What Is Mercury Retrograde and Should I Be Worried?

Mercury retrograde is not the disaster the internet made it. Mercury goes retrograde three to four times a year for roughly three weeks at a time. Retrograde means it appears to be moving backwards from our perspective on earth — it is not actually moving backwards, it is a trick of orbital speed and position. Mercury rules communication, technology, travel, contracts, and information, and when it retrogrades these areas of life slow down, glitch, and ask to be reviewed. Your emails get lost. Your flights get delayed. The conversation you thought was finished is not finished. The contract has a clause you missed. The ex texts. Should you be worried? No. Should you be paying attention? Yes. Mercury retrograde is not a punishment — it is a review period. Things come back up because they were not actually done. The chaos of mercury retrograde almost always traces back to something that needed more attention the first time around