On Mercury...
This topic was created in the Virgo forum by Qbone on Monday, July 6, 2009 and has 7 replies.
Function:
?? Intelligence
?? Transmission of information; talking, teaching, writing
?? Reception of information; listening, learning, reading, observing
Dysfunction:
?? Nervousness, rationalization, worry, flightiness, intellectualism, chattering, inconsistency,
hyperactivity
Key Questions:
?? What are my intellectual and communicative strengths?
?? What are my intellectual and communicative weaknesses?
When Retrograde:
?? Mind turned inward, freed to think in independent, imaginative, innovative terms
?? Possible difficulty in self-expression; words do not form
A stroke of luck: you have been chosen as a contestant on a TV quiz show. If your good fortune holds, you walk away with a classy new car and a week in Hawaii. If it doesn??t, you look like a jackass in front of ten million people. You have been prepped. Made up. You walk out under the lights, smiling like Miss America, feeling tense as an astronaut at T minus one.
You get through the pleasantries with the emcee. Who are you? What do you do? You greet
your opponent. Now the pressure. Who was Bogart??s leading lady in The Big Sleep? Tick, tick, tick . . . better think fast . . .Buzz! Your opponent will be driving home in that new Chevy if you don??t act quickly. Where is Tasmania? What is a quahog? Where did the name bikini come from? On and on Beads of sweat. Think, think, think. Who was the first man to set foot on the moon? What was that name? The clock is ticking. . . . That??s it! Hit the buzzer!
Pack your bags for Hawaii. Mercury has come through for you. This is the planet in charge of the library we keep in our heads. Its function is to think. To know. To deduce. To reason. And when it is on centre stage, our minds are clear and quick. Our intelligence is working at its limits. And we are as jumpy as a smoker watching a show about lung cancer.
As planets get closer to the sun, their orbital tethers shorten. They move faster and faster. Even distant Pluto, the slowest, covers three miles each second. Most terrestrial traffic courts would call that a flagrant moving violation, but as planets go it is almost standing still. Earth, by comparison, averages a little over eighteen miles per second???six times Pluto??s velocity. But Pluto??s orbital tether is forty times longer.
?? Intelligence
?? Transmission of information; talking, teaching, writing
?? Reception of information; listening, learning, reading, observing
Dysfunction:
?? Nervousness, rationalization, worry, flightiness, intellectualism, chattering, inconsistency,
hyperactivity
Key Questions:
?? What are my intellectual and communicative strengths?
?? What are my intellectual and communicative weaknesses?
When Retrograde:
?? Mind turned inward, freed to think in independent, imaginative, innovative terms
?? Possible difficulty in self-expression; words do not form
A stroke of luck: you have been chosen as a contestant on a TV quiz show. If your good fortune holds, you walk away with a classy new car and a week in Hawaii. If it doesn??t, you look like a jackass in front of ten million people. You have been prepped. Made up. You walk out under the lights, smiling like Miss America, feeling tense as an astronaut at T minus one.
You get through the pleasantries with the emcee. Who are you? What do you do? You greet
your opponent. Now the pressure. Who was Bogart??s leading lady in The Big Sleep? Tick, tick, tick . . . better think fast . . .Buzz! Your opponent will be driving home in that new Chevy if you don??t act quickly. Where is Tasmania? What is a quahog? Where did the name bikini come from? On and on Beads of sweat. Think, think, think. Who was the first man to set foot on the moon? What was that name? The clock is ticking. . . . That??s it! Hit the buzzer!
Pack your bags for Hawaii. Mercury has come through for you. This is the planet in charge of the library we keep in our heads. Its function is to think. To know. To deduce. To reason. And when it is on centre stage, our minds are clear and quick. Our intelligence is working at its limits. And we are as jumpy as a smoker watching a show about lung cancer.
As planets get closer to the sun, their orbital tethers shorten. They move faster and faster. Even distant Pluto, the slowest, covers three miles each second. Most terrestrial traffic courts would call that a flagrant moving violation, but as planets go it is almost standing still. Earth, by comparison, averages a little over eighteen miles per second???six times Pluto??s velocity. But Pluto??s orbital tether is forty times longer.
No planet is closer to the sun than Mercury. And no planet moves with more alacrity, screaming along through space at thirty miles per second. It completes an orbit in only 88 days, compared to Pluto??s 248 years. That is over a thousand times faster.
If your head is starting to spin, that??s good. You are getting on Mercury??s wavelength. This is the planet of the mind, of the linear, logical functions. Just as it moves more quickly than any other planet, it refers to the part of our consciousness that holds all the psychic speed records: the thoughts, the second-by-second firing of our mental circuitry.
In the old myths, Mercury is the messenger of the gods. Traditionally, it is associated with
speech and written communication. Those connections are valid, but pure Mercurial energy is more primal. It is the disorganized, free-associative play of imagery in the mind, the response of consciousness to the stimulation of the senses. Words come later.
They are a cultural artefact, only a way of imposing order on the confusion of our perceptions.
Language is only Mercury??s playground. Still, a strong Mercurial influence usually indicates a
Talker. And it always indicates a thinker. Those thoughts may be lofty and abstract. Or they may be no more than fretful recitations of mental grocery lists. Either way, they cascade through the mind at breakneck speed. Thirty miles per second. But so often going in circles.
Looking at Mercurial people, one often feels as if they are doing 78 rpm in a world where the
rest of us are doing 33.
That speed is both Mercury??s strength and its main liability. It absorbs impressions faster than
any other planet, so deep is It??s fascination with the shapes, sounds, and ideas of the world. And it may process those impressions as clearly and un-judgmentally as a mirror.
But those perceptions may also pass through the mind un-digested. Like a book collection
Belonging to an illiterate medieval baron, they may accumulate on the mental shelves like so many colourful, meaningless objects.
If your head is starting to spin, that??s good. You are getting on Mercury??s wavelength. This is the planet of the mind, of the linear, logical functions. Just as it moves more quickly than any other planet, it refers to the part of our consciousness that holds all the psychic speed records: the thoughts, the second-by-second firing of our mental circuitry.
In the old myths, Mercury is the messenger of the gods. Traditionally, it is associated with
speech and written communication. Those connections are valid, but pure Mercurial energy is more primal. It is the disorganized, free-associative play of imagery in the mind, the response of consciousness to the stimulation of the senses. Words come later.
They are a cultural artefact, only a way of imposing order on the confusion of our perceptions.
Language is only Mercury??s playground. Still, a strong Mercurial influence usually indicates a
Talker. And it always indicates a thinker. Those thoughts may be lofty and abstract. Or they may be no more than fretful recitations of mental grocery lists. Either way, they cascade through the mind at breakneck speed. Thirty miles per second. But so often going in circles.
Looking at Mercurial people, one often feels as if they are doing 78 rpm in a world where the
rest of us are doing 33.
That speed is both Mercury??s strength and its main liability. It absorbs impressions faster than
any other planet, so deep is It??s fascination with the shapes, sounds, and ideas of the world. And it may process those impressions as clearly and un-judgmentally as a mirror.
But those perceptions may also pass through the mind un-digested. Like a book collection
Belonging to an illiterate medieval baron, they may accumulate on the mental shelves like so many colourful, meaningless objects.
Do you have an acquaintance who can tell you the years in which Beethoven wrote each of his symphonies, but who never smiles or taps his feet when he is listening to them? He has a runaway Mercury. This planet can rev up to a redline pitch and still not have much to show for it. Just a lot of words. A lot of pithy one-liners. It can turn a person into a trivia addict.
Another Mercury risk: our thinking and perceiving functions can easily be warped by the fears and biases built into our own egos.
Astronomy itself warns us of that Mercury pitfall. How? Visually, Mercury is tied to the sun.
The two are never far apart in the sky. Astronomers have known that for millennia, but it was not until the sixteenth century that they understood the reason: Mercury??s tiny orbit is so much closer to the sun than ours that they can never be separated by more than 28 degrees.
We stand so far away from the two of them that they always appear to be right next to each other. Mind orbits ego just as Mercury orbits the sun. Without care and humility, we may see only what we want to see. We may gather our perceptions selectively, always in an effort to support the model of reality with which our ego is most comfortable.
That kind of rationalization and defensiveness is another of Mercury??s traps. This planet can
prove anything with the facts, and even if it can??t, it can still talk so fast and furiously that we miss the holes in the argument. And the only behaviour belying Mercury??s certainty then is nervousness. It can twitch like no other planet.
We must have perceptions. They are to the mind as food is to the body. The position of Mercury On the birth chart helps us see how best to hone and refine them. But it also warns us of prejudices and blind spots. The task with Mercury is to turn it from the sun??s yes-man into his prime minister.
Mercury need not know the meaning of life. Its concerns are more immediate. It must only gather raw information and feed it to the sun. Observation, Information, Transfer. Those are the Mercury functions.
Nothing else is necessary.
Now, bookmark this thread somewhere and refer to it when you need it because Mercury affecting all of us and it is not just belongs to Gemini or Virgo.
Another Mercury risk: our thinking and perceiving functions can easily be warped by the fears and biases built into our own egos.
Astronomy itself warns us of that Mercury pitfall. How? Visually, Mercury is tied to the sun.
The two are never far apart in the sky. Astronomers have known that for millennia, but it was not until the sixteenth century that they understood the reason: Mercury??s tiny orbit is so much closer to the sun than ours that they can never be separated by more than 28 degrees.
We stand so far away from the two of them that they always appear to be right next to each other. Mind orbits ego just as Mercury orbits the sun. Without care and humility, we may see only what we want to see. We may gather our perceptions selectively, always in an effort to support the model of reality with which our ego is most comfortable.
That kind of rationalization and defensiveness is another of Mercury??s traps. This planet can
prove anything with the facts, and even if it can??t, it can still talk so fast and furiously that we miss the holes in the argument. And the only behaviour belying Mercury??s certainty then is nervousness. It can twitch like no other planet.
We must have perceptions. They are to the mind as food is to the body. The position of Mercury On the birth chart helps us see how best to hone and refine them. But it also warns us of prejudices and blind spots. The task with Mercury is to turn it from the sun??s yes-man into his prime minister.
Mercury need not know the meaning of life. Its concerns are more immediate. It must only gather raw information and feed it to the sun. Observation, Information, Transfer. Those are the Mercury functions.
Nothing else is necessary.
Now, bookmark this thread somewhere and refer to it when you need it because Mercury affecting all of us and it is not just belongs to Gemini or Virgo.
Very informative, thanks. That's interesting..
but I'm not saving this in my bookmark, it's not THAT important lol.. the virgo forum needs to get it going. it's so Quiet in here.
It was only a suggestion to the??semi realities?? world we live on.
Personally speaking??_
To hell with the all of that stuff it doesn??t make us any wiser.
To hell with the all of that stuff it doesn??t make us any wiser.
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