For those keeping score at home, here is a list of the retrograde and direct cycles for all the planets for the 2022 calendar year. I won’t be commenting or delineating them individually here, just listing them for your reference. However, keep in mind that the retrograde period of a Read more…
So here we are again at the end of a Mercury retrograde cycle, and this one seems to have been particularly fierce for some. There are at least a few reasons for this: Mercury is retrograde Mercury is in Sagittarius for most of this retrograde, where he is debilitated Mercury Read more…
Modern astrology posits that when a planet that goes retrograde and then direct, it also passes through a “shadow” connected to that cycle. The idea is that, for example, if Mercury goes retrograde at, say, 12º Taurus, and then travels back to 2º Taurus, then the “pre-shadow” period is from the Read more…
In the previous post, I outlined a few ways in which a retrograde planet might affect someone personally: the person is heavily ruled by the planet that is retrograde the person is in a planetary period ruled by the retrograde planet the retrograde planet is aspecting a person’s chart directly Read more…
Before listing the actual dates (in a later post), let me make a few comments about retrograde cycles in general and what to do with them. Retrograde Cycles Outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) spend almost half the year retrograde, and they don’t rule zodiacal signs, so for most purposes, one Read more…