Astrology by Paul Saunders : retrograde
Showing posts with label retrograde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label retrograde. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 January 2022

Full Moon in Cancer – Foreshadowing a deeper and more intense change


















I don't know about you and in your life, but the last few days have seemed to me to be pretty intense. We have just been through a very difficult moment as Mercury stationed retrograde while activating the big aspect of 2021, the Saturn square to Uranus. This brought back issues from 2021 into focus, and forced us to face matters that we were responsible for, maybe for difficult positions that we had put ourselves in previously? Both Mercury and Venus are now retrograde for pretty much the rest of this month, and we likely find ourselves to be in some kind of roll back situation until they both turn direct – first Venus on 29th January followed by Mercury on 4th February. These will dredge up situations linked to previous decisions and rules activated by the Mercury station, and we may have to deal with previous social contacts or maybe financial issues affected by Venus. All these will have to be considered and reviewed by the end of the month.

Thursday, 30 September 2021

How will the United States deal with its Pluto Return?

Tomorrow we enter October and a month that will see three of our outer planets starting to march forward once again. It really will be a turnaround month with Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury all switching motion from retrograde to direct. Just for the record, Pluto stations on the 6th followed by Saturn on the 11th. Then Jupiter and Mercury simultaneously change direction on the 18th October within 10 hours of each other. By the middle of the month we really should be starting to build up a head of steam, engines ready to go, as the prospect of making some forward progress in our lives becomes an actual reality. Much of what we were able to muster in the previous month or two may have been linked in some way in the past. Now we will be able to use everything that we have been given, and look to branch out into fresh territory.

Wednesday, 8 September 2021

Mercury Retrograde in Libra – How we relate to each other













Yesterday as we experienced a New Moon in Virgo, Mercury quietly entered the retrograde zone where it will be operating between now and 22nd November. Often we Astrologers get fixated on the actual degrees where Mercury stops and stations, and we forget the general theme that is going on. Especially in Virgo season, one might be prone to take our eyes off the wider picture, but we shouldn't.

Friday, 25 June 2021

Neptune Retrograde – Seeking inner peace




We are just about to experience one of the most subtle and elusive planetary movements, as Neptune turns retrograde until 1st December. Firstly I think that this retrograde works on a very deep unconscious level. Now to make sense of things you have to look at the part of the chart that Neptune is transiting, and then think back to issues surrounding these areas of life. For example, if Neptune is moving in your 6th house, them matters of health, work, routine or service may be ones where you have existing buried fears, especially from the past. Rather than trying to ignore them or trying to hide them away, Neptune retrograde will slowly bring them to the surface, so that you can tackle them head on. In the wider world, look to things that people have buried or hidden, maybe on purpose because of wrong doing, being exposed to the full glare of public scrutiny.

Neptune at the same time may be eroding and dissolving these areas of life, and over time lessening the responsibilities that you have surrounding those fears, so that over a period of time, and I am suggesting several retrograde patterns or years, those concerns are also eradicated. On the outside nothing may be changing to those around you, Neptune always puts up a smoke screen, but you will understand inwardly that a slow weakening or dissolution is actually going on. What Neptune is doing will be cleaning much that is toxic or neglected in your life, so that spiritually you will be more free in the future, however the whole process may be a painful one, as you undergo this ever so slow and laborious journey.

I suggest that Neptune retrograde will be a time that we will be less outward going than the previous 6 months, and that you may at times want to withdraw in, especially surrounding those areas of life that Neptune is affecting, so that these subtle and necessary changes can occur. Coming to terms with what needs to be sacrificed or eradicated in your life so that other areas can be freed up are sometimes difficult choices, but these are ones that we must make so that we can lessen our inner worries, and be able to have more freedom in the future. Sometimes matters will be taken out of our hands completely to let Neptune do its work, and if this is the case, then make peace with everything, and allow the process to start. Letting go of what burdens us to the whims of fate is sometimes the best decision that we can ever make...

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Saturday, 28 November 2020

Neptune Stations Direct in Pisces - The clouds break, and blue skies appear




We are on the cusp of another one of the planets that went retrograde in the Summer causing the logjam of problems that we have all been sorting through, finally going direct. This time it is Neptune, and it turns in the early hours of tomorrow (29th November 2020) at 00.36 hrs UK time.