Mercury


Mercury is described as a green person as the blade of Durva or panic grass. He has a distinct articulation. He is spare and thin. He is the sovereign of those who are endowed with the quality of Rajas or passion. He is exceedingly fond of fun. He delights in damage. He has plenty of bile, phlegm and wind in his composition. He has a wealth of ready energy and is a sage. It is Mercury that influences one's learning, relatives in general, discrimination, maternal uncle, friends, speech and action. Mercury, when malefic, works much misery by producing wind imperceptibly in the regions of the privities and the stomach, by bringing of leprosy, indigestion, colic, diarrhoea and other diseases, and also through the instrumentality of spirits, the devoted servants of Vishnu of whom the leader is called Budha. Mercury is mighty in Kanya and Mithuna, in his weekday, in his own Varga, in Dhanus, when without the Sun, by day as well as by night, in his northern passage (that portion of the ecliptic which lies to the north of the Equator), and in the middle of a sign. He invariably promotes fame, strength and prosperity if he be in the rising sign. Mercury is the Karaka(significator) of the 4th and 10th house. Mercury is harmful when placed in the 4th house. The Sun and Venus are friends of Mercury. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are his neutrals, and the Moon is his enemy.