Be warned, Mercury is in retrograde. I’m not one who believes all that much in astrology, but hey, it’s a great excuse if things get messed up for you in some way in the next couple of weeks. Besides, I really like tricksters of all sorts. Just hope this doesn’t mess up my own travel plans. We’ll see.
At 05:01 UT (Universal Time), on Thursday, May 7th, 2009, Mercury the cosmic trickster turns retrograde at 1°44′ Gemini, in the sign of the Twins, sending communications, travel, appointments, mail and the www into a general snarlup! The retro period begins some days before the actual turning point (as Mercury slows) and lasts for three weeks or so, until May 31, when the Winged Messenger reaches his direct station. At this time he halts and begins his return to direct motion through the zodiac.
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“When the moon is in the seventh house,
and Jup-It-Ter aligns with Mars.
Then peace will rule the Pla-a-net . . .”
I have yet to figure out what “retrograde” means when it comes to planetary orbits. All the planets orbit the same direction all the time. Is it like when the train smoothly pulls out of the station, and the train next to it appears to be the one moving?
Yep, it’s the view from Earth of Mercury’s orbit. It was one of the basic clues to early astronomers (as far back as the Greeks, actually) that the Earth was not the center of the solar system. Ptolemy invented a complicated system to keep Earth in the middle, but Copernicus figured out it must be the sun later on.
Heresy!
[I attempted to post the one word comment, a prompt came up telling me it was too short?! WTF?]
Huh….