Reimagining Mercury Retrogrades

No more Merc RX histrionics please. It’s going to be okay.

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I am not a Mercury retrograde (RX) doomsayer. So much of the narrative around this thrice annual event is a bit dramatic. When you account for Mercury’s shadow phases, where the events and topics of your specific retrograde start building up, breaking down, and resolving, you can see that each of these period is a few weeks long. Mercury will be…