Mercury is the Roman god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he is also the guide of souls to the underworld. He was considered the son of Maia and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His name is possibly related to the Latin word merx ("merchandise"; compare merchant,commerce, etc.), mercari (to trade), and merces (wages).
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In astrology Mercury is about mind and communication. It is about languages, thinking, writing and talking. It is also about moving around.
In the old Roman world a person who was good in talking was, of course, also clever at the market where all the daily talking between many people took place .
Here the quick-minded Mercury-person was clever and could get more money.
The word for thinking, that is used in the Latin lanuages is today penso (It. pensare, French penser, Spa. pensar) which actually means “to balance” in the sense of using the beam scales that they used at the market place.
Today people can also get money from talking (and writing), of course, the whole PR-business is the art of communicating something and just look at the politicians.
Whatever you want to sell you will have to communicate it to other people.
Or you will have to be discovered by someone else who is capable of making that communication for you.
We have come to an era when spirituality, and also shamanism, is more and more ruled by commercialism and in every corner of the old religions we seek the hidden key that can give us money, wealth, beauty, power, fame or some other quick´n easy fix.
In ancient astrology there is no lucky money-star, because in the good old cradle of astrology the astrologers were seeking wisdom and knowledge about our human nature and not money. So money has not always been connected with “something good”. In old India money-making was a kind of “left-over” for those who were not capable of getting knowledge. Those poor, stupid guys had to make business instead of doing something that required a strong mind.
In the Roman world the thinking person got money, but in the old India the thinking person got wisdom.
We have the “stars” of beauty, love, action, surprise, block, hinder, opening, romanticism, mind etc. and they can also be called “gods” because they are parts of our psyche that the astrological chart reflects.
But there is no old shining Money God in the chart.
We would have to search for the key that gives or indicates some other quality that could indicate success, satisfaction or happiness or, in the beginning, at least a better understanding of your mind and your abilities and which area of life that suits you best. But then you will have to work on it and become skilled and finally you have to show it to the world, with the help of Mercury.
Now, here all the planets can be of importance. Maybe you go out with your personal, original skills over and over again, but nothing happens. And then… suddenly, the opening comes. So we can search for the planets that can be connected with “openings”, with energy, with “being seen”, with making an effort etc. but not with money. Money comes later as a result of all those other talents and efforts.
We can look at Paul Potts, who was a salesman in a store when he suddenly became a famous artist. For other people it was suddenly, but for him it was just the climax of a long training and focus on an inner talent that he was born with.
Only one lucky transit by a lucky planet does not make much. There has to be a combination of a lot of factors.
In this show he actually stepped into a big Communication Industry and it seems like he did a tremendous effort at exactly the right time.
Paul Potts' Got Talent Transits
Saturn sextile Sun
Jupiter sextile Sun
(Maybe Sun conjunct Moon)
(Maybe Uranus conjunct Moon)
(Maybe Moon conjunct Moon)
Sun opposition Pluto
Sun opposition Mars
Sun trine Venus
Mercury conjunct Moon´s node
Mercury square Neptune
Mercury quincunx Pluto
Neptune trine Sun
Venus quincunx Pluto
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