Things don’t break more often during retro. Science already checked.
🩹💥Let’s rip the band-aid off: Mercury retrograde does not cause your printer to jam, your Zoom link to expire, or your ex to text you at 2:14 a.m. (Those were all going to happen anyway, champ.)
👉🏼The truth? Science already crunched the numbers. Astronomers ran the math, and the universe is not suddenly hurling cosmic banana peels into your path three times a year. 👈🏼
So why do weird things feel like they pile up during retro? That’s your brain’s selective attention at work. Once someone tells you “watch out for retro chaos,” your brain goes full raccoon mode, digging through every shiny inconvenience and pinning it to Mercury like it’s on a cosmic corkboard. 🧠📌
Sorry to ruin the suspense, but the “retro broke my laptop” excuse doesn’t hold water. (Although, if you spill water on your laptop, sure, blame Mercury. That feels better.)
TL;DRetro™
Retrograde doesn’t cause the glitches — it just gives us a permission slip to notice them. And honestly? That’s half the fun.