirit of unrefined and unrestrained fun when Ven...