It is called "apparent" motion for this reason. It was always called that - but since the '80s its been abbreviated to retrograde - which has proven more confusing. Most folks don't recognize Mercury's apparent retrogressive motion any more. I have a deep love of celestial mechanics and miss some of those more cogent terms but needs must, eh?\
Also the missive is written as entertainment as well as informative so I keep to the current standards for me readers.
Of course, Mercury is not going backwards, it follows its elliptical orbit around the sun as usual, all the time. It only appears to go backwards because of the relative positioning of the earth, Mercury, the sun and the apparent immobility of the stars in the sky. It is the embodiment of the phrase, 'more apparent than real'.
walking in Jerusalem just like John
huzzah, go to, touche. as 'twer a jape.
Your prose style sits, at least for me, somewhere between James Joyce in 'Finnegans Wake' and St, John in his 'Revelation'.
Oh John, the wine he saw the sign
Goodnight, goodnight
Oh, John say, "I seen a number of signs"
Goodnight, goodnight
Tell A for the ark that wonderful boat
Goodnight, goodnight
You know they built it on the land getting water to float
Goodnight, goodnight
Oh, tell B for the beast at the ending of the wood
Goodnight, goodnight
You know it ate all the children when they wouldn't be good
Goodnight, goodnight
I remember quite well, I remember quite well
Goodnight, goodnight
And I was walking in Jerusalem just like John
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
Hi Desmond, The forum went down for a bit.. back a again.
Can you elucidate about the 7 year tribulation. I found some things online but
but it seems a hodgepodge. interested. there are some astrological cycles that it could refer to.