Mercury’s retrograde is the most common to be associated with chaos. Well, according to the Farmers’ Almanac, the planets each rule a different aspect of life, and when they appear to move backward, their positive influence on those aspects is believed to be disrupted. Jupiter to be closest to Earth in 60 years. So why does the idea of retrograde bring with it a sense of doom and gloom? With heliocentrism, explaining retrograde motion was simple. It’s worth noting that one of the reasons heliocentrism replaced geocentrism (the notion that the Earth is in the center of the Solar System) is that geocentrism couldn’t explain the retrograde motion of planets. (This thought experiment works with different modes of transportation, from walking to cycling to flying in airplanes.) As the faster car overtakes the slower, it will appear (from the vantage point of the faster car) as though the slower car stops, then moves backward, even though its actual speed has not changed.
One travels slightly faster than the other. Imagine two cars traveling in the same direction in two different lanes. We can actually see this effect on Earth. Notice how Mars seems from Earth to travel in a loop.
“It just appears to do so because of the relative positions of the planet and Earth and how they are moving around the Sun.” Graphic showing the retrograde motion of Mars. “It is not REAL in that the planet does not physically start moving backwards in its orbit,” NASA states.
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