I came across this thread :
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80222
Vedic astrology views retrograde as a planet at its brightest; and Robert Hand as a planet acting "differently".
Some also speak about "old souls" when there are many retrograde in a chart.
I agree with all. Thanks to that inward energy, one can think and ponder over his experiences and emotions. This is how it allows to "understand" others easily or assess a past experience.
For example, its the same mechanism than adults and children (remember when, as a child, you would do something forbidden and your parents always seem to know and find out when you really thought you planned it so well nobody would see it or find out about it?
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Well, parents were kids before the kids obviously.. and this is how they got to live that same above experience when they wondered exactly the same thing (how did the parents find out when my plan was so perfect?). Adults know because they have lived it before.
And as adult, they now react "differently", they see what they missed when they were younger living that same experience. They "see" differently the same given situation (and all the obvious clues kids miss). And that make them brighter: they have both views now... when they only had one before.
Same, I feel retrograde people, understand without necessarily having to personally experience a situation. And thanks to that, they "know" and have that 360 vision of a situation.
This is what could explain why they are thought of as "older souls", why Vedic sees such planets as being at their brightest and why Hand says they act "differently". Maybe they are all right.
what do you think?