The glorious and long-awaited day is finally here: October 2nd marks the end of this horrifying era we call Mercury in Retrograde. The rains of frogs and plagues of locusts have finally left town, and peace is here once again. 

Mercury in Retrograde is bad, but it isn’t all bad. Hopefully, during these past couple of weeks, you’ve learned new things about yourself that you wouldn’t have learned outside of this astrological era. Maybe you don’t think you’ve learned anything. Perhaps you had a bad time and don’t see any incoming bright side. That’s okay too! Mercury in Retrograde might simply be about groveling in the things that are going poorly, which is okay! There’s no right or wrong way to experience times of astrological distress. All you can do now is celebrate the ending of such a dark-sided time with a few astrology memes.