ALMUTEM
Mercury in Cancer
Mercury represents the way you think, speak and learn. In Cancer, it expresses itself with sensitivity and a wish to look after your own.
In Cancer — cardinal water, ruled by the Moon — Mercury is peregrine, without dominion of its own, and drinks from the lady of the night a moisture that softens its dry reasoning. The mind here thinks in images and affections, retains what has touched the feeling and judges more by impression than by the straight line. The word is evocative, changeable as the tide, now fluent now withdrawn according to the state of the soul. It inclines to the memory of things lived, to an eloquence that moves, to a wit turned toward home, toward roots and toward those nearby. It tends to keep what it has heard and to mull it over in silence. It gives rich imagination, a fine touch for what others feel, a knack for the stories of house and family. The danger lies in inconstancy: letting judgement rise and fall with the Moon, wounding itself with words spoken and taking fantasy for understanding.