https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/

Venus is gorgeous out there at the moment as it makes its final approach to overtaking the Earth and will be visible towards the end of next month within range of the camera. In old terms, it will be in retrograde motion as it moves faster than the annual change in the position of the stars insofar as that is a product of the Earth's orbital motion.

The physics community always thought or perhaps never knew that Isaac Newton created the idea of absolute/relative space and motion in his idiosyncratic version of direct/retrograde motions as a resolution and at complete variance with the original resolution.

"For to the Earth planetary motions appear sometimes direct, sometimes
stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the Sun they are
always seen direct,..." Newton

The emergence of early 20th-century relativity did not help matters as the late 17th-century version was a step outside interpretative astronomy and how it was practised in the era of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. Practitioners of Newton's experimental agenda never had a clue what those terms represented so today, even when it has been explained in great detail, few people have an idea of the relevance of anything let alone one thing.

It would seem like throwing good information after bad but that was never the purpose of this information sharing.