7:53 PM Eastern, to be exact. I sometimes like to reflect differently on Mercury Retrograde, especially at the beginning!! LOL.

This is my take on this first MR of 2020 -which isn't what a lot of others may claim gloom and doom around communications and technology!

Feb 16 - Transcription

[00:00:00] It's mercury retrograde day. I'm going to debunk some mercury retrograde here, so Fasten your seatbelt. It's time for a Sunday coffee talk. If you're catching this on Sunday, February 16th hi. Welcome to the fun astrology podcast, your unconventional purveyor of astrology here. Thomas Miller. Let's talk about mercury retrograde.

[00:00:26] First of all, it goes retrograde at 7:53 PM tonight Eastern time. Now let's talk about what it is first. Mercury retrograde is when mercury passes the orbit of the earth relative to the sun. The earth, of course, takes 365 days to go around the sun. One time mercury does it in 88. Now, the astrological chart is simply a replication of what's going on in the sky from Earth's perspective.

[00:01:01] So have you ever noticed if you're passing a car and you're both doing about, you're doing about 62 and the other cars doing about 57 and when you get up close to each other, it appears as though the other car is going backward. Or you could use the analogy of two trains. If you've ever written a passenger train and have been in a position where that train was running parallel with another train, but going a little faster, it looks like the other train is going backwards.

[00:01:31] Or maybe you've seen that in a movie. That's the idea of mercury retrograde. It's a perception. Mercury itself is not going backward, nor is any other planet in retrograde. But the Marvel of the skies is so amazing. It is so amazing because it appears to us on earth that it is, and that's reflected in the astrological chart.

[00:01:55] So it's technically that mercury is between the earth and the [00:02:00] sun. Now, this last time, last fall in 2019 during mercury retrograde, you could actually see mercury up against the sun. That only happens every so often, but technically mercury is between the earth and the sun at that point. Now with the earth at 365 days orbit and with mercury at 88 one would think that mercury would cross 4.1 times per year if you do the math.

[00:02:27] But to factor the times that it is in retrograde, so it retraces steps on the astrological wheel and you have to consider the also almost two or three weeks that it takes to get back to where it was when it started appearing to go backwards. So factoring that time in is why we only have three per year.

[00:02:51] Now. What about all the trauma and drama about it disrupting everything in our lives, particularly the things that mercury rules, communication, transportation, flights canceled. Hey, I'm following somebody on. Astro Twitter, the Twitter community of astrology, who was going to get married in Vietnam, I believe sometime this summer.

[00:03:15] I can't remember the details, but had to cancel the wedding because of the coronavirus and canceled the trip during the shadow period while mercury was slowing down. And that's just another little brief parentheses. If you're new to astrology. The planets do not move in any kind of symmetric speed or order around the chart.

[00:03:37] They speed up and slow down. So that's another study into itself. But just realize that it's not all just symmetric, like things are moving at the same speed all the time. They're not. And that's again, the reflection of what's going on in the sky. Now, science doesn't like anything about the conversation and mercury retrograde.

[00:03:57] They science would just debunk the whole [00:04:00] thing is nonsense. I hope that in their debunking, they don't try to write their antagonistic report during a mercury retrograde. It probably will