I am wondering what this means, I understand the physics of the situation but does it somehow negate or change the meaning of the influence of the planets.

I ask for selfish reasons as all of my natal outer planets of the chart are "retro-grade" so take my sun (direct) opposition saturn (retrograde)?? is saturn somehow not saturn?? also any thoughts on that oppostition? Does that make me controlling or afraid of control?? Or both? :)

here's an interesting take on the meaning of individual retrograde planets in the chart:

http://www.skyviewzone.com/astrology/retrogradeplanets.htm 

Thanks! I think I will have to process this a bit to understand it. I see it's internalized but don't understand how that affects aspects. It will come to me I hope :)

Has anyone observed a change in direction in progressed charts?  For example, my planets are all direct, but Pluto went retrograde in my progressed chart at age 2 and Saturn went retrograde at 22.

Great questions lolar.  satori's link and the descriptions are very accurate for my retrograde progressed planets.  It's like the ruling themes of those planets shifts, and they gain important emphasis.

I have stationary/retrograde (which it is seems to vary from program to program) Mercury and Saturn. Ret Mercury doesn't bother me- I actually have NO issues when it's retrograde time and thought everyone else was making it up that everything broke down for them for YEARS.

Saturn retrograde, however, is really nasty. It's a voice in your head screaming all the time that you SUCK. My friend who has it too very obviously has this going on with her.

Saturn is my only retrograde natal planet, and I've got that YOU SUCK effect too.  Anne Lamott calls it radio station KFKD, or K-Fucked, broadcasting in stereo round the clock.

Apparently my Uranus, Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter are all in retrograde.

My life is often like an episode of I love Lucy (everything I touch breaks; it's a comedy of errors with very few periods of real stability in an upward swing), who knows?  

My personal planets are direct, but Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune are all retrograde.  I find it interesting that people born with one of the big slow ones retrograde will have a "return" that no one else can -- at least in the case of a Pluto Return and a Neptune Return -- lucky folks get a Uranus return.  My Pluto Return happened when I was 2 weeks old -- as I recall, that was a hellish period of wet diapers and not being able to use words to say I was hungry.

bahahaha!

woot great link, thanks satori. Can't believe i've never seen that page before... looots of insights. ( jupiter retrograde in gemini, in the 5th house using equal houses... 4th House using Koch/Placidus .. and also chiron retrograde)

Here's another nifty link on retrogrades ( which seems to be one of the very few sites which explain the chiron retrograde ) :  http://www.starwolfastrology.com/AstrologicalLibrary/PlanetsInRetrograde.html

jo that link was very informative~

I have so many retrogrades. I fished through all  my friends families charts and I by far hacve the most. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Chiron, Neptune. Only Sun Venus and Mercury aren't. Thisexplains my internal world.