Mercury: the messenger
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Here is the glyph for Mercury: a little person wearing a hat, like a delivery boy.
Mercury rules the signs
Gemini and
Virgo.
Ancient astrologers looked in the sky and saw a strange little light that followed the Sun very closely. He would show up just after sundown in the evenings for a couple of months, then disappear! Then he would show up in the mornings just before sunrise for a couple of months, then he was gone again! This was Mercury, messenger of the Gods, who got a reputation for going hither and thither and being something of a prankster.
The keywords to keep in mind for Mercury are:
The Mind: Day-to-day communications and thought processes
Short travels and trips
Intelligence
Capacity for learning
Information
Details
Mercury’s sign shows how we communicate: do you communicate quickly (Aries), slowly (Taurus)? Forcefully (Leo), softly (Pisces)? Methodically (Virgo), or off the top of your head (Sagittarius)?
The people and things in your life ruled by Mercury are Siblings, Pets, and Machines.
Mercury rules the hands, lungs, and nervous system.
Comments:
- Introduction to the planets
- The Sun: ego
- The Moon: feelings
- Mercury: the messenger
- Venus: the love goddess
- Mars: the warrior
- Jupiter: growth
- Saturn: limits
- Uranus: the enlightener
- Neptune: compassion
- Pluto: power
- Who's Your Valentine? A look at Venus
- Planetary Rulership in Astrology
- Retrograde planets and Karma
- Which planet rules your world?
- Chiron: the wounded healer
- Retrograde planets
- Solar and Lunar Eclipses
- Mercury Retrograde
- The New Moon
- Comments from Venus Retrograde 2005-2006
- Saturn in Leo (July 2005-September 2007)
- Rules for choosing surgery dates
- Mars Retrograde (November 2007 - January 2008)
- Venus Retrograde (July 27 - September 8, 2007)
- Jupiter square Saturn and the local Fuzz
- Choosing a wedding date
- A few notes on Jupiter in Sagittarius
- Saturn in Virgo - September 2007 to October 2009
- Moon Void of Course (v/c)
All this is interesting, But Is Any Of It Real? Or Just A Way To Make Money And/Or Feel Special?
Study it, and you’ll Find Out.