Believe it or not, it isn’t just, oh, I don’t know, a certain collapsing empire making you aggressive: Mercury retrograde has been wreaking havoc on the most nonnegotiable areas of life. That includes communication, transportation, technology, and, of course, sending your ex regrettable texts in the middle of the night.

But if Mercury retrograde only lasts three weeks, why does it feel like the chaos looms and lingers for … much longer? Take, for instance, this Mercury retrograde, which started on November 9 — weren’t we all navigating perpetual tension headaches a few weeks before then, too? You can blame a little something called retroshade for that. Let me explain.

What is retroshade?

Technically speaking, retroshade refers to a planet’s “retrograde shadow period,” which occu

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