Current retrogrades

[watchman11]

Retrograde planets have a tendency to make us more touchy or withdrawn. and we happen to have a bunch of them currently active. So if you've felt down or had trouble looking forward to much, you may want to look up in which house the planets are currently transiting in your chart.

This is a chart for the beginning of the year.



The green areas are fine. The orange ones are the "shadow" areas, when the influence of the retrograde starts being felt, and the red ones are the more potent time frames.

A few words about the planets...

Pluto retrograde demands that we do some inner cleansing. It's the planet of Death and rebirth as well as the occult. So it's likely to bring up to the surface what have been denying/repressing.

Neptune retrograde makes it heard to see things as they really are, as well as more dreamy/melancholy. (Neptune rules illusion, dreams).

Jupiter retrograde is about impeded growth. We're being held back by external events to force us to look within.

Uranus is the planet of sudden/erratic changes, as well as the expression of individuality. Its being retrograde is likely to make people more impulsive and rebellious because they'll feel more quickly smothered by others.

Saturn is the stern taskmaster. It's also in Virgo so the lessons associated with the placement have to do with service, learning to be more discriminative. It can also be a sign for us to pay more attention to our health.

[nani]

thanx watchman, thats a great thing you`ve posted!

and what do you think about when this running retrogard Saturn on top is in Opposit to radix Venus ??
would be very interesting to know your opinion, and surely other`s too.

[watchman11]

glad you liked it nani. In which house does radix venus sit?

[nani]

hi again! my Venus is in the 7th house.

oh and what does "learning to be more discriminative" finally mean? to be able to adapt more to other peoples needs, or the opposite? Im not so sure if I got the right meaning.. thanx!

[BenHangen]

What do you get when you do it siderealy?

[nani]

whom you are asking Ben?
I dont know how to get it sideraly or how it would be then, do you?

[BenHangen]

Anyone Nani! Sidereal astrology would be more like Vedic astrology where as they use the real positions of the planets. No, I don’t do Vedic or any one particular type of astrology but I would lean toward Kabalistic astrology. An example of this is by astrology the retrograde of mars is in Cancer going back to Gemini, and if you look up in the sky mars is going retrograde across the Milky Way and between the horns of Taurus. In alchemy this could be signifying energy fluxating events.

One way to experiment is to associate tarot cards with planets and place them around in there positions and see if you can arrive at any conclusions? There are classic standards for these associations if you look or I’ll post a kabalistic link that gives these associations.

[nani]

thanx for explaining! and yes please post this link, I would love to know more about it!!

[BenHangen]

ifdawn.com/

Is the link, and click on this part it will give a view of how it relates together.

About the Qabala: History, Overview, Bibliography, and Charts

The Tree is an "alembic-" a chamber for containing and observing chemical reactions, and for isolating compounds. The alembic was originally a tool of alchemy, or for distilling liquor. The ingredients go into one end, go through complex processes, and come out the other end purified.

This is a way of relating “The Secret” or the emerald tablet of Hermes. The real secret and not the BS put out by the Hicks and that Abraham thing.

[nani]

thanx a lot Ben, very interesting side!