Yikes! Mercury Was Retrograde When I Was Born!

Retrograde natal planets often scare people, as if something were wrong with being born with planets moving in that “backwards” condition. Yet most of us have at least one of them, and often more. They are far from rare, in other words. And they aren’t some kind of high jink in your chart either. They are just different from planets moving in direct motion. It’s sort of like being left-handed.

https://astrologynewsservice.com/articles/retrograde-planets-in-your-birth-char/