ALMUTEM
Mercury in Aries
Mercury represents the way you think, speak and learn. In Aries, it expresses itself with drive and courage, throwing yourself forward.
In Aries — cardinal fire, ruled by Mars — Mercury is peregrine: it has here no house nor seat of its own, lodging on another’s ground and wearing the colour of the lord of war. Hence a kindled, ready mind, of swift reasoning that fires before it measures. The word comes out sharpened like a point, given to dispute and to the immediate retort; the wit prefers to cut a path rather than go around it. It inclines to frank argument, to the decision taken in a single throw, to an eloquence that attacks more than it weaves. It tends to begin many discourses and to leave some unfinished, for the haste of Mars allows no delay in calculation. It gives a talent for intellectual initiative, for debate and for all that demands striking first. The danger lies in precipitation: judging before hearing, speaking before thinking, spending the sharpness on small quarrels instead of saving it for the work that deserves it.