Good morning ladies and gentlemen wherever you are. I hope you are safe
With everything that's going on in the world now
Okay, so today we are going to be talking a little bit about
The two faces of Mercury we finished Venus and Mars
Now let's talk about Mercury. Mercury is as you recall the intellect
Mercury is not the mind according to Vedic texts
They digs the Vedic texts you have to understand
Distinguish between the mind and the intellect
The mind is called Manas
Or an intellect is called Chit Shakti or the ability of the intellect to distinguish
Between one thing or the other it may be anything
It may be any aspect any area of thinking or thought
So
Mercury as understood by Vedic texts is more of intellect energy
Whereas the mind is
Denoted in Vedic texts for the moon
Nammanas the mind has a confluence of thoughts and emotions tendencies compulsions
That which we bring forth from our past lies impressions or what is called as samskaras
The memories the soul memories which it carries from previous
Lifetimes as a collection of tendencies
Which again come to this lifetime and tend to play out in the internal and the external world
All right, we digress so
Mercury today we have when we speaking about the intellect the mind but as the intellect
Everything is the mind essentially everything is the first house which we carry
To every area of our life as the eleven other houses, okay?
But today we are going to talk about the dual side the two faces of mercury
as the intellect the first one
first sign being of
Gemini or the third
Zodiac sign when Gemini becomes the ascendant remember we are focused in all these podcasts is the ascendant
Unraveling and the ascendant if the ascendant or what is also called as the rising sign is studied in depth
That in itself can be a whole discussion
So we are focusing on that the self
It's all about self growth folks if we don't know where we are we don't know where we need to go properly
So Gemini number three on the zodiac list
What is it going by and it's ruled by Mercury in the first house two signs are ruled by Mercury in the first house
Gemini number three and Virgo number six
So the three and six are what we want to be speaking about in this one
So in three what happens in Gemini what happens?
In Gemini
Mercury becomes a Rajasic dual and male sign
So Rajasic meaning once again the energy just moves between Satva and Thomas. They're always
Moving the Rajasic energy is passionate energy. It's the desire factor which we all have in this existence
In this dimension, so Rajasic is something that moves constantly so
Mercury that's why in
Gemini will be always be constantly moving and it's a male sign. So it goes outward
It is not inwardly directed. It is outwardly directed into the world
from me to the rest of the world
It is dual sign now, what are these dual signs dual signs are
characterized in Vedic astrology as something that is caught in duality
They will always be having if you say one thing, they will also be about what about this?
Or if you say that the other one then say yeah, but what about this?
So they are always caught between
two ends or two polar opposites of duality duality is what the play of opposites and
Because it's a Rajasic and it's a male sign
They're always doing this play this mercury wants to play on the external world in the world of dual
dualistic
opinions
thoughts remember we are talking about the intellect so it's all about the intellectual part of the mind, okay?
So that's what it's playing out as in Gemini as the ascendant and
Like I said, wherever the whatever the Lord of the first house is it looks at its focus is towards
whichever the other Lord of the houses right to two faces
So wherever number three situated in your chart, it is looking at number six
Right, so where is the number six located for the Gemini as an it's located in the fourth house?
Which is Thomasic dual and female?
So it goes from a Rajasic dual male to number six Virgo, which is Thomasic dual and female which is sitting now in the fourth house
Okay, so in the fourth house, what is the focus fourth house represents?
mother motherland
house vehicles real estate
represents the heart energy
so
for
Gemini as an it they're always focused more on the affairs of the home affairs of the heart
Because that's where the natural mercury will take them towards right
That's how it plays out and
Depending upon my mercury is physically placed in the chart. This is just the themes
This is just the Lord of the houses Lord of number three and Lord on number six is mercury
But physically the planet might be anywhere between one to twelve houses
From there it is looking at both of these aspects and a
Combination of three six and physically where the mercury is placed is how the mercury should be judged as per
very astrology
Let us see number six now
The second aspect of mercury second phase of mercury is number six or Virgo the virgin
The one which is the creative earth remember Gemini was the breeze is the air sign
That's why air signs are more
mental in
Nature because their attention or their prana shakthi or their life force is drawn towards some intellectual part
The mercury being the air sign there
the second one here Virgo is
in
number six and
Number six Virgo if you remember the last podcast we talked about Virgo as the ascendant is the creative earth
It's an earth sign
So here the mercury becomes Thomasic dual and female right there. It should tell you Thomasic means it wants some
grounding
This is very intellect seeks grounding or making it to physical manifestation
That's why we're going in sir always about physical manifestation
How would do this on a practical level? They are practical intellectual people
That's why these Virgo Nians make very good accountants finance people
bankers
The physical people who wanted to stuff realize it physically they are obsessed about health
They are these are the ones who have spas who are into gym and trimming and nutrition
See all the earthly things playing out in the Virgo ascent it so mercury plays out like Thomasic dual again
Again, it is shuttling between this. Oh, I gotta do this but what about that or if you say that then what about this?
So they are caught between two polar ends of duality and it's a female science. It's more introverted
Now this Thomasic and female science is an interesting combination because in the zodiac list number one all the way through number 12
All the Thomasic science really belong to females
There is not a single sign
Which is Thomasic and it's a male sign
This is interesting and we'll cover this male and female science later on which is to note on the side
So for the Virgo Nien ascendant again, which is the Lord of the house first house is
Mercury as the intellect
Where it is number three land remember we spoke of wherever whatever the Lord of the first house
It looks first towards the Lord of them
Wherever other houses ruled by Mercury which in this case is three
Gemini for the Virgo Nien ascendant Gemini comes into the 10th house
In the house of carrier in the house of seeking fame recognition
Therefore Virgo Nien will always be drawn towards how do I make it in the world?
What is my name and fame and career and recognition in the world? What do I do for a career? They have very career focused people
Gemini on the other hand even though if it was ruled by Mercury they were focused on the fourth house aspect the home the family
This is how Virgo Nien and
Gemini
Differ like opposite ends of the spectrum even though they are ruled by the same Lord or the same planet Mercury in this case
The intellect shining into different aspects the internal of the home of the heart world or carrier or
Brain or intellect as outward in career world
So this my take on
the two faces of intellect
Mercury
After Mercury comes Mars, but we've already dealt with Mars. So next we will talk about two faces of Jupiter
The next bigger planet which has got two faces tomorrow in the meantime
Go through the rest of my podcast
If you're not following this from the beginning as in the ascendents look at the 12 ascendents general series
Which I have made which I call right from Aries the individual fire to
Leo the creative fire to such areas the purifying fire etc
You should get the general energies of all of this first as the very texts would describe it
And combined with esoterics in my intuition. I am made those
So just have a look at that and then it'll help you better in your study
Even if you are practicing only Vedic as Western astrology plot charts, it'll help you get the energies of it first
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