Retrograde Planets in Astrology
When a planet is retrograde, it appears to be moving backward in the sky. A retrograde planet appears to be moving backward in the sky, but it is actually stationary and appears to be moving backward relative to the Earth’s movement. Retrograde means the reflection of things related to the planet. A retrograde planet is strong. Many of the things the planet rules become confused and backed up in our minds. Re-thinking, Re-evaluating, and Re-assaying is the theme of retrograde planets. The lack of confidence and confusion around what the planet rules in our lives becomes a source of greater scrutiny, but eventually it gives greater clarity in our minds. With time, this leads to improvement in the area of life that the planet rules.
Effect of Retrograde planets on life.
Retrograde Saturn: A retrograde Saturn makes the individual seek a different kind of responsibility and purpose in life. The person may be challenged by either the father or other authority figures to take more responsibility for their actions. Through past life experiences, they answer their critics with a slow persistence in reaching their goals in life. Where the planet is by house and where it rules shows the area where they will have to strive hard for success. A retrograde Saturn builds the character to accept small gains in the long process of success. Security issues need to be addressed in their present life. Saturn’s sign in the chart is where the person needs to address the demands and responsibilities of life.
Saturn Retrograde gives a deep sense of frustration, obstruction, slowness, limitation, and secretiveness. Brings a lack of progress, feelings of inferiority, and timidity. Saturn is the significator of the carrier, money, social circle, long-term plans, and hard work. Retrograde Saturn redoubles the efforts on all these things. Saturn always indicates a continuous karma from the past, and much of what is done is a repeat of the past. Retrograde Saturn steadies ambition, lacks confidence, and is highly resistant to change, and tends to keep the individual tied to the past. Have inner fears of commitments. In Retrograde Planets Struggling with opponents and hard work without recognition can be self-defeating, with many stress patterns. Saturn Retrograde brings karmic duties, and frustration can be therapeutic in developing inner strength. The individual should not build a wall around himself, is inhibited or sad and weak, complaining, and reluctant. The person must do a lot of hard work to complete things; long-term plans slow down. The person has always adjusted, readjusted, and recalculated the strategy of life. Due to that person settling late in life, they need more insight.
Retrograde Jupiter: Jupiter is an important planet in astrology. Jupiter is the teacher, wisdom, belief, faith, spirituality, religion, finance, and significator of children. Jupiter Retrograde makes the native overconfident, extravagant, overbearing, and too blunt. It can create lawlessness and problems with the authorities. Retrograde Jupiter has a strong sense of righteousness and is very opinionated when it comes to religion. Retrograde Jupiter creates confusion around many aspects of life. The native Lives in a world that has been internalized and reflects on religion, spirituality, philosophies, teachers, and a sense of meaning and purpose. They may suffer in education, finance, and they tend to reexamine or question a lot of things related to Jupiter, but with time, they become good money managers because they suffered initially. They become very spiritual in their later life.
Retrograde Mars represents our principal, discipline in movement, inner strength, our fighting ability, will power, and our ability to take action. Mars also presents a brother and a male friend in a woman’s chart. Mars is retrograde, and the person is confused about Mars-related things. These people feel a lack of energy, they never initiate anything they feel lethargic.In Retrograde Planets They think more before taking any action. They have weak willpower the native, think a lot about their principles, and may become frustrated due to a lack of discipline within them. Mars Retrograde increases combativeness, friction, temper, passion, severity of temperament, impulsiveness to act and assert oneself based on personal desire. Passion and anger are expressed differently. Undue haste can cause accidents. Relationships are nearly always distorted on the sexual level, or the sex drive is increased and never feels satisfied. This person is likely to have multiple partners. Retrograde Mars is more difficult for females. Prone to unreliability in love relationships, it can cause feelings of guilt and blame, which tend to cause isolation. The individual wants to feel close but holds himself back. Women may have overcharged sexual energy, and tension can cause conflicts, frigidity, and difficulty in relationships with males.
Retrograde Venus: Venus represents love, happiness, relationships, romance, creativity, and compromise in relationships. Retrograde Venus reflects a lot on Venus’s aspect of life. These people are reserved in relationships. They always calculate and reevaluate the relationship. They took too much caution in their relationship because of this, they ruined their relationship. They try to perfect the things related to Venus, but life is not perfect; people are not perfect. One should learn to live life in this imperfect world so that we can stay happy. Venus signifies sensuality and love; with retrograde Venus, it does not flow smoothly. There is always difficulty with the opposite sex, creating misunderstandings. Retrograde Planets People with this placement have a powerful tendency to mistrust most offers of love and tend to jump to conclusions about feelings. They want to be reached and touched, but do not want to admit it, and in fact, they are difficult to reach and touch, as they are fearful of being hurt. They respond poorly to the emotional needs of others. Retrograde Venus tends to hide from her own feelings; therefore, they tends to go through life the hard way. Feeling sorry for her cause’s unhappiness and social disharmony. They do not value the finer things of life. In males, intrigues lead to enmity with women, disappointments, and unsatisfactory arrangements with others. Retrograde Venus people are late bloomers and untidy, and they may keep their emotions under tight control and may look for abnormal relationships. With time, these people learn lessons about love, and they become very mature in love.
Retrograde Mercury: Mercury is our logical mind, it is our communication ability, Retrograde Planets how we analyze things, and our intelligence. It is dependent on mercury. Mercury retrograde people are careful and fearful about mercury-related things like speech, calculations, communication, or analyzing things very deeply. They are always reassessing things; they think a lot, so that things can’t go wrong related to mercury stuff. Retrograde Mercury has a fault-finding inferiority complex. These individuals find it difficult to concentrate and focus. Slow perception can create learning difficulties. Excessive nervous activity can manifest as difficulties with the family, relatives, and others. A lack of patience can create poor judgment through impulsive thinking. The Retrograde Mercury makes mental concentration difficult, and irritability triggers feelings of separation. The individual is uncommunicative or has superficial, unpopular opinions. His ideas have power, but he lacks the opportunities for them to manifest. He can be self-critical, worries a lot, has difficulty making quick decisions, and can be absent-minded and uninformed. Criticism and recklessness can lead to resentment.
Sun and Moon never retrograde. Rahu and Ketu are always retrograde; they are never direct. Generally, retrograde planets delay whatever they signify in life.
The retrograde planet teaches a lesson that we should not think more about certain things. If we think more about relationships and always doubt other people, it always ruins the relationship.
