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MERCURY KEYWORDS 

                                                                               

Mind          Communication (mental and physical)       Thinking         Movement          Gemini/Virgo

Writing            Spoken word        Crafty          Witty            Intelligent        Versatile       Air/Earth

Precocious         Inventive       Amoral       Cunning        Perceptive      Crafts               3rd/6th houses

Intellectual            Reasonable      Critical       Good with hands      Argumentative       Positive +/Negative-

 Rational mind            Trickster         Thief            Craftsman           Nervous/tense        Wednesday

‘Gift of the gab’         Liar        Commerce            Words             Language            Symbols       Signs

Crossroads                Travellers       School            Learning            Siblings          Short journeys

Bridges            Restless        Go-between            Herm stone               Children, young people

Curious            Inquisitive            Asexual            Hermaphrodite            Studying        Books

Education            Speech            Names            Mimicry          Logic              Storyteller

Gathering/processing/communicating                 Dealing            Exchange            Neighbours

Information            Trading            Markets            Connections              Mental activities

Games, especially word games               Brothers & sisters            Duality            Mentality

Twins              Dark twin     ‘Jack of all trades’               ‘Finger in too many pies’

Type of nervous reactions                    General tendency to motion            Connections

Androgyny                     Coordination                      Inflow/outflow of intelligence

 

Hermes            Hermes Psychopomp            Woden, Odin (Anglo-Saxon/Norse)

Raven (Inuit)               Loki (Norse)           Nabu (Babylonian)              Thoth (Egypt)            Hermes Trismegistus

 

The Magician, Harlequin, Pied Piper, Peter Pan, Puck (Midsummer Nights Dream), Ariel (Tempest)

 

Transport, buses, trams, cars, trains, roads, railways, post office, post, couriers, letters, parcels, mobile phones, phones, agents, agencies, shops, bartering, buying/selling, craftsmen, manual dexterity, writing implements

Teachers, schools, transport system, trade, commerce, traditionally: earthquakes, astrology, strong winds.

 

Caduceus, healing, doctors, medic                         Colour - yellow, sky blue

 

Lungs, brain, conscious nervous system, hands, arms, respiratory system, breathing

 

Greyhounds, foxes, squirrels, hyenas, birds (generally), parrots, swallows, cranes,

 

Hazel, marjoram, parsley, legumes, vervain, fennel, dill, multi-coloured flowers (Lilly), beans, walnut, lungwort

 

Quicksilver, agates, topaz, marchasite, multi-coloured stones, opal, jasper, amber



 

Positive character traits  -   Quick-thinking, Curious, wanting to know,  communicative, expressive,  bringing people/ideas together, rationalising ad keeping perspective, witty, intelligent, fun-loving, light-hearted, versatile, adaptable, good at detail.                                                     

Negative traits - Shallow, glib, slick, artful, sly,  nosey, gossiping, chattering, rationalising rather than feeling, barriers to communication, restless, never settling, nervous, inconsistent,  diffuse, scattered, not in-depth, critical, hair-splitting.



MERCURY RETROGRADE

Mercury turns retrograde a couple of times per year for a period of about 3 weeks. This time is seen, traditionally, as a period when communications become snarled up - letters go astray or get delayed in the post, the phone gets cut off, your internet connections goes down, someone misunderstands something you say.... anything to do with communication can become confused. The advice is also, often, to avoid taking trips to places you haven't been to before.

Upcoming Mercury retrograde periods:
(Note, there is often an influence as the planet comes up to its retrograde station, as it slows down, and afterwards until it catches upto where it was before it turned retrograde)

  • 28th January 2008 until 18th February 2008 (GMT)



SUGGESTED READING

  • Greene, Liz - The Inner Planets
  • Cannistra, Claudio - The many faces of Mercury, the bridge between Heaven and Earth in the astral chart, The Astrological Journal  Vol 49, No. 2.  March/April 2007.