what are degrees in a chart?

So in my progressed chart as of today my venus is retrograde 24 degrees does that mean it will turn direct soon?

you can google "progressed chart venus retrograde".

I did and I took the first link which is this:

http://www.cafeastrology.com/astrologyofprogressions.html

Let's look in which year you were born. It was 1981. 31st of December.

How many years have been passed since then? 2015-1981=34.

Now we look at the Venus position 34 days after your birth.

http://www.findyourfate.com/astrology/ephemeris/1982.html

^^^^ In this table we see that Venus went retrograde on the 2nd day of 1982. It was at 24° between 33 and 35 days after your bday. You see how the values in the Venus column decrease from 24°59' to 24°38' and so on until 23"22'. The lowest value before increasing is 23°22'. It was the 11th of February. That is 42 days after your bday. (Then it went direct after on the 12th of February).

According to the rule of "one year=one day", 42 days after is like 42 years after.

When you pass 42 and are 43, that is in nine years the progressed Venus is not retrograde anymore.

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Let's look in which year you were born. It was 1981. 31st of December.

How many years have been passed since then? 2015-1981=34.

Now we look at the Venus position 34 days after your birth.

http://www.findyourfate.com/astrology/ephemeris/1982.html

^^^^ In this table we see that Venus went retrograde on the 2nd day of 1982. It was at 24° between 33 and 35 days after your bday. You see how the values in the Venus column decrease from 24°59' to 24°38' and so on until 23"22'. The lowest value before increasing is 23°22'. It was the 11th of February. That is 42 days after your bday. (Then it went direct after on the 12th of February).

According to the rule of "one year=one day", 42 days after is like 42 years after.

When you pass 42 and are 43, that is in nine years the progressed Venus is not retrograde anymore.

Does venus in retrograde mean you won't find love at all?

google