It’s often the case that you don’t even need to know that Mercury is retrograde, because the signs just pop up out of nowhere all over your life. Technology fails for no perceivable reason. That chat with your boss goes completely sideways and you’re left wondering exactly where you went wrong. Your flight is canceled and your phone crashes and everyone, literally everyone, seems just a bit more insane than usual.

But often there’s another major clue that Mercury is doing its backwards stuff: People from the past come out of the woodwork, usually people you have no real desire to reconnect with. As the planet of technology, intellect and especially communication, Mercury often inspires people to use their words when it is retrograde, and in ways that are often confusing to say the least

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