Mercury Is Retrograde & I Have A Salt Shaker Angel Protecting Me

Whenever, in the course of a couple of days, I drop too many things, bump into more than two hard objects, let my cell phone run out of charge, neglect to buy the item I most needed at the store, and forget that life is precious, I ask myself " Is Mercury Retrograde?" Not that I know what that means exactly... I'm not an astrologer. But I'm  human and I need my illusions, and when life feels like nails on a chalkboard, and I don't even fit in my own body, I love love love having something to hang it on.

Am I alone here?