Three or four times a year, Mercury appears to slide backwards across the sky. Nothing in the heavens actually reverses — it is a trick of perspective, two orbits drifting at different speeds. Astrology reads that pause as a signal: revise, don’t launch.
The practical translation is boring and useful. Back up your files. Re-read the contract. Text the friend instead of assuming. Retrograde rewards the people who finish old sentences, not the ones who start new paragraphs.
When it ends — November 13 this season — the fog lifts quickly. The decisions you postponed will still be waiting, and you will make them with better light.
Want to see it on your own calendar? Today’s sky lists every upcoming event, computed from real ephemeris positions.