Venus Sign Calculator

Enter your birthday to find your Venus sign, down to the degree.

Your Venus sign is the zodiac sign the planet Venus was in when you were born. Astrologers read it as how you love, what you find beautiful and what you value. It is often different from your Sun sign, though never more than two signs away. To find it, you only need your date of birth.

How the calculator works

The calculator works out where Venus appeared from Earth, against the zodiac, at the moment you were born. It reports the sign, the degree, the dates Venus entered and left that sign, and whether Venus was moving forward or backward.

We compared our Venus positions with values from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at 10 dates between 1950 and 2040. The largest gap was 4.8 arcseconds, which Venus covers in about 2 minutes. The figures are on the method page.

Why Venus is never far from your Sun sign

Venus orbits closer to the Sun than Earth does. Seen from here it swings out to one side of the Sun, then back and out to the other, and never gets further than 47.2 degrees of the zodiac from it. A sign is 30 degrees wide, so your Venus sign is either your Sun sign or one of the two signs on either side.

Morning star and evening star

When Venus is ahead of the Sun in the zodiac, it sets after the Sun and shines in the west at dusk: an evening star. When it is behind the Sun, it rises first and shines in the east before dawn: a morning star. Within about 10 degrees of the Sun it is hard or impossible to pick out of the glare. The calculator tells you which applied on your birthday. Some astrologers read a morning-star Venus as more impulsive in love and an evening-star Venus as more considered.

Venus retrograde

About every 19 months, Venus passes between Earth and the Sun. For 41 to 43 days around that passage it appears to move backward through the zodiac. This is Venus retrograde. Venus spends less of its time retrograde than any other planet: 7.2% of days between 1930 and 2040, so roughly one person in 14 is born with it.

A retrograde is also why Venus can linger. It usually crosses a sign in about 25 days, but when it turns around inside one it can stay far longer. The longest stay between 1930 and 2040 was 126 days in Gemini, from April 3, 2012 to August 7, 2012.

A worked example

Take someone born on June 15, 1995. Venus was at 5°51′ Gemini that day, moving forward. It had entered Gemini on June 10, 1995 and left on July 5, 1995, so everyone born between those dates has Venus in Gemini. That is the same sign as the Sun. Venus stood 18 degrees behind the Sun, which made it a morning star, rising before the Sun.

Venus keeps an eight-year rhythm: after eight years it is back in almost the same place on the same date. On June 15, 2003 it was at 6°31′ Gemini, 0.7 degrees from where it stood in 1995. Someone born exactly eight years before or after you usually shares your Venus sign.

Venus sign dates for 2026 and 2027

These are the dates Venus enters and leaves each sign, in Universal Time. A sign change close to midnight can fall on the neighbouring date where you live.

Venus retrograde dates, 1930 to 2040

Each row runs from the day Venus turned retrograde to the day it turned direct again. If your birthday falls between the two, you were born with Venus retrograde. The last column gives the stretch of the zodiac Venus backed through. Dates are in Universal Time.

Read down the last column and a pattern shows. Every fifth retrograde returns to the same part of the zodiac, eight years later and about two degrees earlier. Five retrogrades in eight years mark out a five-pointed figure around the zodiac, often called the Venus star or the rose of Venus.

What each Venus sign means

These are the traditional readings of Venus by sign.

Where Venus is strong and weak

Traditional astrology ranks how comfortable a planet is in each sign. For Venus the ranking runs as follows.

Reviewed by Natal Points. Tables and figures on this page were calculated in October 2026.