MERCURY IN GENERAL

The first thing to remember about Mercury is that it is the lord of intelligence, wisdom, experience and application of mind to studies. Thus both formal and self-acquired education depend to a great extent upon Mercury, whatever the subject or discipline of the study. Mercury directly rules teaching, astrology, astronomy, mathematics, journalism, talent for writing books and poetry, any kind of literary work or composition, paper and stationery, science and games of numbers, combinations in games of cards, but it certainly does not rule quack practices in the field of future-telling.

Mercury is a swift moving planet, next only to the Moon. It always moves in the vicinity of the Sun, and therefore, in the sky, it is barely visible to the naked eye. Mercury also rules witticism, and sharpness of mind that rules the thinking process. Most important of all, it rules the physical mechanism of speech in the body. While dealing with any defect in speech, one should first of all think of remedies for Mercury. Where deficiency in intelligence and application of one’s mind to studies is concerned, only worship of Goddess Saraswati will help, whether one’s faith or religion permits this type of worship or not.

• Education has three main ingredients: 
• grasp (understanding), 
• memory (retention), and 
• capacity for subsequent reproduction from memory (expressing what one learned and remembers).

It is important to understand astrologically that Mercury rules two ingredients, viz. ‘grasp’ and ‘reproduction’, while Jupiter rules ‘memory’. Some persons may have a slow grasp of concepts and fundamentals, but have a good memory for retaining whatever has been learnt and understood. Some may have a good understanding (grasp), but poor memory retention. As they do not try, or try half-heartedly, for an experience, success in any other field, to search for an experienced astrologer, they are just dabbling in the astrological field, for a few persons, astrology is just an interest. Quacks, half-baked learners, charlatans, cheats and by putting wrong ideas in your head, they may make matters worse.

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