{"id":7140,"date":"2009-12-22T13:28:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2009-12-22T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:28:37","slug":"mars-retrograde-brings-traffic-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/blog\/mars-retrograde-brings-traffic-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Retrograde Brings Traffic Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>Mars is the planet that rules action, so it stands to reason that it\u2019s retrograde turn on the 20th would bring transportation problems, and so it did as several parts of the world faced challenging winter conditions:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Four passenger trains broke down in the Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) between France and Britain on Saturday as Mars stood still preparing to change direction, stranding more than 2,000 passengers for hours.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile on Monday thousands in the UK were trapped in their cars overnight with more than 20,000 breakdowns noted by the end of the night as the result of a record breaking snowstorm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It looks like the weather is the likely culprit and not Mars, but it sure is a coincidence!<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars is the planet that rules action, so it stands to reason that it\u2019s retrograde turn on the 20th would bring transportation problems, and so it did as several parts of the world faced challenging winter conditions: Four passenger trains broke down in the Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) between France and Britain on Saturday as Mars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[1273,2146],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology","category-astrology-in-my-world","tag-mars-retrograde","tag-traffic-breakdowns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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