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1) It's fairly uncommon to have all the outer planets retrograde at once, though I don't happen to know how often it happens; it'll likely happen in bursts, since it'll take a while for the slow-moving planets to scatter so their retrograde periods are at different times.

2) Things will be more sluggish, certainly, but retrogrades aren't that big a deal. In traditional astrology, they're just an ordinary debility, not the bugbear they've been turned into by too many modern astrologers.

3) It's not mentioned in any mundane text known to me.

1) I'm curious about this, because Jupiter-Pluto are retrograde in my natal chart, and I was curious about how common it is. Based on the ephemeris search engine on Astro-Seek, it looks like it happens for a period of some months for a couple years in row every decade or two.

https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/ephemeris-search-engine-astrology-planet-positions

Thanks for this. I'd be interested to know if that continues over the long term -- say, over ten centuries or so.

a) How do you read retrogrades in a natal chart?

b) My natal chart has all of the planets other than Venus retrograde. Do you know if there's significance if there are multiple retrogrades in a natal chart?

Did you miss the above question?

Yes -- that happens tolerably often when a question is put into the middle of a thread. The answer to both of these is that I'm not a natal astrologer -- I specialize in mundane and electional astrology -- and so I'd recommend you consult someone who specializes in natal astrology.

Based on your answers, I'm going to venture a prediction purely for test purposes.

a) The Russo-Ukraine war will slog on without any decisive developments until Uranus goes retrograde on August 19. Then there will be some surprises on the battlefield, in diplomacy, or in economic factors (depending on aspects).

b) During the Mars retrograde 10/30/22-1/12/23, or within a week after he goes direct again, there will be decisive military developments.

c) During the Mercury retrograde, or during a few days after he goes direct again, a scandal or an intelligence failure will result in a political leader being removed from office, or a military leader's demotion, with results that have a major impact on the conduct of the war.

I'm doing this just for practice. I picked the war as the field of events because I'm paying attention to it and it is important. Because the Mars and Mercury retrogrades that fall within the retrograde periods of multiple slower planets are brief and do not overlap with each other, they serve as punctuation or a change of musical key. If there are general trends during the duration of the retrogrades of the slew of slow moving planets, and then something especially interesting occurs during the Mercury or Mars retrograde, we can perhaps attribute it to their influence.

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