What does retrograde actually mean?
A planet appears to move backwards against the stars for a stretch, because the Earth is overtaking it or being overtaken on the inside track. Nothing actually reverses. In a birth chart, a retrograde planet is read as turned inward, working over its subject privately before showing it. Mercury does this three or four times a year, so it is the one people notice.
In the reference library: Apparent retrograde motion: the geometry, a worked example, and the history
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