Mercury in Astrology -- Exploring the territory of your mind
Yellow is a Mercury color.
In Astrology, each Zodiac sign describes an important life function ... and one of the inner selves which comprise your total personality. Each Zodiac sign is ruled by one of the celestial elements ... The Sun, The Moon or one of the eight planets excluding the Earth.
Since there are twelve Zodiac signs and only 10 rulers, two of these celestial elements do double duty. One is Venus, who rules both Taurus and Libra. The other is Mercury, who rules both Gemini and Virgo.
Of the Inner Selves ruled by Mercury, one manages your mind and its various talents; the other is in charge of the work you do ... the way you use what you know, the skills you've learned and the talents you've refined to manage the business of daily life.
Just as the domains of Venus come down to "love" and "money," Mercury's responsibilities are often reduced down to the basic categories of "mind" and "work," but they contain whole subdivisions of talents and behavior. The complexities of mind and work are legion.
Mercury, too, aims to keep these two significant life areas working comfortably ... with each other and with your inner selves who have other interests. (Again, there are 10 major ones who comprise your psycho-spiritual Inner Family.)
Your Mercury energy wants your mind ... and the work you do with it ... to be fun, educating and useful -- for you and those you meet, live with and work for. Sometimes Life cooperates in this; sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes your different Inner Selves cooperate in this; sometimes they don't. You -- and your Mercury energy -- will act one way when things are going well. You will both become "a completely different person" when they aren't.
For general purposes, consider Mercury as the ruler of Gemini your Inner Self of Intellectual Engagement. As the ruler of Virgo, it becomes your Inner Self of Practical Applications.
Essentially, Mercury gathers information on a wide range of topics ... from general to specific and from profound knowledge to trivial facts. Then he finds ways to put it to work doing useful service and giving support to you and the people you work for.
This is how he means to improve life for everyone, using what he knows to make things run better. He is always gathering in new facts, always looking for ways to improve his efficiency and methods. Getting stuff done faster and more economically is what simply makes his day!
There are also many other facets to Mercury energy within these broad categories. Also, from time to time, small parts of these roles will be taken over -- and used ... or infringed on ... by other Inner Selves, but these general categories define Mercury's consistent interests ... the part of life these Inner Selves manage.
Questions about any of this? Talk to me in comments. It's a terrific way to build value for yourself and the community ... and it will give me ideas of what to write about in future posts. Believe me there is lots to say about the way The Sun, The Moon -- and all the other elements in a horoscope, all the other components of Astrology -- work together to interpret you and your story -- and what it all means to the person you've become.
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