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Venus Retrograde in the Birth Chart. A podcast episode interview for Mary English

℞ Podcast episode: Venus Retrograde in your birth chart. My 2nd time on Mary English 's podcast: Learn Astrology with Mary English: episode 266 (duration: 1 hour:05 minutes) Topics: How the interior planets ☿ go retrograde. A quick reminder how a retrograde planet works. Venus retrograde in the natal chart - what is it like? [...]

Retrograde Planets and their Number in the Natal Chart

Why do planets go retrograde? The physics, the meaning of retrogrades in astrological chart and why the number of them in Natal Chart is important? Statistical research through centuries, unusual case studies of extraordinary people with many retrogrades and lots of graphics. This article contains the basic outline of almost all facets of my study [...]

illustrated Astrology

illustrated astrological narrations #1   The planet called Saturn had ended it's retrograde motion 2 days ago (on July/20 2014). In the sign of Scorpio, within the confines ruled by Merkury it's retrograde time was devoted to internal considerations. As the "Saturn" finally had came back to its "normal" direct motion, he desires to speak [...]

Hermes (Mercury) as the Transporter of Dead Souls and Moira in the Hellenistic Astrology

The picture is a pencil drawing from 1897, depicting god Hermes taking the souls of the heroes into the depths of Hades, by the Polish modernist artist, Staniław Wyspiański [pronounced stah-NIECE-wuf viss-PYAN-skee], an illustration from the Homer's "Iliad". Colorized by myself. The planet Mercury when I wrote the first version of this text was between [...]