NATAL PLANETS IN RETROGRADE ✨✨💫
A retrograde is defined as when a planet is rotating in the opposite direction that it is normally rotating in. And sometimes, at the time of our birth, there are one or more planets that are in retrograde, therefore influencing our natal chart. Anything planet that is in retrograde in our natal chart internalizes the influence of that planet, and makes the qualities of that planet something that can be felt clearly on the inside but something that isn’t able to be expressed on the outside.
✨THE SUN AND THE MOON DO NOT GO INTO RETROGRADE✨
NATAL MERCURY IN RETROGRADE
The mind becomes an extension of the subconscious instead of a form of outer expression. Words are internalized and will bloom inside, they will take root within your brain and will rarely be shown the light of day. (And I don’t mean shallow conversation, I mean the deeper, more private side of you and of your words). Words will flow freely in your mind but mean all the wrong things when they come out of your mouth. What you speak is not always what you think, and what you think is not always what you speak. Traditional public education may be difficult, as you are not always best equipped to express your mind in a strictly academic environment. Try expressing your mind through alternative means like art, music, and dance, something that allows for your mind to speak without words.
NATAL VENUS IN RETROGRADE
Your love and what you find beautiful is internalized. Your personal aesthetic or your personal style may be hard to come up with or hard to find,you may never be truly comfortable in the clothing that you wear. Your expression of love and affection is something that has to be forcibly pulled out from deep inside, and you may feel like love is something that you lack, or rather something that you do not show enough. Love and relationships will be a tender and deep part of your life for you, and something that you will constantly have to work through. You may feel like you could have always been more in a relationship. More loving. More tender. More comforting. More kind. More, more, and more, you will give all of yourself away and never realize that your love on its own is enough. You do not have to prove that you love someone/something. We all love in different and naturally complex ways. Take your time.
There is an anger inside but something will prevent it from leaving your body and your mind. Those that are cruel to you will mistake your silence for weakness or indifference. Your anger is not a flame but it is an ocean, and many people will not recognize water as anger. Your passion is something that is sedated. And sometimes you will drown in the ocean that you have created, with the outer expression of anger and passion being just above the surface but being unable to escape. Because of the silencing of the warrior inside you have learned to avoid confrontation, arguments, competition, anything that requires you to express something that you often fear that you do not possess. And sometimes will you direct all of the anger that is not able to be expressed back onto yourself. You do not have to prove your anger. Your energy. Your drive. And during the course of your life, learn to not destroy yourself.
NATAL JUPITER IN RETROGRADE
Your philosophies and expansion will be on the inside. Your life will be one of constant and unyielding self expansion internally, with thoughts and ideas about life being yours and yours only. Your view on the world may be seen as different, as modern day religions and spiritual concepts are never are able to completely define the way that you feel about this earth on the inside. Society cannot “taint” your personal philosophies and preconceived ideas about life itself. With all of this self growth you may look at the rest of the world and wonder why others cannot simply grow too, why they seemingly cannot expand from who they used to be and involve into who they actually are. However, with all of this internalized growth your external growth may be stagnant. You may plan, start something new, throw away all of your progress, plan again, and the cycle continues. It may seem as if you have so many great ideas but they never come into fruition, that your ideas stay ideas and never become visible. Growth on the inside will not be as easy. Take time to projects and care for your ideas, it may take you longer to execute them but it does not mean that they are not worth it.
NATAL SATURN IN RETROGRADE
Saturn has barricaded you from yourself. Who you are and who you can be is often not felt, there will be a deep rooted fear that you will never live up to other’s expectations and that you will never be enough. You truly knows what it feels like to have restrictions harbored within yourself, to know what it feels like to go through life lesson after life lesson until you are unable to recognize yourself. You are uncertain in your abilities and who you will become later on. You may feel as if you are blocked off from doing things or achieving things that you want to achieve because of something holding you back deep within yourself. This is not a curse, it is only something that if accepted instead of rejected will allow you to grow. Saturn is the teacher and what you will have to learn is yourself. How to grow when everything that you are has been taken away. Who you are when no one else, not even yourself, is able to define you. What life lessons truly mean and how they help you grow.
NATAL URANUS IN RETROGRADE
I promise that you inner individuality is there. That your uniqueness is there. No human on this earth is like any other and you are no exception. You may not be able to see it on the outside but is definitely within, your ideas and personal revolutions challenge society itself. And sometimes, many times, society will fail to reflect how you feel the world should be inside. And sometimes, many times, you’ll feel helpless and as if you’re unable to change that. Your ideas may just be your own but it does not mean that they are small. It does not mean that they are unable to be shown. Expressing your view on the world may be difficult, yes, explaining how you think society should change may be difficult, yes, but as long as you are promoting a positive change what is the harm in trying? Promoting something positive is not harmful to anyone, not even yourself. Pursue the personal growth and change that you desire. Inspire others to do the same. Remember to be kind. With time you and your ideals will thrive.
NATAL NEPTUNE IN RETROGRADE
Neptune has made who you are and what life is an illusion to even yourself, inside there is a dense fog that does not allow you to see who you really are. Your feelings may muffle what is actually happening, like personal sadness overcasting beautiful moments. And your mind will always be a mind that wanders. Daydreams, fantasies, things that you find beautiful, they swirl around inside and become apart of who you are. And at this point you will have to distinguish between yourself and a dream. Your heart and a mirage. Your mind and enchantment. Life is not always as kind as you may make it out to be. People are not always as soft as you see them as. Some experiences cannot be romanticized. And you have to accept that there is a both a real version of the world and a real version of yourself. Something raw, something unmistakably unkind. The world is not as it seems, people are not as they seem, and you are not as you seem to yourself. Be careful to not let everything that is genuine and true be masked by something that is not reality.
NATAL PLUTO IN RETROGRADE
Your subconscious is one that is promised to go through constant and ruthless transformations. This may produce, an internal inspiration, a glow, that you will be unable to express to the world for many years. You are the ones that will stand out in your generation, that ones that will become famous or infamous, the ones that in time will radiate from deep inside. But before this all comes to light there will be a repeated process of destruction and rebuilding, of death and rebirth. The cycle will continue until Pluto is certain that you have created a version of yourself that is able to grow, that you are enough and strong enough to stand on your own. Do not destroy versions of yourself that are radiant. In the end you will only be harming yourself. If you feel provoked to heal and transform another, act on that feeling because it is something that you possess. Heal others with the constant deaths that you have given yourself, help them rise again with the experience of all of your rebirths. There will be an inner depth that is deeper than any ocean and you will come to learn how you can permanently exist within yourself.
