Natal Mercury in Taurus

Natal Mercury in Taurus
(Jan Spiller and Karen McCoy)

Static
If you indulge in the Taurus fear of losing tangible support, from a rational point of
view this may lead into your repeating ideas and plans. The result can be an
overstructured mind that gets tied up in a material or literal level of thought and
stifles your creativity. Indulging in the tendency to resist ideas that are not your own
can result in excluding others from assisting you in bringing your own values into
material transformation.
Dynamic
When you are willing to communicate openly and to acknowledge that the ideas of
others can be as valuable as yours, you can discover that these ideas may actually
transform and enhance your own. You can decide to use other people's ideas as
resources; thus, your own concepts gain acceptance through the resultant
transformation. When you listen to others and communicate those Taurus
perceptions of how their ideas can produce tangible results, your sense of self-worth
can be increased.
(Grant Lewi)
You are eye-minded; that is, you get your maximum sense-contact with the world
through sight rather than through sound. You get more from reading a book than
from hearing a lecture. The old silent movies are almost as good for you as talkies.
Since what you see is important, you will always strive to make your surroundings as
attractive as possible; and for this reason your home, or your office, will have some
beauty about it even when it gets disorderly. Touch is well developed, and you
visualize through your fingers - get an image in the dark of something touched, know
how a fabric will look by feeling it - and conversely, how it will feel by looking at it.
Taste and smell are fairly well-marked. You can shut out sound from your life and live
calmly through a hurricane or the squawking of children that would drive others to
distraction. You don't hear the sound of your voice accurately; and sometimes for this
reason you sound other than how you feel. Study elocution, and learn to pay attention
to what meets your ears.
(Sydney Omarr)
In Taurus, Mercury tells of one who gains more from sight than sound: he gains much
from reading, from visual demonstrations, from watching, observing, absorbing
knowledge. He may appear slow to learn; but once his lessons are learned, they stick.
He can be obstinate, but also loyal. He has strong likes and dislikes - but generally
the native is diplomatic. He can smile at you - but it is not easy to know what he is
thinking. He appears to be slow in speech, but this is because he measures his words.
(Skye Alexander)
You are the type who never speaks unless you have something to say. Not one to
waste words or engage in frivolous small talk, you appear to be hoarding words as a
miser hoards gold. Others sometimes assume (incorrectly) that you are unsociable or
dull-witted. In truth, you aren't glib or articulate, and your vocabulary isn't extensive.
Unless you also have several planets in more loquacious signs like Gemini,
Sagittarius or Aquarius, it's not likely that you'll write the next great American novel.
You prefer to communicate in other ways - physically, or through art or music - than
with language skills.
This does not mean, however, that you aren't as intelligent as your more verbally
adroit friends; only that you don't demonstrate your intelligence with words. Instead,
you might be a brilliant painter, dancer or musician. You may not have been a very
good student, and learning new subjects might have come more slowly to you than to
others. Perhaps you never had an opportunity to develop your intelligence fully or to
get a good education. As a result, you might feel somewhat inadequate or inferior
about your mental capabilities even as an adult. When speaking before a crowd, you
may become tongue-tied or feel awkward; and ywhen you have to write a report,
paper, even a letter, you often find yourself at a loss for words. Expressing what you
really think and feel can be a struggle for you.
Your memory is good, however; and even though you may not grasp ideas quickly,
you retain what you learn. You demonstrate common sense, and are able to apply
your knowledge in practical ways. In particular, you may have a good head for
business and finance. You are also known for your determination, steadiness and
reliability.
You rarely take chances, and usually plan carefully before undertaking any venture.
You like things to be clearly defined, down-to-earth and useful; and it is difficult for
you to grasp abstractions or theoretical constructs. Not an 'idea person', you are a
doer rather than a thinker - the one who brings the dreamer's visions to fruition. As
far as you're concerned, an idea is useless unless it can be applied in some tangible,
physical way. Although you aren't going to set the world on fire with an exciting or
revolutionary concept, without your persistence and common sense all those
'brainstorms' would never become realities.
Philosophically conservative, you hold onto traditional ideas and beliefs firmly, and
are not easily swayed or influenced by popular opinion or the attitudes of others.
There is a sense of security in concepts that have been around for a while; and you
don't see why things can't remain the same forever. You want everything to be simple
and clear-cut; ambiguity, complexity and 'gray areas' baffle you. Once you've made
up your mind, you aren't likely to change it, and can be exremely stubbron. Taurus's
symbol is the bull; and the term 'bull-headed' certainly applies to you.
If your chart contains aspects between Mercury and Jupiter or Uranus, you'll be more
talkative and intellectually expansive, and more eager to pursue knowledge for its
own sake.
(Marion D. March and Joan McEvers)
You are stubborn and have definite likes and dislikes. Acquisitive and fond of money
and material goods, you are interested in both the arts and the opposite sex. Your
mind does not react readily to new ideas; and once you start a project you rarely give
up. You never jump to conclusions; you like to hear all the evidence first. Mentally
you are conservative, cautious and constructive. You depend more on life experience
than on book learning. Your memory is good, and your approach is traditional. Your
mind is practical; and this is an excellent position for business and management. If
this placement has difficult aspects, you can tend towards mental inertia, but trying
to push yourself into action will not help; you need to work at your own rate of speed.
(Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)
Mercury placed in the sign Taurus indicates natives whose thinking and decisionmaking
are determined by whatever has a practical, material and financial
application. Although perhaps lacking in brilliance or originality, they posess much in
the way of practical common sense. Hence they have shrewd business minds and a
natural bent for management. They are slow to form opinions, but once they do they
are reluctant to change. Similarly, they dislike argument and disharmony, and will
fight only to protect their security and financial interests.
The ability of these natives to consider only things that are of practical concern to
them gives them great powers of concentration, such that they can ignore extraneous
disturbances as if they did not exist. They do not perceive that with which they do not
want to be bothered. If carred to far, this attitude makes them blind to important
matters that they should recognize for their own good, and explains much of their
stubbornness.
This position of Mercury can give mental ability in the arts. If Mercury is strongly
aspected, there can be talent in mathematics and physical science, because of the
Taurean - Venusian sense of form and structure which is translated into mental
understanding through Mercury. If Mercury is afflicted in this sign, there can be
intellectual obstinacy, opinionated views, materialism, and avarice.

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