>>40746983The tailwhip refers specifically to the last day of the post-shadow period or the first day after when Mercury turns direct.
It's when you go "ahh, all the shadow periods are over and mercury is fully direct now!" and then your main TV that you've had for 10 years dies.
In this specific case, the tailwhip will happen in August 26, though I've seen it happen the day after it's supposed to happen, ruining any relief you think you had because the retrograde things are supposed to be over.
I don't think the mercury tailwhip has been documented before this thread on the Internet, but it has been alluded to in TV series or movies when they point out the worst thing didn't even happen when Mercury was retrograde ("see, I told you, it's all a coincidence, this picrel calendar shows safe days with a white background so the calamity of August 27 2025 had nothing to do with Mercury retrograde", nah, it's the tailwhip).