🪞EPISODE OVERVIEWWelcome to Retrograde City — where time loops, truths unravel, and the cosmos presses pause. In this episode, Mar Alejandra breaks down the 10-month stretch of planetary retrogrades spanning May 2025 to March 2026, covering the astrological, geopolitical, and personal reverberations of each major retrograde.

From Pluto’s excavation of digital power to Jupiter’s ancestral reckoning, this isn’t just celestial chaos — it’s a collective recalibration. This is your roadmap through the retrograde labyrinth, with clear timelines, planetary meanings, global forecasts, and rising-sign-specific horoscopes.

And yes… Mar re-recorded this episode after Mercury Retrograde ate the first take. Fitting.

🌀 IN THIS EPISODE

🔁 Major Retrogrades & Their Impact— Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius (May–Oct): Digital power, surveillance, AI ethics— Neptune Retrograde in Aries–Pisces (Jul–Dec): Illusion dissolves, faith and denial tested— Saturn Retrograde in Aries–Pisces (Jul–Nov): Authority, war, and religion under review— Mercury Retrogrades (Jul & Nov): Media, belief systems, and buried truths resurface— Uranus Retrograde in Gemini–Taurus (Sep–Feb): Innovation, communication, food-tech rewired— Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer (Nov–Mar): Homeland, ancestry, and emotional sovereignty in focus

💥 Key Astro Dates Highlighted

July 18 – Aug 11: Mercury Rx in Leo

Sept 6 – Feb 3: Uranus Rx

Nov 9 – 29: Mercury Rx in Sagittarius & Scorpio

Nov 11 – Mar 11: Jupiter Rx in Cancer

Dec 8 & 14: Mars Squares Saturn & Neptune

Dec 15: Mars enters Capricorn

Mar 16, 2026: All Planets Direct

🌍 Geopolitical Themes

Tech governance and algorithmic control

Collapse of false spiritual idols and nationalist myths

Reexamination of land, culture, and ancestral trauma

Institutional failure and recalibration

Shifts in leadership, media, and narrative power

💫 Philosophical Questions Raised

What do we owe to our creations — even artificial ones?

How do we navigate power, purpose, and truth in an age of collapse and rebirth?

Can we spiritually evolve at the pace we technologically expand?

🔮 RETROGRADE HOROSCOPES BY RISING SIGNMar guides you through personalized forecasts for each rising sign, including what to reflect, reclaim, and release — plus prediction windows and timing cues.

✨ Highlights:

Aries Rising: Redefine your role in community and purpose

Taurus Rising: Build new foundations after internal reconstruction

Gemini Rising: Speak your truth from a reinvented mind

Cancer Rising: Rethink your emotional economy and self-worth

Leo Rising: Strip back the performance, find the soul

Virgo Rising: Heal through rhythm and rest

Libra Rising: Rediscover passion through integrity, not nostalgia

Scorpio Rising: Re-root in legacy and belonging

Sagittarius Rising: Own your message — and your shadow

Capricorn Rising: Release what owns you, inside and out

Aquarius Rising: Meet the you you’ve been becoming

Pisces Rising: Lay to rest the old self and dream forward

📆 THE FINAL ACT: Dec 2025 – Mar 2026

Emotional and spiritual crescendo as Jupiter and Mercury retrograde

Mars squares Saturn + Neptune = exhaustion, delays, and awakening

Capricorn energy returns: structure, action, maturity

March 16, 2026: ALL PLANETS DIRECT — the great forward surge

🪐 Final Message:This isn’t collapse — it’s compost. It’s the sacred pressure that prepares us for soul-aligned evolution. Retrograde City isn’t where things break — it’s where truth is revealed.

🌟 COMING SOONPart 2— Departure from Retrograde City (Early 2026)Includes:

Saturn–Neptune conjunction

Aquarius + Virgo eclipses

Final Uranus exit from Taurus

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