#natal retrogrades

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Mercury retrograde in 8th house?

🖤this is a very shadow work-y placement, lots of drama, lots of healing

🖤overthinking on a silver platter

🖤struggling to use your voice and communicate properly especially w sensitive subjects

🖤it’s giving past-life drama resurfacing through a Venmo request and a dream about your ex’s grandmother

🖤trauma bond but make it sexy and mysterious

🖤whore for late night deep convos when it feels safe

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Natal Retrogrades—Personal Planets

The three natal retrogrades among the personal planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars) has an impact on how you view these themes. They are an indication of past life karma that you need to work on in this lifetime.

When these planets are retrograde, expressions in these planets are inward rather than outward. The misconception is that you have a ‘backwards’ approach to these themes—that is not true! Simply, natal retrogrades are interal conflicts the person must deal with.

Natal Mercury retrograde indicates you have a hard time asserting yourself in verbal communication. The individual may not always say what they desire, out of an internal fear of not getting your point across or being misunderstood. These natives must carefully piece every sentence before they speak. In fire mercuries, they may come off as too brash or blunt. Air mercuries may come off as ‘smart asses’ or pretentious—possibly a rambler. Earth mercuries may invoke intimidation. Water mercuries may be wishy-washy or have trouble expressing their feelings.

Natal Venus retrograde may feel unworthy or confused in love. They have a hard time finding genuine connections to others and fear vulnerability. They can harbor feelings for long periods of time, which can develop unhealthy coping mechanisms when faced with confrontation or heartbreak. (e.g. Venus retrograde in 12th house may completely shun romance & intimacy once crossed!) These natives must learn that their expression of love will be better in the end.

Native Mars retrograde may be the most difficult. Those with this placement may have a hard time dealing with aggression and are prone to outbursts due to internalized anger. Be careful—anger can make you sick! With this placement, look carefully into where Mars is in your houses. A Mars retrograde individual may have Mars in the 4th house (home, family, mother). This is a possibility of internalized anger & bitterness towards their upbringing—conflicts in the home are a possibility. Mars retrograde natives, one way to discipline yourself & sublimating anger is through meditation, mastering your craft, and exercise. Nothing sweats out anger like some cardio and action painting.

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Retrogrades in the Natal Horoscope

MERCURY RETROGRADE:

When Mercury is retrograde, the thought processes are introspective, deliberate and internalized. Before any personal matter can be discussed, it must be processed internally. This means that, if you want to discuss a personal matter with a Mercury Retrograde friend, you must tell them what you want to discuss and set up an appointment to discuss it. If you want an immediate answer, you will not get an honest or well though out answer. They need time to brood and ponder.

Because these people need to digest and process first, they are slow to defend themselves and slow to respond to queries of a personal nature unless they are prepared ahead of time. • They appreciate a slow reaction in another. • They can easily discuss non-personal subjects, their own interests and expertise, without introspection. This has already been done in the past. On personal subjects, they may not know immediately how they feel about something – they need that brood and ponder time.

Perception is quite good because they are sensitive to how they feel about things; the perceptions are highly individualized. They prefer a Reflective Analysis. In intellectual matters, they are rarely superficial but they tend to analyze, re-analyze, reflect and then apply internally. There is a perfectionistic side so they can talk in absolutes – using terms such as “always” and “never.”

Many Mercury retrograde people feel that they had no one to talk to as a child. The thoughts and mental activity became internalized and highly subjective. They may be prone to day dream. Some may be so absorbed in their own internalized thoughts that they seem absent-minded and unaware of external activities. This is especially true if Mercury is retrograde in the cadent (3, 6, 9, 12) Houses. And, especially if aspecting Neptune, a planet that can go off into its own world and lose track of time.

(not my content) source: http://www.lynnkoiner.com/astrology-articles/retrogrades-in-the-natal-horoscope

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Retrogrades in the Natal Horoscope

SATURN RETROGRADE:

Saturn symbolizes the rules and regulations in the early environment. The sign shows the cultural/societal influences into which they were born. • When Retrograde, you were never really taught an accurate sense of what the rules are and how much to you have to do in order to be responsible. • You were not taught proper discipline but this does not mean that you were not disciplined but there was a certain vagueness about it so that you did not know when to stop yourself–when is it enough? • They often have no idea of what they can or can not do.

Where you find Saturn R, this is where the individual has difficulty saying NO and defining boundaries. They have no clue where these boundaries are so that they have difficulty defining boundaries and setting limits for others as well as themselves.

Saturn R does not know its limitations. At times, these individuals confine themselves to a small corral when they could be roaming 40 acres; others can be so irresponsible that they think that they can roam 80 acres – and all of a sudden they crash into the societal limits that the legal system imposes. They have no boundaries – there is a real problem when Neptune or Pisces is also strong. One individual confided that he does not always pay his bills, does not pay taxes, does not like to work, does not clean…what does he do?! He looks for women to take care of him.

When Saturn is R natally, these people need to teach themselves to say NO, to set boundaries, to learn exactly what is expected of them, and to learn an accurate sense of responsibility. They need to go out into the world and stake out their own boundaries, fight that invisible barrier they create for themselves.

There can be much anxiety in responsibility situations because they do not know how far they can go before their chain begins to choke them. This can cause problems WITH responsibilities due to the self-doubt engendered about when they can actually be permitted to say NO.

(not my content) source: http://www.lynnkoiner.com/astrology-articles/retrogrades-in-the-natal-horoscope