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==Mercury in Astrology== | ==Mercury in Astrology== | ||
Mercury, the messenger of the gods, is the ruler of Gemini and Virgo. Mercury is the messenger in Astrology as it is in Mythology, see [[Mercury (Hermes)]]. It is the planet of day-to-day expression and communication. Mercury's action is to take things apart and put them back together again. It is an opportunistic planet, decidedly unemotional and curious. Mercury not only rules communication, it represents coordination. Thought processes, ideas, and sensory information from both unconscious and unconscious sources all need to be coordinated and understood. <ref>[http://www.cafeastrology.com/mercury.html Mercury]</ref> | Mercury, the messenger of the gods, is the ruler of Gemini and Virgo. Mercury is the messenger in Astrology as it is in Mythology, see [[Mercury (Hermes)]]. It is the planet of day-to-day expression and communication. Mercury's action is to take things apart and put them back together again. It is an opportunistic planet, decidedly unemotional and curious. Mercury not only rules communication, it represents coordination. Thought processes, ideas, and sensory information from both unconscious and unconscious sources all need to be coordinated and understood. Mercury is the link (messenger) between the gods (principles) and mankind. It is through Mercury that we learn, first, the objective nature and quality of things, and then the awareness of principles opens our consciousness to the subjective reality; on both octaves we are learning but on the first we integrate through identification; on the second we know through experience which yields understanding.<ref>[http://www.cafeastrology.com/mercury.html Mercury]</ref> | ||
The planet Mercury rules the Planetary Sphere of [[Hod]] which is the eighth sphere in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life (Ten Spheres) or [[Sephiroth]]. | The planet Mercury rules the Planetary Sphere of [[Hod]] which is the eighth sphere in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life (Ten Spheres) or [[Sephiroth]]. | ||