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Retrograde

The apparent backwards motion of a planet — a scheduled pause, not a reversal.

Three or four times a year, Mercury appears to slide backwards across the sky. Nothing in the heavens actually reverses; it is a trick of perspective, two orbits drifting at different speeds.

Astrology reads the pause as a signal: revise, don't launch. Retrograde rewards finishing old sentences, not starting new paragraphs.

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