Mercury (Alchemy): Difference between revisions

Mercury has rulership of two mutable signs: Gemini and Virgo, Air and Earth respectively. As ruler of Gemini, Mercury is exalted (matured) in Virgo because knowledge is matured in being put to use. Acquired knowledge, remains in its "childhood" if it is not projected or expressed for the ongoing evolution during the [[Soul]] incarnation. Only through knowledge can service be fulfilled and divine purpose be manifested with material affairs improved. Anything that is rightly known, such as in experiencing Gnosis, can be rightly used. Perpetuating darkness is the result of ignorance and is the path to wrongly use knowledge and corrupt service.  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 (higher principles) and humankind. 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 level we know through direct experience which yields gnosis.<ref>[http://www.cafeastrology.com/mercury.html Mercury]</ref>