Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

sotonye wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:39 pm If retrogradation is just an illusion and not really anything more, wouldn't the angularity and aspects made with a retrograde planet be illusory too? Since its apparent position is not its real one?

Jim Eshelman wrote: Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:50 am Geocentrically (the perspective from which astrology is generally practiced and dependent), its position is its real position.

Seeing it from a different perspective is no more real than seeing it from this perspective.

Jupiter Sets at Dawn wrote: Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:26 am If you type "retrograde" in the search box (upper right of any page on solunars,) you'll get 5 pages of hits. If you go to the last page, and page forward from there, you'll see the posts we deemed most useful when we moved the forum over to the new site. They're all dated early May two years ago. I think the second to the last page covers a lot of bits from Donald Bradley's columns.

Jim Eshelman wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:40 pm I can't discern that it is. In fact, I'm not sure ive ever discerned it honestly in any condition, though it does have a weak statistical discernment (the groups were all vocational.)