Mercury – rising, retrograde or runaway?
…a completely random blog post that has nothing whatsoever to do with work, business or anything serious…
Well, Mercury is back to his old tricks again.
Do any of you remember back in February when there were so many problems on the Internet? Those of you who are on Twitter might remember when it went crazy for a few days. Well, as it turns out, the planet Mercury was in retrograde back then (retrograde meaning the time when it appears to be moving backwards from our vantage point on Earth). It seems to be a widely accepted explanation that when things like this happen in cyberspace, poor Mercury frequently gets the blame, especially if it is retrograde. In fact, every time I hear someone going through some sort of communication breakdown, I also hear people asking, “Is Mercury in retrograde again?”
So is there anything to this Mercury stuff, or is it all a story we use to explain away our own frustrations with technology? Continue Reading…
