If you’ve felt your schedule slipping into oblivion and attempts to communicate beginning to crash, you can probably blame it on the current Mercury retrograde period. It began on Nov. 9 and continues through Nov. 29, as the planet of mental affairs backtracks over its recent steps through the zodiac, causing all sorts of logistical matters to hit delays, roadblocks, or general chaos mode. There’s a reason these retrogrades have a reputation for being obnoxious, but a few lucky zodiac signs will be able to avoid most of the drama this time around.

Mercury in astrology rules everything from thinking and communicating to transportation and tech devices, so this fleet-footed planet has its hand in many of the moving parts that keep people’s days on track. When it retrogrades, it’s common for

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