Retrograde Planets Meanings

 

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Viewed in karmic terms, retrograde planets in your natal chart can indicate internal struggle regarding an unachieved goal or an unfinished life lesson or lessons. Generally, natal planets in retrograde tend to internalize their influences, allowing you to work on your character. Your Sun and your Moon are never retrograde. The closest the Moon comes is when it is Void of Course. This is a time when it is best to refrain from beginning anything that you wish to see come to completion.

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When your North and South Nodes are retrograde, you have a strong indication that these lessons have carried forward over several previous lifetimes.

Listing of Mercury and other planet retrogrades for the current year.

Below are some interpretations for retrograde planets found in the natal chart. With discernment, you may use these ideas as a basis for figuring out how the current retrogrades may "act" on the general public.

Mercury involves mental processes and communication of all kinds. Exploring ideas, seeking knowledge, writing, public speaking, making contacts, even short trips and commerce fall into Mercury‘s domain. Mercury is retrograde at least three times each year, and is our most frequently retrograde planet. During this usually three week timeframe, misunderstandings increase, mail and email gets lost, messages are delayed or appear elsewhere, misdirection and frustration with miscommunications of all kinds tend to intensify. Odd ideas tend to occur as normal abilities and patterns of writing, learning, and speech become disrupted.

For a few, this retrograde actually has the opposite effect. New ideas, new speaking or writing abilities are often revealed in folks whose natal Mercury is retrograde. Are you normally hesitant or afraid to speak out? Do you find yourself very concerned with how others will take your words or what will happen if you speak your mind? You few, may tend to get a kind of vacation from or improvements in both your usual internal and external dialogue.

In Karmic terms, Mercury retrograde in your natal chart suggests that you may be dealing with old lessons about the negative consequences of uninhibited speech. Motives mean a lot to you. You could find yourself attracting more than your share of criticism or opposition to your ideas, but if you let that stop you from speaking your mind, you are essentially inhibiting yourself from communicating. You can learn to overcome your fears. Most other people are actually more concerned with how the world sees them than they are about what they think about you. Apply your curiosity, flexibility, and take an active interest in the welfare or interests of people around you. Half of your ability comes from listening! If speaking to groups of people makes you nervous, let your thoughts escape into the outside world by writing. Make small talk wherever possible about any topics of interest, while you boost your self confidence and begin to overcome your hesitance of expounding your personal views in public.

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Jan 11, 2009     4:44 PM                Mer Rx
Feb  1, 2009     7:11 AM                Mer Direct
May  7, 2009     5:01 AM                Mer Rx
May 31, 2009     1:22 AM                Mer Direct
Sep  7, 2009     4:45 AM                Mer Rx
Sep 29, 2009     1:13 PM                Mer Direct
Dec 26, 2009     2:38 PM                Mer Rx
Jan 15, 2010     4:52 PM                Mer Direct
Apr 18, 2010     4:06 AM                Mer Rx
May 11, 2010    10:27 PM                Mer Direct
Aug 20, 2010     7:58 PM                Mer Rx
Sep 12, 2010    11:09 PM                Mer Direct
Dec 10, 2010    12:05 PM                Mer Rx
Dec 30, 2010     7:21 AM                Mer Direct
Mar 30, 2011     8:48 PM                Mer Rx
Apr 23, 2011    10:04 AM                Mer Direct
Aug  3, 2011     3:50 AM                Mer Rx
Aug 26, 2011    10:03 PM                Mer Direct
Nov 24, 2011     7:19 AM                Mer Rx
Dec 14, 2011     1:43 AM                Mer Direct
Mar 12, 2012     7:49 AM                Mer Rx
Apr  4, 2012    10:11 AM                Mer Direct
Jul 15, 2012     2:16 AM                Mer Rx
Aug  8, 2012     5:40 AM                Mer Direct
Nov  6, 2012    11:04 PM                Mer Rx
Nov 26, 2012    10:47 PM                Mer Direct

Venus involves pleasure, love, romance, relaxation, aesthetics, peaceful feelings, harmony, money, and values. Venus tends to work by attraction. Approximately every eighteen months or so, Venus slips into retrograde for about six weeks. While Venus is retrograde, you are more likely to find your ability to attract what you want restricted or inhibited. You could find yourself much more concerned with achieving or maintaining external beauty, your flow of ready cash, questioning your ideas of pleasure, aesthetics, or even revaluating your feelings about romantic relationships.

Do you find yourself inhibited about seeking what you really want from your romantic partner? Does your ability to attract the money and attention you feel that you need seem to cause you problems? Is your natal Venus retrograde?

A natal Venus retrograde can cause you difficulty achieving fulfillment or finding your right romantic partner. You may be more in love with your ideas about love than you are with any real person you know. In karmic terms, you need to complete a life lesson about giving and receiving love and affection. You are here to determine what is truly of value to you and learn about creating a balance of give and take in your romantic life. Your romantic dialogue has a tendency to be far too internal at times, causing you to inhibit the flow of good things into your life. You will have to be willing to experience loving and being loved in order to attract what you desire into your life and create the feelings of security you need.

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Mar  6, 2009     5:17 PM                Ven Rx
Apr 17, 2009     7:24 PM                Ven Direct
Oct  8, 2010     7:06 AM                Ven Rx
Nov 18, 2010     9:18 PM                Ven Direct
May 15, 2012     2:33 PM                Ven Rx
Jun 27, 2012     3:07 PM                Ven Direct

Mars represents direct energy, physical expression, individual action and assertiveness, as well as anger, desire, sexuality, competitiveness and motivation for self interest. Mars energies tend to burst forward exerted in short duration. Every two years Mars goes retrograde for two to two-and-a-half months. What often results are upsets and frustrations in daily life as emotions which should be externalized becoming internalized, a kind of chewing up one’s self. When you finally explode, it is likely as not that in doing so you will be acting out aggressively against your own self interest.

If you have Mars in retrograde in your natal chart, you may find that you are waging an internal battle causing you difficulty in asserting yourself because you are afraid of the consequences of releasing your anger. You may tend to over think before you act. You may find that you have a tendency to hold back. In karmic terms, you are likely to be attempting to make up for some vaguely recollected but deeply influential past misdeeds you now regret. Whatever the cause, you are holding yourself back instead of standing up directly for your own interests. This works directly against the life lesson that you are here to accomplish. Your are learning about yourself, defining who you are by what actions you take. You will need to let go of timidity or a lack of direction in order work out how you can initiate actions without creating a chaos of needless destruction. Here is a key indicated by your 7^th House Sign and its natural ruler Venus.

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Dec 20, 2009     1:26 PM                Mar Rx
Mar 10, 2010     5:09 PM                Mar Direct
Jan 24, 2012    12:54 AM                Mar Rx
Apr 14, 2012     3:53 AM                Mar Direct

Jupiter represents the principles of expansion, gambling, speculation, luck, opportunities, optimism, abundance, travel, higher education, teaching, religion and philosophy. Approximately four months a year, this planet slips into retrograde. When it does, you are likely to see its influence roll through your life and society around you. Plans have a tendency to implode. Jupiter retrograde influences us internally to look within to seek new meanings. You may find you can best use these opportunities to revaluate your life and reach new levels of awareness and understanding.

If Jupiter is retrograde in your natal chart, you have a very rich internal life. You actually make your own luck. Abundance is felt within as you search the world looking to discover truth and develop a broader philosophy of life and living. At the same time, you may feel hesitant about involving yourself to deeply in others affairs or sharing your views out of a concern for being thought so different that you may be cast out by public opinion. Speculations may not bring you all the external rewards you seek, but each time you take a chance, your adventures allow you to gain from a wide variety of experiences. You must remain open and honest with yourself in order to expand your spirituality and allow your inner voice to guide you.

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Jun 15, 2009     7:50 AM                Jup Rx
Oct 13, 2009     4:35 AM                Jup Direct
Jul 23, 2010    12:03 PM                Jup Rx
Nov 18, 2010     4:54 PM                Jup Direct
Aug 30, 2011     9:17 AM                Jup Rx
Dec 25, 2011    10:08 PM                Jup Direct
Oct  4, 2012     1:18 PM                Jup Rx

Saturn deals with karma, limits, responsibility, tradition, conservatives, authorities, long term goals and accomplishments patiently created, taking responsibility, creating structure, and setting boundaries. Once a year the planet Saturn goes into retrograde for about four-and-a-half months. During this influence, you will probably find it unwise to attempt sudden changes or to rush through things. Take practical steps and accept limitations while you take serious steps toward your long term goals. Saturn retrograde can cause you to become your own hardest taskmaster, limit your actions or leave you feeling blocked and pessimistic. .

Saturn retrograde in your natal chart, indicates that you are likely to have been abused by those with power over you, perhaps having faced unfair situations at home. You may need to declare personal boundaries, to work out conflicts with authority on a karmic scale. You could feel that fate conspires against your desires but it’s really you putting the brakes on through feelings of persecution or inhibition in the house where it is placed until you work out how to face doing or confronting whoever or whatever it is that threatens you. Your lesson is one of patience and steady application of hard work as you overcome the impatient urge to cut corners. Everything you gain will be hard won but you will eventually succeed, win the respect of others and actually can shine where you faced difficulties before.

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May 17, 2009     2:06 AM                Sat Direct
Jan 13, 2010     3:57 PM                Sat Rx
May 30, 2010     6:08 PM                Sat Direct
Jan 26, 2011     6:09 AM                Sat Rx
Jun 13, 2011     3:52 AM                Sat Direct
Feb  7, 2012     2:03 PM                Sat Rx
Jun 25, 2012     8:00 AM                Sat Direct

Planet of change, independence and risk Uranus is retrograde for about five months out of every year. While it is, you can expect the unexpected. The situation is not secure. Things are subject to sudden fluctuation and you may be feeling a bit stubborn, rebellious, your emotions explosive and uncooperative toward anyone or anything that represents the status quo. Internally, you may feel like you are so ready to take a risk and just blow off conventional wisdom or prescribed ways of doing things.

If Uranus is retrograde in your natal chart, you fare more than ready to try something new and are very likely to experience wide fluxuations in circumstances in the areas of life represented by the house in which Uranus is placed even if your manner has a tendency to hide it. You really do have a tendency to push thing to extremes there. You are actually a catalyst for positive energies if you channel your rebelliousness into originality as you move toward independence and personal freedom. Karma indicates that you are here to learn about individuality, opening up to an attitude that change is very good and that personal experimentation with the cultural order is as great way to shake this up.

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Jul  1, 2009     7:37 AM                Ura Rx
Dec  1, 2009     8:27 PM                Ura Direct
Jul  5, 2010     4:49 PM                Ura Rx
Dec  6, 2010     1:50 AM                Ura Direct
Jul 10, 2011    12:35 AM                Ura Rx
Dec 10, 2011     7:04 AM                Ura Direct
Jul 13, 2012     9:49 AM                Ura Rx
Dec 13, 2012    12:02 PM                Ura Direct

Neptune goes into retrograde five months out of every year, a time when a lack of boundaries, imagination, creativity and a desire to experience the pleasures of the moment can get the best of you as logic is set aside replaced by feelings and intuition. There is a tremendous amount of creative potential for you to achieve your dreams if you rise above your ego and focus your activities and compassion outward as well as inward.

Neptune retrograde in your natal chart indicates that you could feel inhibited by the harsh realities of the physical world, choosing to spend a lot of time in your own imagination. Daydreams could replace active participation in life inhibiting your ability to realize your potentials in the areas of life represented by the house where Neptune is placed. Substance abuse can be triggered by a need to escape and you can fall prey to your own illusions if you don’t accept people as they are and use your sensitivity to let go of limitations as you stay connected to others.

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May 29, 2009     4:30 AM                Nep Rx
Nov  4, 2009     6:10 PM                Nep Direct
May 31, 2010     6:48 PM                Nep Rx
Nov  7, 2010     6:04 AM                Nep Direct
Jun  3, 2011     7:28 AM                Nep Rx
Nov  9, 2011     6:54 PM                Nep Direct
Jun  4, 2012     9:05 PM                Nep Rx
Nov 11, 2012     7:53 AM                Nep Direct

Pluto is the planet of complete transformation, upheaval, reversals, and bew beginnings, and spends on average, five months out of the year in retrograde. is also a time of destruction and rebuilding when intense situations and outside forces intervene. Be willing to go to extremes and prepared to cut away the useless in those areas of life represented by the house your Pluto is in, releasing what no longer serves you in order to regenerate your life.

Pluto retrograde in your natal chart indicates that you are here to learn karmic lessons about intensity, control, and struggles for dominance. While you are wrestling with you own inner conflicts, outside forces are likely to upset your life. You are likely to find public opinion can be fickle, giving you little outward reason for blind trust in others. The people who make up your world may revere you one moment and revile you the next. Part of your lesson is to refuse to get locked in a battle of egos. Penetrate to the essence of the situation uncovering hidden truth. Trust your instincts being completely honest with yourself. Forgive yourself and others, but do not forget the lessons as you learn that you are the final authority. You may not always be able to control what you face nor what is done, but you are in sole control of how you choose to respond or react.

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Apr  4, 2009     5:35 PM                Plu Rx
Sep 11, 2009     4:57 PM                Plu Direct
Apr  7, 2010     2:34 AM                Plu Rx
Sep 14, 2010     4:36 AM                Plu Direct
Apr  9, 2011     8:51 AM                Plu Rx
Sep 16, 2011     6:24 PM                Plu Direct
Apr 10, 2012     4:24 PM                Plu Rx
Sep 18, 2012     5:07 AM                Plu Direct