posted January 29, 2005 04:53 AM              

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(148) Mercury spreads the light of the soul--intuitive and illuminating-- upon the situation, to interpret for us, through our own illumined minds, the significance of events and to relate the old and the new, the past and the future through the light of the present.

(132) Through Mercury the mind is illumined and relation is established between personality and the soul.

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Mercury in signs by Michael Robbins http://www.esotericastrologer.org/EA%20Essays/EAessaysMDR7.htm

and the author's suggestions

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When asking about Mercury in the various signs, some kinds of questions which may be useful ask are the following:

1) What type of messages are carried from soul to personality?

5) In what way does the individual with Mercury in a particular sign give 'voice' and 'word' to higher realizations.

7) What is the nature of the individual's intuitive process and access---its strength, its quantity, its quality?

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here are some esoteric interpretations of mercury's placement which gives a different perspective to the meanings encountered in exoteric astrology

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Mercury in Aries
4. The pioneering, demanding mind, penetrating into the formless worlds by the force of will.

Mercury in Taurus
4. The intuition reveals that which is considered desirable and valuable from the perspective of the soul. Mind sheds light on that which is worth having.

Mercury in Gemini
6. The mind speaks the words of the soul. The fluid, verbal mind becomes an excellent verbal interpreter of that which is ‘spoken’ by the soul.

Mercury in Cancer
17. A mind adept at divining subtle feelings and giving mental/verbal expression to such feelings.

Mercury in Leo
5. Brilliance of mind which is a reflection of soul light. Mind receives light without obscuration.

Mercury in Virgo
16. The mind reveals the areas within the personality fields which must be ‘cleaned’ and purified for the soul to properly manifest.

Mercury in Libra
25. The light transmitted from the soul inclines towards the interpretation of experience according to the principles of justice and equal rights under the law.

Mercury in Scorpio
28. Depth of capacity for “Spiritual Reading”; decoding the encrypted ‘messages of Nature’.

Mercury in Saggitarius
3. Highly intuitive mind; intuitive reception of pure truth, often in symbolic form. Thus, a mind which divines much through higher ‘symbolic reading’ (like spiritual reading of the more abstract kind).

Mercury in Capricorn
1. Shedding the “light supernal” the light of the “mountain-top of revelation”. Soul light shed on circumstances is intense. The light which reveals life upon the summits.

Mercury in Aquarius
28. The mind which thinks and speaks the ‘archetype’; hence, highly ‘original’ mind in the sense that an ‘original mind’ accesses the archetypal source

Mercury in Pisces
15. The mind sensitive to spiritual subtlety, to that something “far more deeply interfused”

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there are more interpretations for the individual mercury placements

aries, taurus, gemini, cancer http://www.esotericastrologer.org/EA%20Essays/EAessaysMDR7.htm

leo, virgo, libra, scorpio http://www.esotericastrologer.org/EA%20Essays/EAessaysMDR8.htm