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As you probably already know because people are very, very fond of saying it: Mercury is currently retrograde, and will be until May 22, potentially causing everyone various types of gratuitous distress and inconvenience. A few NBD examples from my last few days: Forgetting my phone or subway card at home when it’s too late to turn back for them; reaching for a single piece of produce at the grocery store and triggering a landslide of bell peppers to the floor; spending more than eight hours in the car on what should have been a four-hour road trip, etc.?and these are some of the more harmless Merc Retro experiences I’ve had in life.
Clearly, Mercury spinning backwards instead of forward has mysterious, often shitty consequences. But we haven’t even told you the best news yet: There are three other planets that are also currently retrograde?Mars, Saturn, and Pluto?and if you believe in such things, they’re probably affecting your mojo as well. (One decent piece of news is that number would have been four, if Jupiter hadn’t gone direct yesterday.) We talked to astrologer Katrin Haiba, of the horoscope site Cosmic Wave Astrology, to find out WTF all this retrograde madness actually means and how best to deal until the planets right themselves again.
Mercury retrograde
First, Haiba gave us a crash course in what it means when any planet goes retrograde: “Technically, it means the planet appears to be g...