Essay
Mercury Is Not Just Intelligence
Curiosity, language, commerce, mimicry, adaptation, calculation, nerves. Quick is not the same as wise.
mercury · mind · speech
2 min read
The CapSage Archive
Browse the library
Search, or jump a shelf. 427 published entries in the CapSage library.
Looking for
Planet
House
31 entries for “mercury”
Essay
Is Mercury Retrograde Dangerous?
No. It is an optical story we have over-employed. Your contracts still need a second reading — all year.
mercury · questions · retrograde
1 min read
Short
Combust Mercury, briefly
Too close to the Sun, speech takes the father’s heat.
mercury · combustion
1 min read
Essay
Budha: the quick weather of the mind
Mercury is speech, trade, craft, calculation — and the joke that arrives too soon.
mercury · budha · speech
1 min read
Chart Study
Satyajit Ray: the seeing eye
2 May 1921, Calcutta. Cinema as Mercury-Venus craft. Time not treated as verified.
ray · mercury · craft
1 min read
Chart Study
Oscar Wilde: Beauty, Language, Defiance and the Chart
16 October 1854, Dublin. Speech as craft, visibility as weather, reversal as a public fact. Time treated as reported.
wilde · venus · mercury
1 min read
Research
Confirmation bias in the chart
You will find the story you brought. Method is how you notice.
bias · method · mercury
1 min read
Essay
Fast Transits and Slow Transits
The Moon changes sign in about two and a half days; Saturn in about two and a half years. Duration should change the weight of the claim.
transit · gochara · duration
2 min read
Chart Study
J. Krishnamurti: The Astrology of a Spiritual Rebel
11 May 1895, Madanapalle. Teaching without a pulpit he would own. The hour remains disputed enough to keep us honest.
krishnamurti · authority · chart study
1 min read