Mercury Retrograde Strikes Again

Mercury Retrograde Strikes Again

Here's a good example of how the Mercury Retrograde period can coincide with a "false start". It's advisable to try and avoid beginning major endeavors during the Mercury Retrograde period because those beginnings tend to be premature (in relation to "perfect divine timing"). The plane took off on Saturday, 30th May, 2015. The current Mercury retrograde period is from 19th May to 12th June, 2015.

Sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane lands in Japan due to bad weather, delaying round-the-world voyage

The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 has landed in the Japanese city of Nagoya, as bad weather delayed a landmark attempt by the plane to cross the Pacific Ocean.

"Weather deteriorating over Pacific, decision taken for intermediate landing in Nagoya and wait for better conditions," Bertrand Piccard, the initiator of the mission, tweeted.

The plane was in a holding pattern near Japan on Monday as organisers warned that bad weather in the days ahead could block its ambitious bid to cross the Pacific.

The seventh leg of the round-the-world journey was set to take pilot Andre Borschberg, 62, on a six-day, six-night flight from the Chinese city of Nanjing to Hawaii, on an 8,500-kilometre flight across the Pacific.

The bold attempt was called off just after 3pm Shanghai time on Monday.