For three weeks, we can blame every Internet outage, petty fight and canceled brunch plan on a spinning rock 48 million miles away. Unless you live under a hunk of fallen meteorite, you’ve probably heard about Mercury retrograde, the quarterly mayhem that occurs when the messenger planet passes the Earth, appearing from our vantage point to go backward. I’ve heard about Mercury Retrograde, but are there other planet retrogrades? Retrogrades may not be the best times to begin something new, but they can be stellar phases for tying up loose ends or giving a stalled mission a second chance to succeed. Think of the prefix “re” when planning the best use of a retrograde. This is an illusion, but it’s a bit like two trains passing at different speeds-one appears to be going backwards. From our vantage point on Earth, it is almost as if the planet is moving in reverse. When a planet passes the Earth in its orbit (or vice versa), it is said to be going retrograde. ![]() Periodically, one will outpace the other-and that’s when retrograde mayhem breaks loose. What’s really happening? Well, the Earth is completing its orbit around the Sun faster or slower than other planets outside its orbit. You know those times when everything goes haywire, and you can’t figure out why? Look up, stargazer: A planet could be retrograde-meaning that from the vantage point of Earth, it appears to be spinning backward.
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