Venus in Aries 2025: Return of the Morning Star and the War for Value
A Deep Dive into Desire, Power, and the Sacred Battle for Self-Worth
If you enjoy this content, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share it! Leave me a comment telling me how you see the transits playing out. Want to support my work directly? Tip me on Venmo: @jennydeeastrology.
Hey, Beautiful—
You can feel it in the air. Something new is appearing, but it's not quite in sight yet. There's movement happening, but it's just out of view. Your senses understand it before your mind can catch up. But you want to act now anyway.
As Venus in Aries 2025 begins again this spring, her cycle mirrors Inanna's descent—and her rise. She's retracing the steps she took back in early February. This time, she's more surefooted and aware. She's stronger and wiser, and this time she knows what to expect.
Later in this article, you’ll find extended horoscopes and a ritual toolkit to help you move with righteousness during this transit, not just survive it. From April 30 to May 20, Venus walks back into battle—with Mars and the Sun behind her—and she has no intention of backing down. This astrology forecast will help guide you through it.
If you missed the moment when the tide turned—when the coup began in silence—go read Aries Eclipse 2025: The Quiet Coup. That was the ignition. This is the consequence.
To understand Venus, you must understand her retrograde. And to understand Venus Retrograde, you must understand Inanna.
Inanna’s Descent: A Myth for This Moment
Inanna was the Sumerian Queen of Heaven, a major goddess in the Sumerian pantheon, one of the most prominent deities of ancient Mesopotamia. She was later blended with the Akkadian and Babylonian goddess Ishtar, who inherited many of her attributes but with cultural and political shifts layered in.
Inanna’s myth of descent into the underworld is one of the oldest recorded religious texts, originating from Sumerian sources dated around 1900–1800 BCE. She was associated with love, war, fertility, beauty, political power, and justice—essentially a prototype of Venus/Aphrodite, but with much more strength and terror included.
Sovereign and radiant, Inanna descended into the underworld to witness her sister Ereshkigal’s grief after the death of her husband. To pass into the Underworld, Inanna had to cross seven gates. At each, she was stripped of her royal power—her crown, her jewels, her robes—until she stood naked before her sister.
Ereshkigal, consumed by sorrow and rage, saw Inanna not as comfort but as a threat. She lashed out, killing her sister and hanging her body on a hook.
But Inanna had prepared. Before her descent, she instructed her loyal servant, Ninshubur, to call for help if she didn’t return in three days. Ninshubur told the god Enki what happened, and he responded by creating two beings—Kurgarra and Galatur—from the dirt under his fingernails. Kurgarra and Galatur were androgynous and didn’t fit neatly into any of the categories established by the Underworld, and so they were able to access it undetected.
Kurgarra and Galatur reached Ereshkigal but did not plead or make demands for Inanna’s body. Instead, they realized that Ereshkigal was overcome with grief, and so they compassionately sat with her and listened. They echoed and mirrored her pain. Moved by their empathy, Ereshkigal relented and released Inanna’s body. The shapeshifters sprinkled Inanna's body with the food and water of life, resurrecting her and rescuing her from the Underworld.
The lessons of Inanna’s resurrection did not leave her unchanged. Her reanimation was not a gift—it was an initiation. She came back to Heaven knowing who she was without her royal adornments. Her clarity and understanding were earned. Her standards had changed.
She returned not to please—but to rule with empathy. As Venus in Aries reclaims her authority this season, she echoes Inanna’s return with sacred clarity.
🌀 For how this moment ties into the collective unraveling of power, read Mars-Pluto Opposition 2025: U.S. Astrology and the Collapse of Political Control. It’s not just a personal shift—it’s a national one.
The Venusian Archetype in Aries
Inanna didn’t intentionally descend to be destroyed. She went to comfort her sister’s grief—and came back changed by the compassion she learned in the process. That’s the Venus archetype at its rawest: the goddess of desire stripped bare, returned with nothing but priorities, and unwilling to tolerate harm in places where understanding is better suited.
Venus in Aries carries that energy into the sky. This is not a Venus of compromise. This Venus doesn’t seduce; she brawls. She doesn’t wait to be chosen—she names what she wants and goes to get it herself. In Aries, Venus doesn't ask questions. She issues terms and expects everyone to meet them.
But let’s be clear: a Mars-ruled Venus isn’t reckless—she’s purposeful. Her boldness comes from clarity. Her so-called temper is strategy. She’s not reactive for the sake of noise—she’s reacting because no one listened when she asked nicely. The ancients may have found her methods unfeminine, but Venus in Aries isn’t here to play by those rules.
During her Venus retrograde cycle in 2025, she got confused about who she was, so she backtracked to Pisces and remembered her Queendom. She sorted through the softness and returned, knowing exactly who she was and what she wanted. Now, as she heads back into Aries, she’s not afraid to act like it.
Don't forget: No matter what sign Venus is in, her main goal is to create equality and comfort for all. The sign just tells us how she does it.
She doesn’t care if it makes others uncomfortable. She’s not trying to maintain appearances. She’s trying to get free—and if burning the world to the ground is the only way to end this nonsense, she’ll strike the match herself. She doesn’t need coaching or calming; she needs backup.
What she demands is not comfort—it’s honesty. And what she burns away are the alliances, masks, and compromises that dilute it. If one part of the system is broken—if one person is disrespected, dismissed, or devalued—Venus in Aries feels it in her bones. And she doesn’t negotiate. She acts.
📚 Want a deeper look at how Venus retrograde shaped this moment—both personally and politically? Read Libra Full Moon 2025: The Price of Keeping the Peace. It sets the emotional stakes for everything Venus in Aries is now answering to.
What It Means to Be the Morning Star
Venus is in her Morning Star phase, appearing ahead of the Sun in the early morning sky. This is her re-emergence from the underworld—not theoretical or symbolic, but cosmic and visible. This is the part of her cycle where she stops reflecting and starts commanding.
Morning Star Venus shows up with an attitude. She has knowledge and experience, and momentum—and she expects follow-through. Like Inanna rising from the underworld with new terms and sharper boundaries, Venus in this phase is not here to negotiate. She's had enough of the imbalance, and she's taking it upon herself to restore it.
The time for introspection has concluded. The consequences of the choices that were made in the dark quiet of Venus' Evening Star phase will now be handed out.
🔒 You’ve just met Venus as Morning Star. Now it’s time to act like her.
Subscribe to unlock the Rising Sign horoscopes, sacred ritual, and your personalized strategy for navigating this Venus–Mars–Sun rulership cycle.
This isn’t fortune-telling. This is pattern recognition for liberation.
🔥 The Rulership Chain: Mars in Leo, Sun in Taurus
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Jenny Dee Astrology to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.