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The 3 week shadow on both sides of a retrograde still affects people and things.

Large swathes of the planet were hit by the geomagnetic storm amid fears the biggest storm since 2005 could disrupt important communications.

Astronomers warned the storm could affect airline routes, power grids and satellites with the worst of the storm likely to go north of Earth.

But the storm has created a positive side effect with some countries in Asia and Europe, including Britain, being witness to spectacular displays of the Northern Lights at night.

Scientists say the coronal mass ejection, a violent release of plasma and magnetic fields from the sun, has been hurtling toward Earth at 5 million miles an hour (2,000km per second).

The large piece of the Sun's atmosphere was traveling five times faster than solar particles normally travel, they added.

"That energy causes Earth's magnetic field to fluctuate.”

Those of us who are affected by energy (like me) will feel it more than those that are not as sensitive...