Retrograde Motion Quotes

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have on human events? A planet is so far away that its gravitational pull on a new-born baby would be swamped by the gravitational pull of the doctor's paunch.

In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.