The Magician

Mercury is unique, as it is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
-A youthful figure in the robe of a magician, having the countenance of divine Apollo, with smile of confidence and shining eyes.sacredtexts.com via Tarot.fandom.com.
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 After The Fool has set off on his journey we then meet Mercury, the messenger of the Gods and the fastest moving planet in our solar system depicted in the Tarot as The Magician. "Whether you are an apprentice training to become a master electrician and unravelling the mysteries of high voltage, or a medical student, grinding away night and day, studying the secrets of the human body and using the available technologies to help your patients, …or a trainee in one of the psychoanalytic schools, you are in exactly the same position as the apprentice shaman or witch doctor in tribal societies. You are spending large amounts of time, energy, and money in order to be initiated into rarefied realms of secret power.”
Active Shadow: The Manipulator. "He can only sit on his rock and think. The years pass. He wonders where the time has gone. And he ends by regretting a life of sterility.”
the Arcanum of the Magician is associated with the planet Mercury and carries with it skill, logic, and intellect. The number of the Magician is one, the number of beginnings. The Magician is the bridge between the world of the spirit and the world of humanity. He represents intellectual geniality which Tomberg defines as the “vision of the unity of beings and things through the immediate perception of their correspondences”. This state is the synthesis of the conscious and the unconscious. This corresponds to the process of “individuation” as described by Jung. 
The Magician represent the man Who has attained harmony and equilibrium; Between the spontaneity of the unconsciousness (as understood by Jung); And the deliberate action of the consciousness (as an “I” or ego). The true and the desired find their synthesis in the enjoyable, which has two effects: 1) It lightens the burden associated with duties of the true. 2) It raises the darkness of instinctive forces to the level of light and consciousness.
The climax to the Letter on the Magician is the transformation of the Child or Puer archetype into the Self archetype represented by the Magician.
See: Archetypes; Symbolic Men; Symbolons;
[Credit to Cologero.]
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