It really does explain quite a bit.  If you are not familiar with it, retrograde is the apparent motion of a planet in a direction opposit...

It's that strange time of year...   ...when tantalizing wisps of warmer air whisper to the frozen ground that it's time to go and ee...

I apologize for being so very long gone.  I do have a very good reason.  Trust me.  And not because I am a lawyer.  Life has just veered off...

  When the Hibiscus finally dance having patiently waited their turn, When the Foxglove nod sleepily in the warmth of the afternoon sun, And...