The first-mover sign meets the don't-pursue window. Venus pulls back; let her.
Venus Retrograde for Aries is the slow-down on the chase. You are wired to pursue — in love, in attraction, in taste, in spending. The retrograde wants you not to. The trap is meeting someone in week one and turning the full Aries voltage on them; what looks like chemistry is often just heat looking for a target. The deeper trap is impulse-spending on the bold thing — a wardrobe upgrade, a big-ticket want — that the post-retrograde you would not buy. The gift, when you let it land, is rare for this sign: ~40 days of clarity on what you actually want versus what you have been wanting because wanting feels good.
Pursuing the new flame in week one with the usual Aries fire — and watching them ghost as the truth surfaces.
A rare ~40 days where the universe stops you from chasing the wrong person. The clarity on what you actually want lands when you stop charging.
You will hate the slowness and discover by the end that what survived the slowness is what was real.
For ~40 days, every want gets a 7-day waiting period before action. Aries Venus survives by enforced delay-on-want.