Venus retrogrades are an intimate excavation of desire. In Scorpio and Libra, even more so. What do I want to pour my heart into? Do I desire what I have? Will it be taken away from me at any moment? Do I desire too much? Can I continue pursuing something I don’t want or doesn’t want me? What’s the chasm in between? Every eighteen months we claw our insides out until our nails are bloody with an instinctual, compulsive hunger for answers to these cyclical questions—to locate the pulse of a relationship, a desire, a dream.