Mercury in Taurus
Mercury represents the way you think, speak and learn. In Taurus, it expresses itself with calm, steadiness and a love of what is solid.
In Taurus — a fixed earth sign ruled by Venus —, Mercury wanders peregrine, and gives a practical, organised, and patient mind, that anticipates scenarios and knows how to await the right moment to act. It is excellent for planning, managing, and analysing over the long term, even if this makes it stubborn and averse to change. The thinking is slow but firm: it ponders well, decides slowly, and what is settled does not come undone. Being peregrine, it depends on its dispositor, Venus. When something unforeseen escapes its reckoning — above all in the emotions and in relationships —, it feels the ground shake, for what does not fit the plan unsettles it. Its strength is solid, practical judgement: a Mercury that speaks little and well, and whose given word can be trusted.
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