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Here’s Why We Blame Mercury’s Retrograde When Things Are Going Wrong
Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
“Don’t start anything when Mercury is in retrograde. A large communications organization notes that magnetic storms, disrupting messages, are prolonged when Mercury appears to be going backward. Mercury, of course, is the planet associated with communication.
” “As Earth (blue) passes a superior planet, such as Mars (red), the superior planet will temporarily appear to reverse its motion across the sky.”
So read an April 1979 issue of The Baltimore Sun, but the practice of blaming astrology in general – and Mercury retrograde specifically – began long before that (as far back as the mid-18th century, actually). British agricultural almanacs at the time, which helped farmers know when to plant, noted the event, and 19th century publications like The Astrologer’s Magazine and The Science of the Stars both connected Mercury retrograde with heavy rainfall.
It began to be associated with ill omen, and since the Roman god Mercury was said to govern travel, commerce, financial wealth and…
