Thought I had nothing to worry about since Mercury isn't a main Time Lord for me this year. But when I got locked out of my laptop on the first day of the retrograde via BitLocker encryption (something I never initiated), I had second thoughts. Mercury retrograde was indeed afoot. After two hours of research, seeing every BitLocker thread unsolved, with people losing all their data, I discovered that Windows 10 initiates BitLocker automatically, & I was signed into the Microsoft account for my other laptop, not the broken one. Once I signed into the 2nd Microsoft account, I found the ...