Well, once again, nisaba and I are of the same view.
I don't know anything about astrology, other than I'm a Sagittarian and people have said Temperance is associated with that sign, and that's about it.
My life is busy and any busy life, especially for me, can involve mishaps due to absent-mindedness (scatterbrained my mother use to call me) and other little ripples in the stream of life. I have to keep my life simple these days and if I do, it's really enjoyable, mishaps and all.
I also see people griping about Mercury retrograde on Facebook all the time. I don't get it. First of all, what I read about it is that Mercury only
seems to go backward but doesn't really. So in that case people are actually sabotaging themselves by thinking it's a big backwards thing that causes problems.
I also read somewhere recently why it is that people want to connect astrology and numerology to Tarot when it wasn't originally connected but I've forgotten what it said. I do remember, though, that the author said it didn't work out right to be fitted in with Tarot in a mathematical way---something like that.
Anyway, Mercury whether retro or not just doesn't even make a blip on my radar unless I see FB people complaining about it.