It dawned on me that one reason the retrograde station of a planet was seen as a bad place for a ‘planet’ was simply because ‘it is standing still’ albeit momentarily, and this goes against the very nature of the planets, who are defined by their movement.
But why is the retrograde station more malefic than the direct station? i think that has to be because it goes against the natural order, which is ‘forward’, simple as that. The direct station must be because its a change of direction, and the loss in ‘speed’ can’t help either.
We must see this as an important factor, because the Sun and Moon never retrograde; and again, ‘life in the main’ is all about moving-on, [sometimes quite quickly], so a retrograde period really puts the ‘brakes’ on ‘for a while’, not so much stopping, but slowing ‘life’ down to a more reflective pace, [maybe].
We must also consider it as ‘going over old ground’ too. Although we ‘hardly’ realise that we are ‘doing just that’ most of the time, meaning….
… the trouble with a planets retrograde motion is… … if you pointed-out to someone a planet was going Rx, and something was possibly ‘happening’ differently [to/for them] during that Rx period, i think most people would be hard-pressed to find something they could say that has changed, so although we know it happens, it is often hard to pin-down, certainly internally, as we ‘do’ when a planet is ‘direct’..
I have already noted a ‘change’ in a few things.
Its happening in Virgo, [so you may have expected] some ‘things’ of this ‘sign’ to appear, and so along comes ‘reforms’ in the British ‘health service’ which are now front page news; but i say, let’s see where they get to by the end of the retrograde period.
Virgo also sees talk of ‘moving’ [relocating] the London ‘design’ centre/museum.
And there’s big news of an oil refinery closing and the potential of chaos it would bring to the ‘car’ owners. Here Mars is all ‘about’ the ‘combustion’ engine, whilst ‘refinery’ and ‘chaos’ are very ‘apt’ Virgoan states of being.
Also just at the ‘time’ of the ‘station’ there’s news of Iran and a ‘blockade/closure’ of the straits of Homuz, which would threaten oil tankers movements, not surprisingly we see the ‘stationed’ Mars on the 7th house of one of Iran’s mundane maps, so the possible threat of a war-like state between the West and Iran seems to be more than feasible just now.
Note: its always ‘worth’ noting that often a previous horoscope for a country, to the current ‘one’ still resonates even afterwards, take the 1801 UK chart as an example.
So once again the Media hasn’t let us down with its World coverage, and let’s not forget Nick Campion’s World Horoscope’s, which has helped this post to be created.
Note: Its funny but out of ‘all’ the posts i’ve written, the ‘ones’ which seem to produce the most fresh and original material are the posts on retrograde motion, especially when a planet is ‘turning’, whether its into retrograde or direct motion, making me think this has to be one of the ‘top’ area’s for ‘new’ astrological ‘understanding’ and possible research, [at least for me].
