Whenever Mercury’s movement in the sky reverses itself, due to an astronomical phenomenon called Apparent Retrograde Motion, things generally get screwy here on earth. Image courtesy of Wikipedia In olden times, when Astrologers were doing their best to correlate events on the human plane with the movements of the Wandering Stars, Mercury was singularly wacky. Like the other Wandering Stars (or “planets,” as we call them now) Mercury did not occupy one fixed place in the sphere of [...]