Mercury Retrograde: Erie woman receives $284 billion electric bill

Mary Horomanski went online earlier this month to check her electric bill. The Erie woman was stunned to see that she owed Penelec, her electricity provider, more than $284 billion — an amount greater than the national debts of Hungary and South Africa combined. “My eyes just about popped out of my head,” said Horomanski, 58. “We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong.” The good news, if you can call it that, was that Horomanski didn’t have to pay the entire $284,460,000,000 until November 2018. Her minimum payment for December was a relatively paltry $28,156. Dec.24 http://www.goerie.com/news/20171224/erie-woman-receives-284-billion-electric-bill

The reference below tells us what Mercury retrograde is and how it works. The most recent Mercury retrograde station took place on Dec. 3 and its direct motion began on Dec. 22 just two days before the news report.

Mercury Retrograde

Mercury Retrograde is a period of time when Mercury appears to be going backwards against the sky. We observe this about four times a year, as mercury races past the part of its orbit that is closer to the earth and begins to travel on to the further side of the sun, and from our perspective, during that time, moves in the opposite direction as the earth. By line of sight against the sky it seems to move forward, then backwards, then forward again as it returns to pass the earth.

The Mercury Direct Station

Mercury’s backward motion slows down until it appears to hang in the sky again, and this second station also tends to coincide with a peaking of the retrograde phenomena. If the first station was like the deadline, or the quiet before the storm or the receding of the water before the tsunami, the second station can be like the moment the debris field is about to be revealed. Errors made during the rush of Mercury Retrograde Proper may begin to come to light. http://www.astrologymiami.com/mercury-retrograde-astrology-miami.html

At Erie, where Mary Horomanski resides, a chart for the Crescent Moon of December 22, the date Mercury stationed to go direct, has a Mercury-Neptune square aligned with the meridian making it very significant for the place.  While Mercury retrogrades are all about errors, the square to Neptune simply makes it worse.