Your life can improve quickly and dramatically if you apply the suggestions given here. By raising your aims and expectations you can obtain a deeper self-understanding and thereby resolve your inner conflicts and contradictions. Truly, a foundation for self-understanding and enlightenment. Within each chart there is opportunity for growth and most of all free will. The Universe and everything in it is constantly moving.
Nothing ever stands still.
Their influence may be altered. When someone is born with a planet in a retrograde position and it goes direct there can be major changes. For example, retrograde Mercury at birth could hinder communication but then no longer be a hindrance when Mercury goes direct. In this author's experience, who lived for most of my life with a retrograde Jupiter. When it went finally went direct, my finances flowed smoother.