The Backward Glance
Mercury Retrograde
3 times per year · ~3 weeks (plus shadow periods)
Mercury moves backward through the sky. The cultural panic has it wrong — it’s a review season, not a disaster zone.
Category
retrograde
Frequency
3 times per year
Duration
~3 weeks (plus shadow periods)
Keywords
reviewrevisereconsidercommunication glitchreturn
Planets in play
The body this transit centres on. Open each to read its reference.
In progress
Long-form reference for Mercury Retrograde is being written.
The skeleton above covers the core reference — category, frequency, duration, keywords. Deeper sections on how mercury retrogradeinteracts with each house in your chart, common misreadings, and the practical “what to do with it” layer will fill in as they’re written.
In the meantime — run your birth chart to see where mercury retrograde lands in your sky.
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