What will Mercury Retrograde 2020 bring for you?Įvents like job interviews, unfinished project activities, long pending issues, unfinished conversations, unresolved discord with near dear ones, stuck up deals, unfinished negotiations etc would take the centre stage in life and there would be opportunities to deal with them and clear it once for all. The outer planets are retrograde about 40% of the time, so most people have at least one of them retrograde.

So, we can interpret these retrogrades as being somewhat less personal, less challenging overall, and requiring smaller adjustments. Jupiter and Saturn go retrograde more frequently, about a third of the time, and their loops shapes are more flattened and less extreme. So, we can interpret the retrogrades of Venus, Mercury, and Mars as being the most personal, the most challenging, and requiring the biggest adjustments. These retrogrades are more extreme in the distance the planet moves away from the ecliptic, which makes their loop shapes more exaggerated. These loops vary in shape much more with the planets that are closest to Earth.ĭuring their respective retrogrades, Venus, Mercury, and Mars all come closer to Earth than the sun, penetrating the interior heart space of our system. Retrograde Typesīecause of the different looping shapes, there are at least eight different types of retrogrades for each of the planets. But since retrograde planets depart from the main highway altogether, perhaps it’s more appropriate to think of them as seekers or explorers who travel the celestial byways in search of something not available on the main highway. Simply by being contrary to the normal flow, retrograde motion represents an exception, or perhaps even a challenge, to this sense of normalcy. The vast majority of planetary motion is direct, so direct becomes “normal.” Most of the time, planets move in forward motion on, or relatively parallel to, the ecliptic, which we can think of as the main highway. Astrologically, when we try to understand the meaning of a planet moving backward, the first thing to note is that it’s a fairly rare occurrence.

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