Retrograde in History · 2021

2021 Facebook outage

On October 4, 2021, Mercury was mid-loop — retrograde in Libra, tracing backward through 22°14′ of the sign.

WhenOctober 4, 2021♎︎Libra 22°14′Rx windowSep 27 – Oct 18, 2021

☿Mercury retrograde♎︎LibraWikipedia

The record

outage of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus in October 2021

More from this window · Sep 27 – Oct 18, 2021

2021Pandora Papers 2021Kongsberg attack 20212021 Czech legislative election 20212021 Paris–Roubaix

Coincidence, not causation: the date is real and ephemeris-based, but a retrograde window is observed, never blamed. For entertainment, not navigation.

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