The practice of mental alchemy requires knowledge pertaining to Mercury in astrology and your birth chart.
Mercury, the messenger of the Gods, represents the one universal principle in nature which expresses as intelligence.
You learn the basics of living through observation. Copy-cat mimicry is based on awareness, not understanding. You acquire knowledge and skills through tutoring. You apply your intelligence when dealing with new or trying situations. Only you know if you live your life intelligently.
Mercury is an important influence in your birth chart. It rules the thought-cells in your astral body that express intelligence.
Your intelligence, like any other energy, needs persistent direction to some definite purpose and when you direct your intelligence persistently it becomes a source of will power.
The culture and use of your will is essential for accomplishment and your only source of will power lies in your ability to receive energy and direct it into channels of your own choosing. The satisfaction of the desires embedded in your soul requires will power and intelligence.
As you go about your daily life your everyday mentality goes with the flow responding to events as they occur but your intelligence expressing as 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. And Mercury in your birth chart indicates your potential to engage in deductive reasoning and to speak and write intelligently.
Sun, Moon and Mercury
Life is the result of the action and interaction of positive and negative forces, as typified by the Sun and Moon.
In your life the Sun rules your solar etheric energies and the Moon rules your magnetic etheric energies. Their activity governs your vitality and constitution. But Mercury tunes your nerve currents to their astral vibrations and directs the flow of these energies over your body’s nervous system.
Mercury rules your brain and nervous system and through the afferent and efferent nerves messages are carried to and from your brain to all parts of your body. And Mercury takes on the influence of any planet it aspects expressing its harmony or discord according to the nature of the aspect.
Mercury is convertible. It can be masculine or feminine in its expression. It is electric and positive when associated with an electric planet and magnetic and negative when associated with a magnetic planet.
It rules your thoughts which run hither and thither much like the globules of quicksilver the metal that Mercury rules. Yet your thoughts have the power to amalgamate in a constructive manner through the direction of your will.
The etheric energies furnished through the activities of the Sun and Moon and the energies radiated by the other planets are susceptible to having their direction of flow changed, and their vibratory rates changed and lowered or raised, through your conscious thoughts ruled by Mercury.
The thinking it promotes is the kind that grinds through your conscious mind almost every waking moment and tunes your etheric energies, which flow as currents over your nervous system, in on similar wave-lengths.
These nervous energies are potent radio-like receiving sets. They pick up planetary energies and people’s thoughts of similar quality and feed them into your thought-built astral body. It’s nourished by the thought elements you feed it.
Fact check: The first astrologers were mental builders. They knew and taught that the quality of the human edifice depended upon the grade of material furnished it; that is the quality of the thoughts.
The Sun in your birth chart rules your individuality and indicates those deep-seated character traits which constitute the motive power behind your life; and the Moon rules those mental factors that are not so deep-seated, which give your mind the ability to grasp information of a certain type.
But your facility for expressing what is felt within, or has been received, and your objective thinking that revolves around your various problems, is determined by the Mercury, the planet of expression. It rules your brain, nerves and tongue – the organ most used when expressing your thoughts.
Mercury by its position and aspects in your birth chart reveals the power of your intellectual urges, or those thought elements which express as intellectuality, restlessness, volatility and changeableness.
Every aspect Mercury receives increases your facility of expression.
In general Mercury rules books, periodicals, railroads, telephone and telegraph systems, and people who are literary and studious.
Mercury desires knowledge and has the ability to learn new tasks with ease. It is witty, versatile, intelligent and scientific and at its best when attaining its ends through talking, writing, teaching, traveling or some occupation that requires the constant use of the mind.
Its best quality expression requires protracted concentration; and its worst quality restlessness inclines to travel and continuous change.
Mercury and health
Disease is always the result of discord and each planet inclines towards a particular type of disease. But in all matters affecting the health it is essential to consider the Sun and Moon, because they govern the vitality and constitution, and Mercury because it rules the nerve currents and nervous system.
Mercury is a birth chart and progressed constant* for nervousness, certain mental troubles, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica, hay fever, asthma, and some bowel complaints. It has a decided influence upon the parathyroid glands, and when afflicted in the birth chart or by progression, indicates a lack of calcium, vitamin B-1 and vitamin D (sunlight).
The upkeep and health of your physical body requires the right amount of calories and vitamins and the upkeep and building of your astral body requires careful consideration of the thoughts you think.
If you feed your physical body poor food, it will not perform efficiently; and feeding your character poor mental food will adversely affect your astral health. It will hamper your happiness and soul development.
The foods you eat will either nourish or poison your physical body and the thoughts you think, which are the foods you feed your astral self, will either nourish or poison your astral self.
Mercury and you
Mercury in your birth chart depicts your intellectual thought-cell group and its associations with other thought groups. It’s constantly building images in your conscious mind; constantly sending words and sentences through your brain; and as the ruler of your nervous system, all your thoughts, whether mentally or verbally expressed, tune your nerves to the etheric energy passing over them so they pick up astral vibrations of a corresponding type.
Your thoughts are continually adding new substance to your astral body and according to their import, and harmony or discord, new thought-cells and new organizations of cells are being built into your astral form which then attract and build corresponding harmony or discord into your physical body.
Chiropractors and many of the mental healers recognize the importance of the nerves in treating disease, and in restoring harmony and health to the physical body.
A stellar healer** not only recognizes this as a basis for their work, but goes a step further. By knowing the particular planetary energy needed and the region where it should be applied, they quickly assist the healing processes.
The planets in your birth chart depict points in your astral body where dynamic thought structures are tuned to their vibratory rates.
Mercury depicts the point that picks up and radiates a type of energy that is sharp, active, changeable, and convertible. It corresponds to your intellectual thought-cell group and embraces thoughts of eventuality, language, calculation, and comparison.
You use your intelligence in your work or in the accomplishment of some predetermined purpose; and as your thoughts are your most potent builders, they constitute your greatest treasure.
Your physical body is the expression of the thought-cells and thought-structures within your astral body aka your character and you can cultivate thoughts and desires that will build a different kind of character… and destiny.
You can build an astral structure that will form the kind of physical body you desire and which will attract conditions and events that will add to your happiness and usefulness.
The kind and quality of your thinking determines the structure you build; and the more exalted your thoughts and emotions, the finer its structure.
Your spiritual body, which is your most refined possession, can only be built up by noble-unselfish aspirations, elevated thoughts, feelings and emotions, love for others and work you do on their behalf.
*Constant: a birth chart or progressed constant is an astrological factor that has been found to be a permanent value through statistical research.
**Stellar healer: a highly skilled soul healer who uses the birth chart to diagnose the thought cause of disease and in its treatment applies astral energies to a patient’s astral body. He or she has expert knowledge of the astral body.
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