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Demystifying Astrology: Just What Can You Tell From A Chart Anyway… AKA Little Things Mean A Lot, Redux
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On the little things mean a lot front, I want to give you an idea how wide the range of information you can get from a chart. I’m going to use Mercury as an example because while it’s critical (that’s a Virgo joke), it’s importance is discounted in astrology pretty much as a matter of routine for being un-sexy I suppose. Having Libra, I could argue that. Some say sex is all in the mind.
Mercury rules the mind, communication, siblings, transportation, short trips, neighbors, the hands and some other parts of the body that come in pairs, lungs for example.
This means if you look Mercury in someone’s chart you can tell how they get along (or not) with their siblings and neighbors. You can tell how they drive, how they think, what their hands look like without even seeing them.
You can tell how fast they are going to move, how fast they process information and what they do with the information for that matter.
Do they broadcast it like I do with Mercury conjunct Mars in the big mouth 9th house, or do they covet their information and share very little?
If they do share very little is it because they are private (Pluto influence) or scared of rejection of their ideas (Saturn influence)?
You get the idea. Some people notice hands… the surely notice mine. Think I have girly hands with Mars conjunct Mercury? ::laughs::
My hands have been banged up, burned and in one case my left hand bled for more than 3 years due my wedding ring cutting into it.
I could go on and on but I hope you can see that the information that you can glean from each planet in a chart is endless and if you don’t think that understanding how a person thinks is important, you’ve probably got Neptune involved with Mercury. 
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32 Responses to “Demystifying Astrology: Just What Can You Tell From A Chart Anyway… AKA Little Things Mean A Lot, Redux”
I have Mercury 27 Aquarius Rx in the first house. It opposes Uranus - 23 Leo in the 7th. My Sun is 8 Pisces, also in an intercepted first house. I suppose it could be considered a conjunction. They say the Mercury Rx can indicate slow learners or thinkers. I’m actually quite intelligent. I find that when Mercury goes Rx by transit, I tend to communicate more. Or do things that most people avoid during Mercury Rx. I bought a new computer in 08 and a new car this year. I’ve learned what not to do, though, too!
How they drive, what they drive…
For example, someone like me would never have a dense lumbering car. Scooter type, or quick little car weaving in and out of traffic.
Or a TRUCK. Masculine, see? Vrooooooooom
NO MINI VAN 
Mercury in Pisces in 11th opposing Jupiter in Virgo in 5th… Mutual reception baby
I get along VERY WELL with my two younger brothers - perhaps in a deeply emotional almost unseen level. While most people close to me often fight or are not very close to their siblings, my brothers and I have a very very strong bond.
I did drive for a while, but I prefer riding my bicycle. If I drive, I prefer something used (Wow, Piscean, isn’t it?) and very utilitarian - gets me from Point A to Point B. I really don’t care
With my bicycle - I own a Trek hybrid 24 speed bike that scales hills like nobody’s business. And it’s BLUE… very beautiful electric blue with pixelated flowers
I think emotionally, intuitively AND on the fly. I work best when creativity is allowed to “flow” and not required to be “planned”, which is my big struggle as a design professional at times. As a makeup artist, however, my way of communicating and working works WONDERFULLY!
Hands… small, long fingers. Girly.
Mercury in Sagittarius conjunct uranus, moon, and sun in the 6th house. Mars in aries trine mercury
No idea what that means.
I have ugly jammed fingers from years of playing basketball and smaller hands than most people I know. I like really long trips where I can daydream. I don’t like drivers that cut me off or that think they can drive better than me.
I like comfortable cars. Spacious, almost like a hangout.
I have a half brother who I never see so I wouldn’t know how I am around him. I’m very demanding in my house.
hah. I drive like a taurus (careful & polite, except when someone does something stupid that coulda’ hurt my kid… then I get royally pissed…..)
and I drive a saturn ;P (squares the mercury.)
hey, I have a Neptunian Mercury
What does an unaspected planet tell in a chart? My Mercury doesn’t aspect any other planets, just hangs out all by itself.
goddess-Does mercury affect your memory?
i am not the best person to ask, diana. many of the folks here are a lot more knowledable than me. but i would guess it would be at least part of it, since mercury rules how you think.
Like Lunalie I’ve got Mercury in the 11th h in Pisces. Conjunct sun and mars, square uranus, sextile ascendant.
I have one brother, 4 years younger than me, and although I often find him annoying, I still consider us to be close. It’s totally intuitive, too. Even when we don’t talk much I still feel close to him. I’ve never been able to understand people who see their siblings almost as strangers.
Driving… I used to have a Prius and whenever I am able to afford another car it will definitely be a Prius again! It’s the perfect car for me. Small, yet roomy. reliable. Plus I really loved the whole 45 mpg. I tend to daydream when I drive or I get all fidgety and drive fast (square with uranus?)
I wouldn’t even be able to begin explaining how I think, but I guess maybe because it IS intuitively. I do think fast, though. (the conjunction with aqua sun and square uranus?)
My hands are very feminine, yet strong. Kind of small but not small and stubby. Like Lunalie, long fingers here too.
Thank you, goddess
My mercury is in the 12th house conjunct uranus and square my 9th house saturn.
I think intuitively and I have tended to keep alot of that to myself. I have one younger sibling that I have a very strong bond with and it is totally unacknowledged. We dont have constant contact because we don’t need to. Every now and again we see each other or speak and there is no getting used to each other time - our bond is just eternal. The other sibling is older and way too conventional for me. We see each other regularly and support each other but the bond requires effort because we are so different. This sibling complains about the other, how little she is in contact etc but it doesn’t bother me in the slightest because I am always in contact with her but on a level that my older sibling doesn’t travel on.
Mercury in Taurus/5th House. T square with Uranus (which is conjunct my midheaven) and Saturn in the 8th. Mercury is also conjunct Chiron.
My hands are healing hands. I’ve done energy work, and hope one day to integrate my love for art (I’m attending an art college full-time, working towards BFA) with that kind of work.
I am highly intuitive and pick up on a lot of things through physical contact with other people. It takes discipline and faith which I don’t always have.
I go to school with a bunch of Pluto in Scorpio gals who are a fair bit younger than me and are always asking me for hugs. I love those gals. I’m a great hugger (though not some creep who goes around offering them, ew).
Siblings…well with that T-square there’s no surprise my 3 sisters and I have a lot of problems over the years. We’re not the Waltons.
Car…don’t drive (don’t know how…this year I hope), but I ride a bicycle daily.
I’m queen of the long bus journey. I taken zillions of them. India to Kathmandu, 30 hours and 22 military checkpoints, what a trip that was. I loved every second.
Mercury in Cancer, 9th house, opposed Saturn in Capricorn. Have no idea how that affects my driving, but I barf my brains out on any form of water transportation, even a big-ass cruise ship, lol. Also can get motion-sickness very easily if I am not driving, no way can I read in the car (get the barf-bag if I do, lol).
Mercury (and moon) in Libra trine Saturn.
NO MINI VAN.Car can be unassuming but must be fun and zippy. I can actually say I have nice hands. I frown when friends have bad hands. I want my friends to look nice, somewhat fashionable and groomed, its important. I can definitely argue a point but that might not be my mercury, I’m not sure.
I’m another Mercury in Aquarius.
I drive, frankly, like a man. I’m all about the carefully controlled speed, prefer to drive a standard over an automatic, like performance; all that jazz.
As for family? My family is dysfunctional, and I prefer not to deal with my immediate family on my father’s side (including him).
My mother had very little family, and she passed away about 8 years ago, so I don’t have any contact with her side.
I’m mostly an island unto myself, these days, family-wise.
My mercury is conjunct Mars in Cap and back in the old days, before computers, I was a graphic artist on the drawing board using pens and pencils and rulers for 10 years. I figure this work required skilled hand-eye co-ordination as a high level motor skill and of course very practical producing tangible results by putting ideas into form.
mercury in aquarius, 5th house… sextile venus,trine mars…. opposition uranus and opposition pluto…and one more, conjunct chiron..a little too much to think abt at once!…a look at the last piece..mercury in 5th conjunct chiron in pisces in 6th..i do reiki, that seems to fit there
…as for driving…i only owned one car, an unsual vw bug model that was a very funky semi-automatic…shifting gears without a clutch, i called her Emy…was very fond of that car although it broke down all the time…aquarian mercury trine mars in cancer?
also drove a suzuki suzy motor bike for one year in the dom. republic…could be mars kicking in there also?
Mercury in Capricorn, Fifth house. I drive what I’ve been given to drive! It started out with a brand new VW when I turned 16, then when I got my first speeding ticket a year later, my parents took it away and gave me an old Buick. Then my significant other for three years gave me a rotation or old VW’s depending on what he had available for me to drive at any given moment. After we broke up, I requested to keep one of his cars, then after the next break up with another boyfriend, he gave me a run-down car, and now my parents have given me their old Volvo…
I expect my husband or his parents will probably provide me with a newer car after I graduate. I don’t expect it, it’s just how it goes with me. If I don’t have a car, I don’t drive, and before you know it, SOMEONE feels like they have to make sure I have a car.
Sure, I don’t mind that.
Mercury and Sun in Scorpio, 10th house. I move fast while I’m thinking about a lot of deep stuff. So … sometimes it’s spooky especially when I’m in driving somewhere new. “LOST” happens, and then I find my way back in ways most people would never think about.
I drive a practical Forrester because I never know when my car will be my home. Is there TURTLE in the astro signs?
My hands are small, tapered and do a lot of my talking.
Mercury in Virgo conjunct Venus/Pluto. Long and graceful fingers (I’ve been told), but I don’t do polish because it’s not practical enough for this Virgo! Gets in the way of cooking all that healthy food.
Mercury at 28 degrees in my 12th house Taurus.
I normally don’t drive - I take the bus or walk - but when I get a car I want fast roads and open highways and I wanna motorvate. (Thank you Chuck Berry - that’s a great Gemini word!) I don’t think I drive like a Taurus, but normally I want to travel in comfort and style, and lounge on the bus like it’s my private green room. I have music, a book or two, snacks, and possibly a friend quietly on the phone to keep me company. This for a 15 minute bus ride. *grin*
I have a picture of my hands, too -
http://x6c.xanga.com/0fa8367bc10333365935/w3178468.jpg with any luck that is clicky
mars conjunct mercury in Leo. I drive showy cars with style, they are older classic cars, and this combo suits the fourth/fifth straddle of the conjunction. Plus, I like a stick shift.
Mercury sextiles uranus, saturn and venus which is just right for my unusual flashy cars, driven fast and carefully(It’s an art)The mars trines neptune. I’m ALWAYS blasting music in the car.
Along with eyes, hands are among a mans most attractive features as far as I am concerned.
I have very promenent hands, long fingers, I gesture constantly and red nails.
Mercury conjunct Sun in Cancer, 3rd house. Trine Uranus. Square Pluto. Sextile Saturn.
I’m a very private person, got big hands for a girl, think and act very quickly, and if I drove, I would drive a muscle car painted bright blue, cruise down a highway with the windows down and the music loud!
Lindsey I have the same mercury/chiron in the 5th and i also do reiki. coolio.
er, sorry, different sign but similar house placement. what degrees are yours at? my chiron is a 2 degrees and my mercury at 6.
i have mercury on the cusp of 11/12 house in scorpio, and it conjuncts pluto, squares mars, trine jupiter and sextile neptune.
i have big hands, but quite feminine, and long fingers. i can reach more than 8 keys on the piano, but i dont play (such a shame haha) i did play the cello. I have very good hand-eye coordination and like to make things with my hands. When i’m on the phone, or sitting down and talking to someone, my hands are always doing something (doodling, making things with scrap paper etc).
i like learning, or the idea of learning. having mercury on the cusp of the 12th house makes my thinking process murky, but deep. I’m very private (pluto) with my thoughts. i’m always more interested in what others have to say instead of sharing my own thoughts just because most of the time i really cant put my thoughts into words. This is a major issue i have to work on.
my nails grow really fast.
10th House Aquarius Mercury (conjunct Venus, square Mars, sextile Saturn).
I get along really well with my only sibling but we live 15 minutes apart and only see each other once or twice a year. He has Mercury square Uranus so I’m guessing that adds a detached flavour to his thinking too. We talk on the phone occasionally but only when he calls me (his Mercury is in the 3rd house) to ask my opinion on something about our mother (he has Cancer Moon) that he can’t decide. He expects ME, a Piscean, to decide for him?? LOL.
Men’s hands are the first things I notice too… for the same reason as you, Elsa. No ugly hands are going to be touching me thank.you.very.much! My own hands are a little masucline with shorter fingers and a square palm but I usually have feminie silver arty looking rings on 3 fingers of my right hand.
I drive a black Ford Focus with a personalised plate that says “VONZ” with a plate surround that says “sexy bitches drive black cars”. Not sure which transit made me buy that LOL. I know it’s bad but I often text and drive (it’s not illegal over here… yet).
kashmiri, hi…was just reading back on the reiki connection…my mercury is at 28 in aq and chiron is at 3 in pisces…also, i’m going to comment on your other blog now (abt pluto transiting asc.)
Mercury is pretty prominent in my chart - conjunct my asc., trined by Uranus, trining my 4th house moon in Aries, but squared by 9th house Pluto. Prefer small, fast cars (but not a red sports car, something more subtle and surprising)but I have no trouble managing big ones, even trucks. I am “handy” - mechanical, ms. fixit - hands sort of big, sort of long, always have been thin but not too delicate. Hard to keep them still under all circumstances.
I have Mercury conjunct Venus and Uranus in Cancer in the 9th, square my ascendant and also square Neptune in the 12th. Not sure what that all means so I’m going to look it up.
I am close with most of my 6 sibs, but there’s a couple of sisters who’ve chosen to keep their distance from the family so decided to leave them alone for a while. We were raised mostly by our mostly single mother, who passed away a couple of years ago, so I think we may be milling about a bit (no compass, see) and will re-form again, at least that’s my hope.
As to what I drive, that’s a weird history in itself. In the last 8 years I could have joined the Car-of-The-Month Club, I went through so many vehicles, but right now I’m driving a ‘98 Honda with a stoved-in passenger door, but I’m nothing but grateful for it ‘coz for a while there I was on the hoof (no car). I live in a rural state so it’s hard w/ no car, there’s no public transportation. As to how I drive, I used to tailgate and be impatient, but my driving’s mellowed out some as I got older, though I still drive faster than the speed limit.
As to hands, mine are strong and brown and balanced-looking I guess, with long fingers. They’ve worked hard and fed and provided for my children and I appreciate them very much. I like hands though, and I like mine too even though my thumbs say I’m too bossy.
It is so amazing what astrology can tell you, about so many things - big and small! And even though I have Neptune squared my Mercury I’m starting to understand it - wow!
Great post, Elsa P. Thanks!
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