“There’s no scientific evidence that any planet’s apparent retrograde motion affects you at all,” Howells writes. Meanwhile, the Farmer’s Almanac suggests that while Mercury is in ...

This belief in the effects of Mercury retrograde dates back to ancient times when people observed the apparent backward motion of Mercury and attributed it to negative influences. Thankfully ...

Outer Planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto): Their retrograde motion is common and tends to shape generational shifts rather than individual struggles. However, these placements can amplify intuition ...

In fact, the word retrograde means “moving in a backward direction.” Scientifically speaking, the planet isn’t slowing or moving in reverse. It’s an optical illusion—the motion just ...