2 posts tagged “retrograde”

Hee. Everyone freaks at retrograde periods, but since I have like half my planets retrograde/stationary, I am all "who cares, that Mercury shit never happens to me, wheeeeeeeeeeeeee." 

Now here comes Uranus retrograde starting tomorrow and for the rest of the year (great, we needed MORE crazy out there, thanks, universe) everyone gets to shit more bricks. I started to wonder about this, like "OMG IS URANUS GOING TO GET ME FIRED?" (answer: probably not till it hits my sixth house, so I got a while), then remembered, "Oh, hey, that's also retrograde in my natal. Never mind! Same level of natural-born crazy here!)

From astrology.com e-mail:

"Uranus is the oddball of the solar system. For starters, it rolls along its side -- on its equator -- instead of spinning upright in its orbit the way planets typically do. Uranus is also in retrograde for more than half of the year. This means it is only direct for two weeks, and is retrograde for about five months out of every Earth year."

So...Uranus is wonky A MAJORITY OF THE TIME, PEOPLE. It's always crazy. Chillax.

"Astrologically, Uranus liberates you from the shackles of convention and applies pressure to change whatever is stagnant in your life. Uranus rules electromagnetic energy and is like a lightning storm that creates chaos as it cleans the air, revealing a fresh new world once the storm has cleared.

But when Uranus is retrograde, expect the unexpected. Wonderful and startling surprises are very possible. This retrograde may set your wild side free, or it could make a notoriously outgoing person uncharacteristically shy.

To know exactly what to expect, review the placement of Uranus in your birth chart. If Uranus is direct in a chart, intuitive and inventive impulses flow on a regular basis. However, when Uranus is retrograde in a birth chart, rebellious urges tend to bottle up and then burst forth, seemingly out of nowhere. A retrograde period seems to reawaken freedom urges within individuals, causing them to suddenly and unconsciously rebel against any ruts or confinement in life. Is Uranus retrograde in your birth chart? Should you be on guard against your own rebellious tendencies in the following months to come?"

I am thinking about doing a NaNoWriMo month in July. I wonder what that counts as?

"Anyway, astrologically we know Venus is retrograde and so is Saturn. Many (of my clients) are suffering profoundly with this as they want to move and go and progress but they are finding it very hard to get themselves untangled and headed in the right direction.
I am having the same problem, you can see it on this blog. This blog is no longer coherent (from my perspective) and I wish this wasn’t the case but it is the case. I just can’t quite start up the mountain in a way that is focused because I can’t quite find the mountain!
It is that or I am gathering skills I will need to succeed. In some cases I’ve got baggage Ive got to dump and maybe you get the idea. We’re all sort of stuck right now, sorting things out and what I wanted to tell you is we’re all going to be getting unstuck, mid May.
Both Venus and Saturn will be direct at that time and things should begin to clarify. Expecting this to happen any sooner - expecting anything of anyone any sooner is probably going to prove disappointing so I suggest treading water to some extent.
I don’t mean do nothing. It is more like do everything. Do everything you can to not only maintain yourself but to ‘train up” as the soldier would say because Show Time is coming in about 4 weeks."