The Mercury retrograde phenomenon is associated with misfortune by some - but does it really affect us?
Sadicka, an astrologer and spiritual life coach, is telling her 5,000 Instagram followers to watch out for technology issues, trouble communicating with people and even car accidents, ahead of the planet Mercury going into retrograde from 5 August.
People have observed Mercury going into retrograde for thousands of years, and many believers in astrology link it to an increase in personal problems.Lina Sahhab, a 42-year-old who works for a non-profit, tells the BBC that she once believed superstitions surrounding Mercury were just that. While astrology is now considered a pseudoscience, in the ancient civilisations in which it was first conceived, people needed ways to help them predict things like the timing of rainfall, temperature, wind and sunlight – and doing so was a survival skill.
“It is only in the 20th century, in the astrology of the English-speaking world, that it came to mean ‘delays’ in particular,” says the astrology expert, adding that this interpretation took over in the 1980s. If science suggests Mercury retrograde may not have any bearing on our lives, why do so many people still turn to the stars for answers?
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