♀ Free Venus Return Calculator: Every Pass, Direct and Retrograde

Umbriel's free Venus return calculator finds the exact dates Venus comes back to the degree it held at your birth, about once a year as seen from Earth.

A Venus return is Venus arriving back at the degree of the zodiac it occupied when you were born. Venus takes 224.7 days to go round the Sun, but you are watching from Earth, which is moving too, and Venus never strays more than about 47 degrees from the Sun in our sky. Read as a restart for what you value, who and how you love, and how you spend money, attention and time, in the part of the chart natal Venus occupies. It is a reflective reading, not a forecast.

Because Venus stays within about 47 degrees of the Sun, its returns come in the months when the Sun is within that distance of your natal Venus degree, which is why there is roughly one a year.

The detail a single date leaves out is that the return is not always one moment. Venus retrogrades, so it can cross your degree, back over it, and cross a third time: three exact passes, and every one of them is exact. Umbriel lists every crossing in the window it searches, labels each direct or retrograde, and says which one the return is dated from. Many return calculators give one date; this page does not say what any particular one does, because we have not audited them. It says what Umbriel does and why one date can be too little.

• Venus's own lap of the Sun is 224.7 days, but that is the lap Umbriel does not use here.
• What Umbriel computes: the return to your tropical zodiac degree as seen from Earth, found by scanning the sky for every crossing of that degree.
• Measured on Umbriel's own engine across 36 natal degrees: 493 complete Venus returns, consecutive returns of one degree 292 to 411 days apart, 366 days on average.
• 2 in every 100 of those returns had more than one exact pass; the longest ran 88 days from first pass to last.

Take someone born on 8 September 1978 at 09:30 UT. This is an invented birth, not anyone's chart. Their natal Venus is at 1.05° Scorpio. Searching from 1 June 2026 to 1 September 2027, Umbriel finds one complete Venus return with 3 exact passes:

The return is dated from the first pass, 11 September 2026, 23:39 UT, but Venus crosses the same degree again going backwards on 23 October 2026, 15:29 UT and a third time going forwards on 5 December 2026, 22:53 UT. From first pass to last is 85 days. A calculator that printed only the first date would leave out the other two exact hits.

This tool finds the moments Venus comes back to the tropical longitude it held at your birth. Your natal Venus is computed first, as a tropical longitude, even if your chart is set to sidereal, so the dates are never shifted by the ayanamsa. Umbriel then scans forward from today for 1.2 years (1.2 times Venus's geocentric period of one year in the code), sampling Venus's position in steps of at most 3.1 days. Wherever the position crosses your natal degree it halves the interval 40 times to pin the moment. Crossings are grouped into one return when they fall within a quarter of a period of each other (about 91 days), because Venus can retrograde back over the degree and cross it three times. The table lists each return dated from its first pass, every pass with its date and time, and marks a return as partial if a pass falls outside the window searched. The period is geocentric, not orbital: seen from Earth, Venus goes round the zodiac about once a year alongside the Sun, so 224.7 days, its lap of the Sun, is not used. Venus's position comes from compact orbital elements (Kepler's equation solved for the moment asked), not from the VSOP87D series the outer planets use, so it is less precise on paper than Jupiter's; the accuracy page quotes under 0.2 degrees against published ingress dates, and for return dates the page records a comparison with NASA/JPL Horizons. The dates depend on your birth moment only through your natal Venus, but the house it is in needs a birth time. The table shows the next return and the ones after it that fall in the window, not every return since birth.

On 12 October 2026 Umbriel's Venus return dates were compared with NASA/JPL Horizons (DE441, apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude of date): the body's position at the birth moment gave the target degree, a daily then hourly table from Horizons located every crossing, and each was set beside the engine's. For 3 invented births that was 11 exact passes, and the largest difference was 21 minutes. What was not checked: returns before 2005 or after 2055, charts cast for the return moment (houses and angles), any birth place, and the sidereal zodiac (return dates are always tropical). Other planets' returns have their own checks and are not covered by this one.