Venus is the second planet away from the Sun. It is the "evening star' and our "morning star" depending upon what time of year and orbit she is in, we either see her as a bright, shining diamond in our sky on one horizon or another.

Aphrodite or Venus, was the Greek goddess of love, pleasure, and all things about relationships, harmony, music, the arts and the beautiful things we have in our world. She is about fragrance, food, taste, texture and our five senses. Our sexuality, our passion for life, our procreative and creative expressions, are come from her symbolically speaking.

From an astrological association with this myth and goddess, the planet is about beauty, harmony with yourself and others (this means your co-workers, your spouse, your friends, even strangers you meet in the grocery story, for instance), as well as our own ability to be social, interactive, respectful, kind, courteous and refined. It is also about one's artistic ability, ranging from jewelry to clothes, to house decorating to even buying just the 'right' car because it looks 'pretty' or sleek or beautiful to us.

Unfortunately, Venus retrograde seems to go in 'backward' motion--but that is because Earth, in its larger orbit is by-passing Venus. And when that occurs, it looks like Venus is going backwards--its not, really, but when you consider you have two huge planetary bodies passing one another like two fast-moving cars on a solar freeway; you do get energy 'turbulence' out of it that will affect everything and everyone on this planet to some intensity.