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• Mercury symbolizes mentality: your intellect
and mental outlook, the way you think and
communicate. This fast-moving planet stands for
ideas, methods and information, especially as
expressed through communication and media.
Through its ruler ship of your hands, Mercury
indicates your manual dexterity and mechanical
skills.

Mercury also governs transportation: how you get
where you're going, both physically and mentally. Are
you a hare, or a tortoise? Mercury's position in your
chart will tell all!

• Acts on the perspective and intellectual faculties.

• Stimulates curiosity about things and desire for
knowledge

• Directions to strong aspects of mercury promote
business activity, desire for travel and promotes
interest and success in learning.

• Unfortunate acts of mercury denote carelessness or
poor judgment in speaking, writing and in the
carrying on of business.

• Malefic planets afflicting mercury by arcs of direction
denote loss in business of fraud, deception, lying and
slander and warn the native to beware of being
outwitted. Under such influences servants or
employees may act adversely to the native’s interests,

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