ALMUTEMMercury in Leo
Mercury represents the way you think, speak and learn. In Leo, it expresses itself with warmth, pride and a longing to shine.
In Leo — fixed fire, ruled by the Sun — Mercury is peregrine, without dignity to support it, but a guest in a kingly court, and from the Sun it takes greatness and fixity. The mind is firm, of broad and confident judgement, that thinks largely and is not content with trifles. The word is solemn, ornate, made for the audience: it declares more than it whispers and seeks applause. It inclines to an eloquence of display, to a knowing that shows itself with dignity, to a wit set to the service of honour and of the name. It tends to defend its opinions as one defends a throne. It gives liberality of spirit, loyalty in what is said, a talent for leading and instructing with authority. The danger lies in pride: not to revise the judgement already pronounced, to scorn another’s correction, to spend the intelligence on brilliance and pomp when it ought to be spent on plain and exact truth.