Mercury will soon be on the move.

Mercury turns retrograde on October 28 at 3:16 p.m. EDT. The planet turns direct on November 17.

More on that later; but now, a special note:

Mercury will transit the Sun on Nov. 8, between 19:12 and 00:10 UT [11:12 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. EDT; 4:12 a.m. to 9:10 a.m. on Nov. 9 in Korea]. Those in western North America and eastern Australia and New Zealand will be able to see the whole event. The rest of the Americas and East Asia will only see it at sunset or sunrise, respectively.

I last saw this type of event in November of '99.