With Mercury in Leo, your conscious attempts to organise your experiences
operate in the context of your belief that your methods are a sincere expr-
ession of your true purpose in life.  You therefore identify with your plans
and ways of putting them into practice in a subjective way, and you probably
attach considerable importance to the notion of being "right", since you
find it hard to separate the means from the ends.  This makes you quite strong
minded, for you feel that if people question your way of doing things, they
are questioning your validity as a person.  While you realise that motivation
is an integral driving force behind getting things done, care should be taken
to see that the two do not interfere with each other.  That way you will be
more objective about your behaviour, and you will probably also be more eff-
icient if you concentrate on the practicals of the matter in hand rather than
thinking ahead to the end-product of your efforts.  If you do this, you are
likely to notice that people support your methods, both because they work in
practice, and because you show a sense of total commitment in addition.
With Mercury in Virgo, your conscious attempts to organise your experiences
operate in the context of your appreciation that considerable attention to
detail is required if life is to run smoothly.  You therefore take an anal-
ytic approach to tasks, breaking them down into small steps, and proceeding
to execute each step logically and in the right order.  This is excellent
for those matters where efficiency and predictability are essential, and
your judgement and critical faculties are strongly developed, even if you
tend to pay rather obsessional attention to apparently trivial matters.
This is only likely to be a problem either if you get so involved in your
methods that you lose sight of the overall purpose, or if you try to oper-
ate using your critical faculties outside of those areas where they are
appropriate.  Thus using your organisational ability at work or in some
hobby is much more likely to be appropriate than trying to organise your
emotional life or indulging in too much self-criticism when you fail to
satisfy your own high expectations of yourself.
With Mercury in Libra, your conscious attempts to organise your experiences
operate in connection with your theoretical overview of the nature of real-
ity in totality.  This makes it difficult for you to make quick practical
decisions, for before you choose a specific approach to a problem, you have
to weigh up the pros and cons of a fair number of alternatives.  This may
give you a good ability to deal with abstractions, but you may hesitate to
commit yourself in practise for fear of closing other options, or you may
temporise by making compromises.  You are likely to be tactful and diplom-
atic in speech, and you may prefer others to organise things, unless their
plans are distasteful to you to such an extent that you retreat into your
world of ideas and fail to cooperate.  You will do best to realise that
theory and practice are complementary, and that one is little use without
the other, then you can develop the ability to separate the planning stage
from the execution stage, rendering you able to operate more effectively
and with greater confidence.
With Mercury in Scorpio, your conscious attempts to organise your experiences
are coloured by your appreciation of emotional considerations.  Your methods
depend on how you feel about an issue that needs to be dealt with.  If your
interest is not aroused in a task, you will avoid it, either by doing some-
thing else, or by sabotaging the execution of the job by non-cooperation or
making sarcastic quips about how pointless the exercise may be.  However,
if your interest is aroused, you will put considerable emotional effort into
organising things in your own way depending on the emotional results you aim
to achieve, and you will argue and act quite forcibly when your passions are
aroused.  Thus to an observer your level of involvement is somewhat variable
and subjective, which makes it hard for others to fathom out your motives
and your methods, even though with your keen understanding of human nature
you may consider your actions to be very obvious in significance.  Your in-
tensity is not lost on others, and your methods are likely to meet with
either strong support or strong opposition.
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