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Could the “wobble\ of a planet from gravitational effects of its moon reach a point where it has epicycles like the Ptolemaic model?

April 26, 2017epicycles gravitational model moon Planet point ptolemaic REACH

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Could the “wobble\ of a planet from gravitational effects of its moon reach a point where it has epicycles like the Ptolemaic model?

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I suppose one could imagine a situation in which motion about a common center of mass were exaggerated enough to cause “true” retrograde motion (say, between near-equal-mass widely-separated double planets). I doubt the Ptolemaic model would satisfactorily describe it, though.