What happens during a retrograde period?
The R next to a planet is short for Retrograde. A planet is described as retrograde when it appears to be moving backwards through the zodiac. Of course, it doesn’t actually move backwards, but seems to be because of relation of the two orbits. Imagine you are in a train moving at 100 miles per hour, and you catch up and overtake a train moving the same direction at 90 miles per hour. When you come along side the train, and look out the window, it will appear, briefly, not to be moving at all…it appears to be Stationary. Then, as you move ahead of the train, it will actually appear to be moving backwards….it appears to be in Retrograde motion. Now instead of trains, imagine the Earth and the planet in question. A very general rule is that retrograde planets describe a time when things seem to happen out of our control. They may seem fated, they may seem as if they were inevitable. In any event, they bring a series of events over which we seem to have little or no control. What thes
