ALMUTEM
Mercury in Capricorn
Mercury represents the way you think, speak and learn. In Capricorn, it expresses itself with method, ambition and the patience to build.
In Capricorn — cardinal earth, ruled by Saturn — Mercury is peregrine, without dignity of its own, but the cold earth of Saturn gives it a solid seat and disciplines the wit. The mind is grave, methodical, patient, turned toward the useful and the lasting; it thinks in steps and builds with deliberate slowness. The word is sober, sparing, calculated for effect and not for brilliance; each saying serves an end. It inclines to strategy, to administration, to long-range calculation, to a dry eloquence that convinces by solidity. It tends to distrust and to see the world from the side of difficulty. It gives a talent for governing affairs, for patient politics, for the work that rises year after year. The danger lies in coldness: to let calculation smother generosity, to yield to the pessimism that darkens all, to use cunning to climb without heeding whom it treads upon.