Despite the best efforts of great and not so great thinkers the human mind remains an impenetrable mystery and your inquiring mentality aka curiosity has you wondering about yours. It’s something only you can do – how could an outside observer possibly know anything about how your mind works? – and with the aid of your birth chart and Hermetic astrology you can do it.
Your mentality or mind is a core component of your character.
It’s defined as your characteristic way of thinking, mental power and intelligence so it refers to traits and capacities that exist below your objective consciousness and find expression through your mental activity and actions.
Your mentality actually engages in two kinds of mental processes.
One involves feelings, unreasoned thought processes, impressions, hunches and intuitions about this, that and the other; and the other involves cerebral activity aka classified observation, thoughtful analysis, careful reasoning and the formulation of words and sentences.
Your daily mental activity as you go about the business of living, which primarily determines your conduct, involves spontaneous thoughts, feelings, impressions and imaginings that stream into your brain from the Moon thought-cells in your greater-soul-consciousness.
Yet, while you’re much more inclined to act on your feelings, you can apply logic and reason to determine your behavior response and the intelligence you apply and the words you speak or write are streaming in from your Mercury thought-cells.
The Moon and Mercury in your birth chart map thought-cell activity in your not-conscious soul-mind that expresses the full scope of your mentality.
The feelings, unreasoned thoughts, intuitions, hunches, inklings, spur of the moment impressions, whims, notions and spontaneous observations that define your daily life mental activity are just your Moon thought-cells responding to what’s going on.
Then in response to a problem situation your objective thinking kicks in. You apply your intelligence, engage in objective analysis and make a reasoned decision; and your concentrated mental activity that’s focused on a problem is just your Mercury thought-cells doing their thing.
Moon and your everyday mentality
The Moon in your birth chart maps the most receptive thought-cell group within your soul-consciousness. As you go about your daily life they’re responding to what’s going on with impressions and habitual feeling responses. Reasoned thinking isn’t needed.
Your mental attitude and mentality, as a feeling response to circumstance, is mapped by your Moon sign. You express its traits, qualities and attributes. If it’s harmonious you’re inclined to express its better, finer qualities and if it’s discordant you’re inclined to express its noxious, inferior traits.
Your Moon’s aspect structure depicts a network of thoughts and feelings that map the general trend of your mental activity.
Aspects to the Moon map mental traits aka patterns of thought-cell activity that have easy access to your brain’s electrical activity facilitating their objective awareness. Those with high astrodyne power scores are more pronounced.
You have a capacity to absorb and understand the special kinds of information associated with the planets that aspect the Moon.
Every aspect indicates unconscious trains of thought concerning the things denoted by the aspecting planet. The aspects with the most power depict the most pronounced unconscious thought patterns.
Harmonious aspects map pleasant-comfortable mental activity which you experience as feel-good states of consciousness; and discordant aspects map unpleasant-distressful mental activity which you experience as feel-bad states of consciousness. High discord Moon aspects indicate mental stress that can adversely affect your mental health.
You’re easily impressed by a special kind of experience mapped by your Moon sign. It’s an innate mental capacity that you assimilate easily which develops independent of training and education.
Your mentality is polarized in the decanate of the zodiac occupied by the Moon in your birth chart. You’re easily impressed by the story it tells. It provides valuable information pertaining to your spiritual destiny.
Fact-check: Your mental attitude, spontaneous mental processes and the general trend of your mentality aka mind are indicated by the Moon in your birth chart.
Mercury and your cerebral processes
Feeling is your first language. You learned to act on your feelings long before you learned to apply and act on objective thinking and critical analysis.
As you go about your daily life your everyday mentality goes with the flow responding to events as they occur but your objective thinking is motivated.
Your cerebral processes are goal directed. They have a purpose. There’s something to achieve, a problem to solve. You’re making judgments and doing calculations.
The general trend of your cerebral processes in which reasoning, classified observation and the formulation of words and sentences are employed – which is so essential in getting information across to others – is shown in your birth chart by Mercury’s sign location, decanate and aspect structure.
Mercury indicates your potential to engage in deductive reasoning and rational thought and to study hard and express your academic thoughts in speech or writing. It can be easily attracted to the purely mechanical.
Mercury’s sign location indicates your manner of speaking. Your expression – in speech or writing – is polarized in Mercury’s decanate.
The news bulletin you issue about your daily life is just your Mercury thought-cells doing their thing, but you’re just relating so there’s not much objective thinking going on.
The functional status of your thinking, reasoning powers and expression is indicated by the harmony or discord of Mercury.
Harmonious aspects to Mercury incline towards clear, reliable thinking, successful communication, good decisions and saying the right thing. Discordant aspects sign for thought problems, unreliable thinking, poor communication, overthinking, bad decisions and saying the wrong thing.
High discord aspects involving Mercury can indicate mental stresses that can result in mental health problems.
You have a capacity to think about the matters and activities ruled by the planets that aspect Mercury; and have some facility for expressing their qualities and characteristics in your speech or writing. The harmony or discord of the aspect indicates if you’re inclined to express the effective-beneficial, or ineffective-detrimental, qualities of the planet.
Moon-Mercury aspects link unconscious mental activity with conscious thinking facilitating the conscious awareness of unconscious thoughts and ideas.
All the thoughts arising from your mentality, individuality, personality and dominant planet must find expression by the method and facility indicated by Mercury’s sign and aspects.
Fact-check: The general trends of your cerebral processes in which you engage in reasoning, classified observation and the formulation of words and sentences are indicated by Mercury in your birth chart.
The data provided by your mentality and cerebral processes isn’t scientifically verifiable but it is personal truth and that’s what you’re after and all that counts.
House 3 and your private thinking
House 3 in your birth chart is all about your private thinking and the creative thinking you do when you’re writing words and sentences. It indicates your habitual state of mind.
The natural field of expression of any planet associated with house 3 is thinking, study, learning, academic work, writing and/or research. They put their signatures on your private thinking and their harmony or discord indicates if your state of mind is inclined to be harmonious and comfortable or discordant and upset.
Your mind can be energized or lethargic. You can be mentally engaged or just idling along. Your mind needs disciplined purpose. You should put it to work.
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