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Mercury Retrograde Is Coming, and the Chaos It Brings May Be More Real Than You Think

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I feel like I just got my bearings back from the last Mercury retrograde, and here we are: it’s coming back for another round starting June 29. Yelp, of all places, has the data to prove the madness is real.

Ahead of that next retrograde period, which runs through July 23, Yelp released its first Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide, analyzing searches and Request a Quote submissions from the year’s first retrograde window, February 26 to March 20, and comparing them to the pre-shadow period just before it. The findings are hard to dismiss, whether or not you think a planet’s apparent backward motion has any actual influence on your car’s transmission.

Auto and tech repairs led the surge by a significant margin. Searches for oil changes jumped 301 percent during the retrograde period. Searches for 24-hour phone repair climbed 263 percent. Request a Quote submissions for........

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