The Planet Mercury: Nature, function, character and effects of its afflictions
Mercury is a variably, convertible, vacillating, neutral and dualistic planet. Mercury shows the type of mentality one is endowed with as he governs the reaction to one’s sense and impressions. He rules over the solar plexus and the central. nervous system. Being an intellectual planet, the Mercurian is highly intelligent, genius and analytical. He will grasp the subjects very quickly. He gives the native retentive power and reproductive ability. Mercury with the aspect of Jupiter or Venus represents a subtle political brain and intellect and a logician with learning and discretion. Mercury makes one a searcher into mysteries and learning, sharp and witty, learning almost anything without a teacher and ambitions of being exquisite in every science. He gives curiosity to master occult science. Mercury when afflicted makes the person phrenetic. He will write nasty things. He will become a great gambler, the worst liar. Such an afflicted Mercurian will be a cheat.
He will be talkative, perverted, eccentric, unprincipled, inconstant and boastful. If Mercury is afflicted, the native is likely to suffer from the following diseases-vertigo, lethargy, giddiness in the head, madness, diseases of the brain, tuberculosis, stammering and imperfection of the tongue, defects of memory, dry coughs, abundance of spittle, gout of hands and feet, leprosy, cancer, indigestion, disorders of the nervous system, nervous break-down, etc. If Mercury is afflicted by Mars, there will be disputes, litigation, loss through theft, risky ventures, hasty decisions leading to public scandal and criticism, loss through fraud and cheating and forgery or the native may himself commit such crimes. If Mercury is afflicted by Saturn, all the efforts of the native will be delayed and he may be disappointed and depressed. It may cause dishan cony and dispute and lead to debts and diseases. His education will be poor, memory poor, finance poor, health poor and retentive power absolutely absent.
