Additional Planetary References

Singletons or Inferior Functions

These are areas of focus in a chart.  They are areas of stress or of possible neurosis, however these inferior functions suggest that there is more genius potential in the person due to the higher than normal number of planetary modes or elements in one or two other areas.  People can find their missing element or mode through a relationship or by learning to consciously develop the area in question. 

• Michelangelo used his lack of the Earth element in his world acclaimed statue of David. His tremendous ability to sculpt and paint provided the grounding (earth) that he was lacking.  Also there is a possibility of being uncomfortable with the body and a tendency to deal with it through drugs and alcohol:- Rita Hayworth, Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Jackie Gleeson and Richard Burton, or by over-developing the body:- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Atlas and  Johnny Weismuller.
  
  
• Some of the most brilliant authors and poets have a missing or inferior function in Air (thinking, writing and communicating).  Incredible geniuses and great thinkers such as:- Thomas Jefferson, Tolstoy, Edgar Allen Poe, H G Wells, Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw to name just a few.  On another level, there are many actors and they tend to be in one of two categories; either articulate:- Rex Harrison, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov and Richard Burton or those that are known to be less articulate or mumble:- Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford and Jack Nicholson. 

Planetary Retrogrades

General definition of Planets in Retrograde motion:
Inward directed energy in the area defined by each planet.  These are often energies that we were not encouraged to express outwardly when we were young and therefore must develop by ourselves in our own way and in our own time.

Mercury Retrograde:

• Any pressure to communicate when unprepared can result in misunderstandings
• Sometimes feels misunderstood, disconnected or detached from others
• May prefer own company rather than superficial interactions with others
• Mercury Retrograde is often found in the charts of people with dyslexia

Saturn Retrograde:

• Solitary, inclined to negativity and/or depression
• May be overly self-controlled and self-critical, feeling inferior or unworthy which is experienced more inwardly than is apparent on the surface
• Difficulty coping with authority or authority figures
• May unconsciously attempt to preserve a limited psychological image of ones self, without regard to how self-defeating it is.   

 Uranus Retrograde

• Outwardly conventional but inwardly unconventional
• May try to achieve alienation from society
• Highly developed intuition and able to follow own inner direction
• Prone to nervous tension
• May make sudden radical changes for the sake of change

Neptune Retrograde

• Vivid imagination and creative talents
• May lack ability to translate inspiration into action
• Escapist tendencies, can become lost in inner chaos
• Devotional ability, self-sacrificing and martyr tendencies
• Needs meditative retreats and time out to recharge energy

 Pluto Retrograde

• Potential to suppress anger however could have explosive tendencies
• Self-destructive potential by turning energy inward
• Psychological guardedness
• Possibility of being withdrawn, private and reclusive

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