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.
Thoughts are often general, proud, dignified, organized, and artistic.
The mind usually can concentrate well, focusing its energies in a particular direction like a laser. Mercury in Virgo is dignified making the mind logical, scientific, critical, diligent, prudent, perceptive, detailed, discriminative. Thoughts tend to be analytical, systematic, lucid, correct, businesslike, skeptical, and probing. The mind likes to learn, experiment, and serve by evaluation and discernment. Mercury in Libra makes the mind rational, balanced, indecisive, comparing, compromising, and esthetic.