Astrology

Mercury in Aquarius

Mercury represents the way you think, speak and learn. In Aquarius, it expresses itself in an original, free-spirited way, with eyes on the future.

In Aquarius — a fixed air sign ruled by Saturn —, Mercury wanders peregrine, though it shares the air triplicity: the mind is like an antenna that catches the ideas of many and filters only what matters, keeping itself apart with remarkable impartiality. It parts emotion from thought, which gives it strong self-control and resilience, though it may lose itself when it plunges too far into the heads of others. Independent and eclectic, it swings between common sense and the radical, and when inspired it needs to share everything. Being peregrine, it depends on its dispositor, Saturn. The risk is intellectual coldness or theory that detaches from the real. Its strength is original lucidity: a Mercury that thinks for itself, sees systems from without, and foresees what no one yet has grasped.

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