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What Is Mercury Retrograde?

The Quick Start Version -- If you know a bit about astrology, you probably heard the term, “Mercury Retrograde.”  Now, what the heck is that, you ask. It’s no big mystery and the term pretty much says it -- it just means that Mercury appears to slow down and temporarily reverse direction. It doesn’t actually do that, but seems to -- a bit of cosmic sleight of hand! More specifically, retrograde simply means that a planet looks like it is going backwards in its longitudinal direction.  It is only an apparent motion as the planet really keeps making its orbit around the Sun at a steady speed as does Earth. However, from our position and perspective on Earth it seems as if Mercury is going backwards. How Often Does a Retrograde Happen and other questions --  .  Read more.... (file requires Adobe Reader)