What is Mercury retrograde?

When your aircraft reservation is mixed, or your voicemail goes to Fritz, you may have started to hear an unusual apology. "Well, not Mercury retrograde? What can you expect?"

What is Mercury retrograde and why does it have such a bad reputation?

When it was believed that the stars were equally equidistant from Earth, built into a hard shell that moved above us, the planets required some explanation. They did not stay in the same positions with respect to solid stars, but wandered through the constellation, which became a zodiac.

If it wasn't confusing enough, they would turn regularly and return as they came for a while before they turned again to move in the same direction with the rest of the stellar field. When they do it, they are in "retrograde movement" and move against the influx of all stars and other planets. Therefore, the Mercury retrograde refers to the appearance of the "back-peddling".

Now that the relative positions of the Earth, the planet and the stars are understood, it is easy to see that behindThe Earth is also in motion, often the planets appear to turn to the sky. But when astrology was the main science, all planetary retrograd-including Mercury retrograde-is more mystical meanings.

Since Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun and its orbit is relatively short, there are more cases of mercury retrograde than any other planet that reverse its direction three or four times a year. And because Mercury was a mythological figure of the messenger of the gods, Mercury retrograde considers mystically minded to destroy human communication.

Astrological associations with each planet associate the mercury of retrograde with fouls in conjunction, computers and other communication activities. This Notion moved to the mainstream as the law of Nouveau Murphy, the shoulder shre, "who knows?" So when your boss asks why you didn't answer his e -mail or your document was onmislead, check Efmeris and then (if appropriate) the guilt of the Mercury retrograde. Sometimes it makes the same sense as anything else.