power planets

At one time, before sophisticated speech was developed, communication was about warning of approaching danger and as a means of marking out territory. This is still much in evidence in the world of birds and animals. Bees communicate by dancing!

Mercury is concerned with how we process information collected from our environment and relay it outwards.

In its asleep state, this becomes instinctive; we are picking up clues from our environment all the time, sometimes subliminally and we react and act accordingly.

The mental processes are very much what Mercury is about, rather than the attachment of wisdom and meaning to the information gleaned in this way.

So Mercury is associated with our earliest education at school, where lessons and information is based on receiving facts. Someone with a strong Mercury may have a need to speak without much thought to what is being said so we get clever soundbites and word play.

In its awakening state, Mercury is concerned with the intricacies of language, intellect and the use of selection and discrimination (where we can see the connection to Virgo). It is able to select detail and home in on the smallest pieces of information which make up the whole picture.

In its highest form, Mercury becomes a powerful tool in communicating the truth and beauty of language and literature.

Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury and here we see the non-verbal communication through the so-called sixth sense, the highly attuned ability to collect data from the subtlest sources.

The twenty six letters of the alphabet can create love, war, revolution, death, life and magic.

How do you use them?

Annabel Burton . Astrology

the Astrologer : www.annabelburton.com