Retrograde

When a planet appears to move backwards across the sky. A time to review rather than rush ahead.

Fig. 17 · Retrograde

Planets don't really reverse. As Earth overtakes a slower planet (or a faster one swings round the Sun), it appears from here to drift backwards against the stars for a few weeks, then turns direct again.

Astrologers read these stretches as times to revisit, revise and reconsider whatever that planet rules.


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