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Mercury Retrograde Cannot Actually Break Your Phone but Here Is Why You Keep Believing It Does
Three or four times a year, Mercury appears to move backward across the sky from Earth's perspective. Astrologers say this disrupts communication, technology, travel, and contracts. Scientists say it's an optical illusion caused by orbital mechanics. Both of these things are true. What's interesting is why so many people find the pattern useful anyway.
Mercury Retrograde Cannot Actually Break Your Phone but Here Is Why You Keep Believing It Does
Three or four times a year, Mercury appears to move backward across the sky from Earth's perspective. Astrologers say this disrupts communication, technology, travel, and contracts. Scientists say it's an optical illusion caused by orbital mechanics. Both of these things are true. What's interesting is why so many people find the pattern useful anyway.
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