Remy traces to the Latin Remigius, likely built on remigare, to row, though popular use has long linked the name loosely to remedium, remedy, giving it an added association with healing. Between the two threads runs a sense of steady, effortful care -- work done to move something forward or to mend it.
Planets do manifest greater and worser evils when they are stationary, than when they are retrograde. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)