Mercury Retrograde is great for first draft or rehearsal. Not launch! Music writer Kathy McCabe calls it Murky Retrograde. True. It's a murky, messy, muddled time.
Phones, media, the internet, the post. Three times a year, Mercury – the planet which rules information, communication and transportation – appears to go backwards.
Mercury Retrograde does not mean the sky falls on your head. But nor should any astrologer trivialise the chaos that can be caused. The story of RMS Titanic is a case in point.