Mercury
rules Gemini and Virgo · day: Wednesday
Mind · Exchanges · Words
✦ The essence of Mercury ✦
Mercury is the messenger: the planet of the mind, of words, exchanges, short journeys and quick ideas. It governs the way you think, learn, negotiate and tell a story. Fast, agile, never far from the Sun, it is everything that circulates: within you, the thought; between people, the conversation, the letter, the deal, the bond.
In your chart
Your Mercury describes your intelligence in motion: the way you explain, understand, convince. It colours your sweet words and your angry ones, your lists and your slips of the tongue.
Mercury retrograde
Three or four times a year, for about three weeks, Mercury appears to move backwards in the sky. The tradition reads misunderstandings into it: delays, messages that get lost, devices acting up. Nothing dramatic. It is an invitation to reread before sending, to reconfirm appointments and to pick up the conversations left hanging. The prefix of the season is re: review, redo, repair.
✦ The signs it rules ✦
The Magician
In the tradition, Mercury answers to The Magician, the card of the hand that begins, every tool on the table and the word that sets things in motion. This card colours the way the planet acts in your sky.
The planets are one half of the language of the sky. Keep exploring with the ten planets, or discover the other way the invisible catches your attention, the angel numbers.