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Mercury Taurus
Mercury in Taurus
by Richard Pellard
English translation by Julien Rouger

The interpretation examples that we are suggesting are very far from being exhaustive: they only show and outline a general frame describing the issues of the combination between a zodiac Sign and a planetary family. They should therefore not be taken literally. Each being brings indeed its own responses, more or less original, to the questions raised by the different combinations zodiac Signs and planetary families. There is no magic formula. Through using the R.E.T. and of the Theory of Ages, and combining logic, observation and imagination, you will be able to develop a thousand other possible meanings, a thousand other variations on the same theme. To find out which Planets and which Signs are dominant in your birth chart, do not hesitate to visit our website and build your free mini-astrological portrait thanks to our software Astrosoft.

Disclaimer

A detailed interpretation of the meanings of a dominant Mercury in Taurus will soon be available on our website. In the meantime, we offer you the interpretation sections below. The first one begins by summarizing the meanings of a dominant Mercury (without Sign): the characteristics of the Planet in itself prevail indeed over the characteristics of the Planet in Sign.

The two subsequent sections give an overview of the combinations between Planets and Signs by associating Taurus on the one hand with the R.E.T. characteristics of Mercury on the other hand : Extensive representation (‘R’) and intensive transcendence (‘t’). Keep in mind that these texts are only valid when the relevant R.E.T. families are dominant as a whole : Sun-Venus-Mercury for the ‘R’ family and Mercury-Saturn-Pluto for the ‘t’ family. To deduce the characteristics associated with Mercury alone, you will have to disregard the characteristics associated with the Sun and Venus for the ‘R’ family, as well as the characteristics associated with Saturn and Pluto for the ‘t’ family.

The mercurian profile

Mercure ‘tR’ : ‘R’ sociabilité spontanée ► ‘t’ esprit critique Famille ‘R’ — Soleil-Vénus-Mercure : sociabilité spontanée — Représentation extensiveExtensive representation : You are an all-around sociable person, eager for varied encounters, for multiple contacts, always ready to engage in dialogue with others for the simple pleasure of communication. People interest you straightaway by their diversity, and your human curiosity is aroused by detecting the slightest sign that facilitates getting in touch. Playful, relaxed, receptive, your mind always on the move, sometimes uncatchable through your zigzags and your twirls, you are keen to remain free to start and leave the conversation whenever you please, to feel that you aren’t tied to anything or anybody. Basically, if you like chatting and communicating, you do it for fun, just to see, without ever really getting involved in your words or taking yourself seriously. Fundamentally open-minded to the others, having nothing to prove or to demonstrate, you infinitely multiply the facets of your own character and you make it your duty to be always changeable, ready to make new connections and to welcome new points of view with pleasure, curiosity and interest.

Famille ‘t’ — Mercure-Saturne-Pluton : esprit critique — transcendance intensiveIntensive transcendence : You are spontaneously open to the unknown and the unforeseeable. Distrustful towards definitive certainties, accepted theories, thought habits, and so-called sacrosanct principles, you know that the truth is multiple and that it should always be sought beyond appearances, by tracking down the slightest clues that can point towards it. For you any explanation that is meant to be unique is necessarily unsatisfying, and you never refrain yourself from criticizing or ridiculing those who claim having understood everything. Your immense and unquenchable inquisitiveness incites you to multiply your centers of interest and your fields of discovery, so that your thought doesn’t idle in a too well-known or a too dwelled-upon routine. You can occasionally be ironic, acerbic, mocking : it’s for you a way to keep away from excessive seriousness. You know how to take a wide step back from all your involvements and how to preserve your freedom to change your mind, to alter your way of thinking at any time.

Taurus ‘R’ family — Sun-Venus-Mercury: spontaneous sociability — extensive Representation

Sociable-communicative Taurus

▶ Your strengths : while being sociable and communicative, you remain circumspect and suspicious. If you open up to others, if you like to be interested, charmed, seduced, amused, you don’t want to let yourself be invaded by them. Vis-à-vis those who do not speak to you straight away, those who do not inspire you with immediate confidence, you maintain an attitude of reserve which can border on thick indifference, refractory silence ; you are all the more joyful, pleasant, funny and attractive for those you have chosen and with whom you develop bonds that are both relaxed and close. You know how to judiciously measure your efforts to gain acceptance without having to compromise yourself too much.

▶ Your weaknesses : somehow you hate being upset. Not feeling immediately understood, accepted, recognized by those you have chosen and whom you believe should never change triggers earthquakes of deep discouragement within you. You would always like to be accepted for exactly who you are, without making efforts to renew yourself in your relationships. When you feel misunderstood, you tend to make a big deal out of nothing, to exaggerate in the belief that everyone is after you personally and that you are not welcome anywhere. Added to this is a bad faith that encourages you to blame your own communication problems on others.

Taurus ‘t’ family — Mercury-Saturn-Pluto: critical mind — intensive transcendence

Critical-aloof Taurus

▶ Your strengths : It is difficult to wrest from you an approval, assent, a movement of frank acceptance in the face of what is proposed to you : you never depart from a skeptical circumspection, a thoughtful mistrust, a critical prudence. Whatever happens to you, whatever is said to you, you demand to see and observe the world around you with unindulgent insight. You don’t want to be fooled by empty talk, false promises, reassuring illusions. Worried, inquisitive, you look behind the scenes and are never satisfied with anything or anyone, neither yourself nor others. Fond of paradoxes and subtleties, you have a taste for deepening.

▶ Your weaknesses : refractory tendencies and “paranoid” of Taurus are pushed to the extreme here. You systematically split hairs, suspect everyone of veiled bad intentions, underground plots, unmentionable maneuvers. You only seem able to focus your attention on the bad side of things, complicate everything at your leisure, sometimes even getting lost in your riddles, finding yourself prisoner in your dead-end labyrinths. Pessimistic, disillusioned and hopeless, worried, anxious and perpetually dissatisfied, you endlessly dwell on your eternal unanswered questions and your anxieties that wall you in on yourself and prohibit all contact.




This article was brought to you by Richard Pellard
English translation by Julien Rouger

See also:

▶ The mercurian function ‘tR’ (transcendence of Representation)
▶ Mercurian stage (from 1 to 3 months old) : the age of communication
▶ The Mercurian on video

▶ Sun-Mercury-Venus : extensive Representation
▶ Mercury-Saturn-Pluto : intensive transcendence
▶ Dès deux mois, le réseau du langage est en marche
▶ L’Esprit Mercure de C.G. Jung : une leçon de symbolisme
▶ Taurus
▶ Taurus in natural astrology
▶ Le Taureau mythologique
▶ Le Taureau dans “La Condition solaire”
▶ “Spring” Signs

▶ Signe solaire et Signe Ascendant
▶ Astrologie, adaptation & inadaptation
▶ Change-t-on de caractère en changeant de Signe solaire ?

▶ The astronomical reality of the zodiac
▶ The zodiac and the precession of the equinoxes
▶ Zodiaque et sphère locale
▶ The human reflexology zodiac

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