Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you’re hanging out in social media over the next month or so, you’ll probably see people losing their shit about Mercury Retrograde. This planetary phenomenon has an undeserved reputation for being Trouble with a capital T, but that’s because it’s often wildly misunderstood.  Why all the fuss? Retrograde describes the motion of a planet as seen from the perspective of Earth, where it appears to turn around and go backwards in the sky for a time. Of course, it’s not really going backwards around the Sun, it just seems that way to us.  Astrologically, any retrograde offers us an opportunity to reflect on, reassess, rethink, review anything to do with that planet’s area of expertise.