The soul is the true experiencer of the consciousness, but our direction and consequent awareness depends on how and where we focus the mind. Mercury in the Signs Mercury in Aries makes the mind active, quick, assertive, idealistic, innovative, independent, and forceful. Thoughts will tend to come in surges, with much enthusiasm for new ideas, starting projects, and initiating mental activities. 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.