The mind may be somewhat combative and argumentative and can easily be motivated by selfish concerns in addition to being impulsive, inventive, and creative. Mercury in Taurus makes the mind practical, constructive, determined, deliberative, patient, persevering, stubborn, and steady. Thoughts tend to be considered, slow, conservative, and indelibly registered. The mind is able to hold ideas, give careful judgments, evaluate feelings, and appreciate the arts and music. Mercury in Gemini is dignified making the mind quick, versatile, perceptive, observant, studious, logical, ingenious, clever, inquisitive, and ever active.
Thoughts are free, restless, changeable, and adaptable.
The mind is communicative, witty, humorous, fast, usually open and skilled in language, science, and the arts. Mercury in Cancer makes the mind receptive, emotional, reflecting, retentive, impressionable, sensitive, and intuitive. Thoughts tend to be connected to feelings, the surroundings, and often have a good sense of rhythm. The mind tends to think about feelings and can be susceptible to depression. Mercury in Leo is fallen making the mind willful, commanding, creative, expressive, noble, compassionate, comprehensive, speculative, confident, generous, and dramatic.