With Mercury in Aries, your conscious attempts to organise your experiences
are expressed directly and in a personal way, for your unconscious desires
influence your logical thought processes to a considerable extent.  This
gives you an incisive mind, and one which is curious and original, for you
want to take the lead when it comes to organising your own life.  You prob-
ably enjoy a good argument, for you learn by pitting your ideas and methods
against those of other people.  However you identify strongly with your ideas
and methods, which may indicate a tendency to make the ends justify the means
or you may indulge in some innocent plagiarism.  This is not done with any
inherently harmful purpose in mind, it is more that you feel a strong sense
of urgency when it comes to expressing your ideas, and you will use whatever
methods are available to you.  To make the best of your fertile mind, you
should try to realise that organisation can be achieved more effectively when
you are able to achieve greater objectivity in your methods, although your
spontaneous enthusiasm may make it hard for you to slow down a bit.
With Mercury in Taurus, your conscious attempts to organise your experiences
are expressed in a practical way, for your thought processes operate with a
keen unconscious appreciation of the way the world really is, or at least
appears to be.  Your methodology tends to be rather down to earth, for you
know from experience that ways and means that are tried and tested are most
likely to produce results in practice.  Thus you may tend to operate on a
sort of "autopilot" basis much of the time, taking a considerable amount for
granted.  On the positive side, your methods come rather naturally to you,
and you are reluctant to change them as they appear to work for you, and
you can be quite strong-minded when the occasion demands, even if other
people regard you as being more pig-headed.  However, you do need to re-
evaluate your methods from time to time in the light of your current exper-
iences, for unless your personality shows other signs of ability to change,
you may tend to get stuck in fixed patterns of behaviour which could prevent
you form taking advantage of altered circumstances.
With Mercury in Gemini, your conscious attempts to organise your experiences
operate in a rather haphazard way, since when running your life you conform
more to ideas which stem from your unconscious than to practical consider-
ations of the matter in hand.  While this gives you a broad theoretical basis
from which to operate, and you may come up with original and versatile sol-
utions to practical problems, your methods are unconventional and idiosyncr-
atic.  You have a high level of curiousity, and are likely to be quite ex-
perimental in testing out your ideas and methods, and your inquisitiveness
makes you rather talkitive, for you question everything just for the sake
of it in the interest of furthering your understanding.  You should remember,
however, that your own particular brand of "logic" may be quite illogical as
other people see it, and they may see you as being difficult to pin down to
any concrete action, despite an agile display of mental gymnastics.  To make
the best of your original approach, you need to develop the ability to put
some of your plans into execution with greater efficiency and timing.
With Mercury in Cancer, your conscious attempts to organise your experiences
are coloured by your emotions, so that you prefer methods which feel right
to you, probably those which have worked well in the past.  You tend to be
a creature of habit when it comes to running the details of your life, and
you feel insecure when something turns up to upset your routine.  The sub-
jective nature of your methods carries certain advantages and drawbacks.
On the positive side, you can handle the details of life in a caring con-
siderate way, generating sympathy and support for your behaviour by the
consideration you show for other people, and you may well enjoy being able
to support them in your own way.  However, when you are upset emotionally,
you find it difficult to react constructively to sort out the practical
aspects of your problems, and you may instead resort to defensive sulking
or unreasonable emotional outbursts.  While feelings are certainly import-
ant to you, and your sensitivity can be an asset, you will benefit if you
learn that there are times when practicality should take precedence.
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