About Michael Erlewine
Before and Behind
What is interesting here is the fact that if we consider
the helio position of a planet as being where that planet
actually is, in fact, in its journey thru the zodiac around
the Sun (which is a fact), then the geo position (except
at conjunction/opposition) is ALWAYS either ahead of
this helio position or behind it; in other words, the
geocentric position for any planet runs for a time ahead
of the helio position, stops in the sky, pauses, turns
retrograde, and begins to move backward through the
zodiac—over the ground it just covered. It continues
backward until it crosses the helio position, and, still
moving back (and now behind the helio position), it then
comes to another slow stop; next, it begins to go
forward again, finally catching up to and passing the
helio position. This is what is called the retrograde loop.
The heliocentric motion of the planet is always forward
and the planet position never stops or wavers. It is the