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Astrology

Mona Reyes · Astrology
Mercury in enhanced color, photographed by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft during its first flyby in January 2008 — craters and the bright interior of the Caloris basin across a gray-brown world that never reverses in its orbit.
Astrology

Mercury Never Reverses in Its Orbit. Retrograde Is an Apparent Motion Seen From Earth, and an 88-Day Orbit Brings It Back Three or Four Times a Year

Mercury keeps moving forward on its orbit the whole time, and from Earth its path against the stars appears to slow, stop and run backward for roughly three weeks, three or four times a year. The astrological tradition reads those stretches as a prompt to review, revise and back things up — a mirror for an audit, never a sentence of fate.

By Mona Reyes