Well, hello everyone, and welcome. My name's Amanda Poole Walsh. I'm the

founder of Astrology Hub, and I am here with the Merlin Rick Levine, and we've

decided that we needed a title for our steady Friday dates. So Rick came up with something awesome.

We'll ask you what you think, but we're thinking to call this the Cosmic Connection.

So every Friday you'll have a little,

you can grab your tea or your glass of wine or whatever it is,

and join us for the Cosmic Connection.

And today, we're gonna be talking about retrogrades.

So Rick, go ahead.

Well, before we move into talking about retrogrades,

if we're going to call this the cosmic connection, we should talk about the word

cosmic. Yeah. Because most people don't understand that it is actually a word from the Greek and in ancient Greek often words meant different things at the same time but unlike

modern English where we have words that can mean two different things,

those two different things don't have any connection.

But in the Greek realm, they did.

And the word Cosmos actually meant order,

like the order to things. When we think about cosmology it's the it's how everything is is in order and so the word

Cosmos means order but it also meant beauty and so to the Greeks the fact that something was in order or was

ordered was in itself inherently beautiful.

Now the reason why that's so important to understand

is like many words, we've lost the meanings of the words based upon layers of cultural biases, if you will.

And so we have the word microcosm which is the tiny order and macrocosm which is the large order

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