Mercury
personal · cycle 88 days · retrograde every 116 days
Dignities
Hellenistic tradition
Mercury rules Gemini (diurnal) and Virgo (nocturnal). Exalted and ruling in Virgo, a rare double dignity.
Modern Western reading
Modern Western astrology reads Mercury as the principle of language, exchange, and analytical structuring.
Reference, not advice
This is cultural and astronomical reference, not personal prediction or advice.
Cycle periods are mean orbital values. Traditional interpretations paraphrased from primary classical and modern sources. See sources.
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