Pluto is retrograde

Review · revise · reconnect

Mercury rules communication, contracts, schedules, transit, and small daily decisions. Tradition treats its retrograde as a period for editing already-begun work rather than launching new work — the classical advice "don’t sign, don’t launch, do retake" comes from here. The famous one. 3–4 times per year, ~24 days each.

Reconsider relationships and values

Venus rules love, beauty, money, and what we value. Its retrograde returns to relationships and financial arrangements that haven’t been fully processed — ex-partners reappear, recent purchases look different, aesthetic choices want revisiting. ~18 months apart, ~40 days each.

Redirect anger and drive

Mars rules action, anger, desire, and assertion. Its retrograde slows external progress and turns the question inward: are you fighting the right battles? Frustration is the signal. ~2 years apart, ~70 days each.

Re-examine beliefs and growth

Jupiter rules expansion, philosophy, and luck. Its retrograde is less stressful than the inner-planet retrogrades; it asks you to internalize growth rather than chase it outwardly. Yearly, ~4 months each.

Restructure responsibilities

Saturn rules discipline, structure, and consequence. Its retrograde is the year’s long audit of commitments — which structures still serve, which have become cages. Yearly, ~4.5 months each.

Re-integrate sudden insight

Uranus rules breakthroughs and disruption. Its retrograde lets sudden insights from earlier in the year settle into actual changes you can live with. Yearly, ~5 months each.

Recover from illusion

Neptune rules dreams, imagination, and dissolution. Its retrograde clears the fog — illusions get noticed, addictions face daylight, art that was vague gains form. Yearly, ~5 months each.

Re-claim power

Pluto rules deep transformation and what is hidden. Its retrograde is the deep-archaeology season — buried material surfaces to be metabolized. Yearly, ~5.5 months each.