Mercury rules the third house by nature and works there without impediment. Everyday speech, short local trips, the neighbourhood, and the restless mind are all its own ground. Such natives read constantly and indiscriminately — timetables, labels, other people's post left on the hall table. They learn a place by walking it. They pick up the local accent within weeks. Information arrives, is processed at speed, and is passed on to whoever is nearest, usually improved slightly in transit.
Siblings and their equivalents shape the intelligence. A brother or sister taught this native to argue, and the arguing never stopped. Correspondence is voluminous. The trades of the placement are the obvious ones and the native is genuinely good at them: writing, editing, teaching the young, interpretation, sales, driving, anything requiring the accurate transfer of a message from one hand to another within the same week.
The cost is the shallow draught. Enormous quantities of information pass through and very little settles; the native can discuss forty subjects and command none. Concentration is broken by any interesting distraction, and everything is interesting. Nervous irritability rises when the flow is cut off — a day without news or conversation is genuinely uncomfortable. There is also a tendency to carry gossip without malice, having repeated something before considering whether repeating it was wise.
What It Gives
- ◆Fast, versatile intelligence
- ◆Excellent written expression
- ◆Insatiable everyday curiosity
- ◆Adapts speech to any listener
What It Costs
- ◆Knowledge broad but shallow
- ◆Concentration easily broken
- ◆Repeats things without weighing
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