Budha/Mercury

Budha/Mercury

The Mercury represents the concept of 'Buddhi' or intellect, which is the ability to discriminate, communicate, generalize and learn. Mercury is the planet of communication, and it signifies the areas of commerce, trade, accounts, banking and computers. A well-placed Mercury can result into a successful career as writers, astrologers, mathematician, engineer, dealers, brokers and businessperson sculptors, salesman, lectures and artists. Those with a strong Mercury also believes in logic, are extremely logical, and have an excellent reasoning and analytic ability. A strong Mercury can also lead to repression of emotions with reason and can make for a very critical nature. On the contrary, a weakly placed Mercury can lead to a person to rely more on emotions and instincts rather than on reason and also lead to difficulties in learning, speech, the skin, nervous system and reduce the capacity to retain knowledge. Physiologically, the Mercury rules over the skin and nervous system.