Does Mercury Really Move Backwards?

Mercury doesn't actually move backwards. Since Mercury is the planet located closer to the Sun, its orbit is much more short of the terrestrial one. About three or four times a year, Mercury overtakes the Earth, and that's when we experience the period retrograde of Mercury.
If you were in a car and another car you overtaking, you could say he was going faster than you. On the other hand, if a car has slowed down and then you have overtaken it, it would appear that that car was actually going backwards. Then when the car accelerates and overtakes you by again, it throws up all the dust on the road.
As Mercury accelerates, it is like a train that flies, creating one powerful and turbulent gust of "wind" in its wake. There turbulence that Mercury creates when retrograde could affect what we feel on Earth in our life daily.

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