Symbols - What does heaven look like
MERCURY
Each Intelligence is ‘conscious’ with the shared functions of communication as well as the functions of the particular system which it controls. But each Intelligence - or archetype - is also allocated a set of attributes that might be classified as Personality traits. These attributes are used to build up the Personality geared to our Destiny.
Personality traits or Attributes are functions just like any other function except that they are unrelated to the operation of physical things.
In the following charts I have listed some of the attributes of the MERCURY Intelligence. These have been obtained principally from the books by Michel Gauquelin whose scientific study into this area was backed by huge volumes of research comparing actual people with their attributes. Additional attributes have been obtained from the books by Jeff Mayo plus some other modern authors.
Mercury’s principal skill is in Communication
Positive |
Negative |
Friendly, sociable, amicable, affable, amiable, cordial, genial, expansive |
Capricious
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Busy, hard working, industrious, studious |
Cold, frigid, detached, unaffectionate, coolly affectionate |
Conscientious, diligent, responsible |
Unfaithful, lacking fidelity, fickle, inconstant, disloyal |
Controlled, disciplined |
Dishonest, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued |
Effective |
Insincere –flatterers, flirts and seducers |
Efficient |
Intolerant, Critical, Hypercritical |
Incisive, piercing, discriminating, penetrative, sharp |
Inattentive, unobservant, distracted |
Meticulous, careful, precise, Fastidious, exact, diligent, scrupulous, concise |
Slapdash, imprecise, unfastidious |
Perfectionist |
Punctilious, minutely detailed, pedantic |
Communicative |
Volatile, Unstable, Neurotic, Nervous, Anxious |
Open minded, flexible, adaptable, receptive to change, accepting of change |
Contradictory, inconsistent, erratic |
Versatile, will initiate change |
Unpredictable, changeable, fitful |
Seductively persuasive, skilled in reasoned debate |
Opinionated, Dogmatic, Narrow minded, Illiberal |
MERCURY is also connected with change and transformation, thus he is associated with both construction and creativity and destruction as the two have to go together – the old has to go for the new to appear.
People are frightened of change, as such MERCURY has a somewhat ambivalent image in myths and legend. He is portrayed as both a terrifying destructive force, or a powerful creative deity. Jung spoke of Mercury’s effects in his lecture ‘The spirit of Mercury’ in 1942 during the Second World War when the destruction at the time seemed appalling, but from this destruction arose positive change – one of which was the liberation of women .
Some personifications according to various artists Hermes/Mercury on Pegasus Notice the caduceus |
Observations
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- Blake, William - And thou, Mercurias, that with winged brow
- Celsus
- Dava Sobel on the Planets
- Dickinson, Edmund - When Phoebus with his rayes bright
- Dickinson, Emily - The Sun retired to a cloud a woman’s shawl as big
- Dr Jordan Peterson – The Mesopotamian gods and the Creation story
- Eridu
- Ibn Umayl - Al-Durra al-Naqīya
- Intelligences - PLANETS MERCURY Enki
- Judee Sill - Lopin' Along Thru the Cosmos
- Key of Solomon, The – The different kinds of spirits
- Macrobius - The Descent of the Soul from the Height of Cosmos to the Depths of Earth
- Maier, Michael - The Secrets of Alchemy - The Tincture and Gold
- Newton, Sir Isaac - The Pipes of Pan - Music of the spheres
- Poimandres - Hermes Trismegistus
- Pythagoras - Censorinus - De Die Natali
- Rider-Waite - 10 Wheel of Fortune
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Levels and layers
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - The Planets
- Spacefrog hears bells and counts rabbits
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Letter Omega - 07