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Mercury rules the analytical faculties, speech, the intellect, and the power of discrimination. Therefore Mercury is the significator of our functional mind as the Moon is the significator of our inner emotional mind, and the Sun reflects our inner self.

Since Mercury is often in close proximity to the Sun throughout the year it becomes weak in most charts as The Sun's powerful rays can burn up or combust a planet when it is too close. Mercury never goes more than thirty degrees past the sun and often is within a fourteen-degree orb of the sun, which then renders Mercury weak. Any planet within ten degrees of the Sun will suffer from a state of combustion and lose strength.Mercury represents our nervous system, which activates our functional mind. Eighty percent of the world's population have Mercury in a state of combustion. This is perhaps an explanation of why there is so much disarray and disharmony in the world.

A benefic Mercury in one's chart can make one sharp and shrewd in business, generally quick witted with a sense of humour. They can communicate well and have good writing abilities. Television, computers, radios, telephones and every other form of communication with electricity is the domain of Mercury.

A weak Mercury can create tensions in life, lack of confidence and indecisiveness, the person speaks incessantly without listening. A malefic transit on Mercury or aspect from a negative or malefic planet can actually make a person a nervous wreck. A malefic Mercury can make a person a cheat, liar, or manipulator, essentially a true con man.

Mercury may be a healer, as well as an astrologer or a homeopath (Shiatsu, polarity massage, kinesiology, herbalist etc.).

Mercury people are short in stature and have attractive features with large eyes. They have a body that is well proportioned to their stature, neither overweight nor skinny.

Indications Of Mercury:	The functional mind, nervous system, humour, wit, business sense, communicator, speaker, writer, journalist, lying disposition, con man.
Body Parts Of Mercury:	Skin, lungs, tongue, hands, arms, mouth and shoulders, controls psychic diseases such as nervous breakdowns, impotence, vertigo, deafness, asthma and respiratory canal. It also may be responsible for insomnia.
Occupation of Mercury:	Businessman, editors, authors, accountants, salesmen, mathematicians and engineers and any form of communications, importers and traders, healers and astrologers.
To the Beginning	This article was written by John R. Fyfe