April Prompts for Retrograde Season

8 prompts for April on choosing progress, regression, and alternate routes

From the jump, I know basically nothing about astrology; I prefer to be a kind of selective voyeur in the glittery winds of the cosmos. So my best understanding of “retrograde” is essentially like…it’s a real drag.

From Latin retrogradus, the word itself breaks down to retro (back) + grade (step). Or, to move backward, to regress, to return where we’ve already been.

Three Takes:

1. One of my husband’s least favorite things is retracing his steps—the hike that is one way up, turn around, take the same exact path down.

2. Yesterday at dinner an old friend described her perception of life as an eternal circle—the characters and plots shift, the locations change, we pick up new things as we go, discard a bit here and there…but ultimately return to the person we’ve always been.

3. As a kid I loved this TV show called “Legends of the Hidden Temple.” It was…kind of like Survivor-meets-an escape room for children? Essentially teams of tweens would have to cross fake moats and find clay urns hidden at the b…