Something feels off today, and not just your Wi-F or the massive website outage we all experienced recently. Mercury’s pre-retrograde shadow starts now, the sneaky slip before its full reversal on November 9. Astrologers call it the “retroshade,” when wires start to cross and the past drifts a little too close for comfort.

According to The New York Post, the pre-shadow starts at 20°42 of Scorpio and lasts until Mercury stations retrograde in early November. The planet of communication, logic, and travel doesn’t fully regain its footing until December 16, which means the next two months will carry that familiar mix of miscommunication, tech glitches, and existential overthinking that Mercury retrograde has become infamous for.

The pre-shadow is often overlooked, but astrologers say it’s w

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