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    Default Mercury Retrograde..

    Has anyone read about this?

    The swift moving planet Mercury goes into reverse gear more frequently than any other planet, about 3 or 4 times a year. The dreaded "Mercury Retrograde" disrupts the thinking mind, communications, the ability to come to agreements with others, decision making, etc. It's best not to make important decisions while Mercury is moving backwards, and all plans should be reviewed later to find the gaping holes in logic that often creep in.
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    Is Mercury in retrograde?? That explains a lot the past week or so...

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    Yes, according to my charts. It just went into retro yesterday,but the days leading up can be screwed up as well. It will be retro for 3 wks.


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    LOL... wow... I've already noticed it's effects... oh goody for the weeks to come (damn... and my boyfriend's sister's wedding is coming up too!... it's already a wacky group of people!)
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    Mercury Retrograde

    The all-purpose astrological excuse

    Among the many things that interest me are some that have—how can I put this delicately?—dubious claims to authenticity........



    http://itotd.com/articles/271/mercury-retrograde/
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    Retrograde, schmetrogade.

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    If you are referring to the appearance of a planet apparently reversing its direction when viewed from the earth, this happens all the time to the appearance of all the other planets in our solar system.

    It happens because the planets move along their orbits, and we move on our orbit, so sometimes the planet LOOKS as if it is reversing direction. But it isn't; its just on the other side of the sun going the opposite way compared to us, traveling happily along its orbit.

    Mercury, closest to the Sun and having the shortest orbit, moves in apparent retrograde motion to the Earth more than any other planet.

    The explanation for retrograde motion was one of the things that proved that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system. It is a much simpler explanation than the crystal spheres with more crystal spheres rolling upon them.

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    Sorry, I was wrong.
    It goes retro Oct. 12, for 3 weeks. Thanks.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bridgette View Post
    Retrograde, schmetrogade.
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    Quote Originally Posted by whirlerz View Post
    Sorry, I was wrong.
    It goes retro Oct. 12, for 3 weeks. Thanks.

    Wrong about the retrograde, but yeah its been a strange rough week, with communication difficulties, and now it is end of the month at my company, a fuckton of deskside support issues next week and me running that mess. I better hit the ground with rocket skates blasting and stay on caffeine, and sugar all week.

    So where can I get some Kenya and Sumatra coffee expressed to me? Maybe a double long espresso. Do you think the staff at a starbucks could figure that out? The don't even know what small is....
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    I will be getting married during this retrograde.... thats interesting



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    Good luck. Just double check everything, just to be sure^


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    Quote Originally Posted by UtahMike View Post
    If you are referring to the appearance of a planet apparently reversing its direction when viewed from the earth, this happens all the time to the appearance of all the other planets in our solar system.
    There are some good anims here showing exactly what is happening:

    http://www.lasalle.edu/~smithsc/Astr...retrograd.html

    Of course we now know that the retrograde motion is an illusion, based on the the mis-assumption that the earth (and human's and their ego) are at the center of the Universe. Still, early astronomers were able to very accurately (although not perfectly) predict the position of the planets far into the future even though their math was far more complex then needed.

    The problem of course is that once you realize the earth isn't at the center of our solar system (or our Universe), the apparent retrogade motion (which is actually kind of creepy if it was truly retrograde motion) stops being interesting. What seemed like creepy motions of the planets suddenly becomes an obvious duh, a simple illusion.

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