ask jeanna: genre experimentation and retrograde planets

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A few announcements before we get into the latest batch of questions from the astrology for writers Discord!

First, there are only 8 writing routine birth chart reading slots left for the year (all in late August/early Sept). Jump on it!

Second! I am (finally) offering my electional astrology services to the public. Electional astrology is simply using astrology to find the best time(s) for both important and mundane life events. Folks come to me to elect things like weddings, going out on submission with their book, launching a business, and more. It’s literally my favorite thing to do with astrology, mostly because I’ve seen it work time and time again (and one of today’s questions is essentially an electional question). Here’s what some clients have had to say:

This literally changed the trajectory of my career! We chatted about submission dates for my new book proposal and selected Feb 22nd. The proposal went out as planned and we had an offer within an hour. The book later went to auction and I landed with one of my dream publishers. Planning that date with Jeanna gave me so much motivation and confidence to push forward when I doubted the writing, and I'm so grateful for it. — Nikki S.

Jeanna helped my girlfriend and I set the date for our June wedding. We both have a lot of air energy in our chart and got engaged in Gemini season, and we asked her to help us find a date with lots of light energy. We settled on a date with a party vibe Leo moon and, for the next day, a lazy void-of-course moon. She also helped us avoid a heavy Venus-Saturn square. She explained everything so easily, it really helped us make an annoying decision very simple. The wedding itself was transcendent, with so much presence bursting out of our hearts, and shared by all. We did three costume changes. Thank you Leo moon, thank you Jeanna, thank you life, thank you love. — Natalie

If you’re interested in using an astrologer’s services to plan your next major life event, learn more here.

Read on for today’s questions, which have to do with using transits for genre experimentation as well as natal retrograde planets.

Any recommendations for using transits to experiment with new forms/genres? 

Before we proceed, if you don’t know what a transit is, read this (for the answer to “what is a transit?”) first.