Mercury

As much as the moon corresponds with our emotions, so does the planet Mercury represent the conscious mind and intellectual powers of a person.
The current position of Mercury

It is necessary to pay close attention to the aspects of Mercury, since he is generally accommodating, versatile and dazzling. Symbolically he is the mediator and bringer of all goods and talents (Mercury is the messenger in the classic mythology), which he receives from the aspects of the individual planets, determining their nature. The spectrum of his influence, can reach from mental emptiness, neediness and driveling, to real originality, realization and genius. The position of Mercury in horoscope, his situation within a zodiac sign, and especially his relation to the Moon, Sun, Jupiter, Mars and Uranus and the other planets is of significance.

Mercury symbolizes language, speech, the memory, mental and intellectual flexibility, the education, mobility and perceptive faculty of a person as well as logic, skill, phantasm and expressiveness in speech and writing. In a weak personality Mercury brings out slyness, trickery, criticism, fraud, deception, quarrelsomeness, nagging and gossip. This form of mental state has no inner substance or stability. Because of the quick changes between extremes, mercury is able to cause, he is associated with the element of quicksilver. On a physical level, Mercury rules over the nerves and the brain, the center of thought, the memory as well as speech. Speech impediments such as a lisp are always showing, if the aspect of Mercury is impaired in certain areas of the horoscope. The linguistic ability of Mercury reaches from debating, over sarcastic criticism to sophistication. 

On a lower level, Mercury is slyness, curiosity and sensationalism, lying and opportunism. On a higher level he can cause creative and artistic abilities as well as a productive, analytical and ingenious mind. To be able to determine these factors in a horoscope, one needs a high level of sensitivity. The professional field of mercury is trading, buying and selling, traffic, relations, agencies, newspapers and magazines; in short,everything which needs determinism. Besides that he stands for restlessness and versatility, nervousness and a lack of concentration and endurance. Mercury needs the Saturn aspect, if he wants to procure scientific, analytical, concentrated thinking. If he has to show genius and originality, he has to incorporate the Uranus-aspect. He needs Jupiter if he doesn't want to fall for opportunism, but wants to find solid knowledge and opinion. In a symbolic sense, Mercury is a mediator between all the talents of the gods. The zodiac signs he is ruling is Gemini and Virgo. In Gemini he provides oversight, while he keeps the view on the details such as order and critique in Virgo. The Nervous system as mediator of all reflexes and sensations is assigned to him.