This week, as retrograde Mercury rolls back through Cancer, the year 1776 comes around to go around. That’s because Thursday is the anniversary of the USA’s Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It also because Mercury was retrograde on that historical date very much as it is now.
In 1776 Mercury was retrograde from June 28 to July 22, entirely through watery Cancer. This year, Mercury is retrograde from June 26 to July 20, entirely through watery Cancer.
The similarities do not stop there. 1776 was one of those seldom-seen years, like this year is for the first time since 1967, when all three of Mercury’s apparent reversals were entirely in water signs.
Mercury’s first retreat of 1776 was confined to Pisces from late February to mid-March. Same for this year and 1967. Mercury’s last rollback of 1776 was from late October to mid-November solely in Scorpio. Same for 1967 and 2013.
Once a fluke, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern. This year, at the very least, the astrology of Mercury’s periodicity in reversal establishes the trend, which is simply stated as: “What goes around, comes around.”