Personality. The vital energy that flows from the Sun through the solar system, enabling life
to exist and its activities to be pursued; inspiring men to the consciousness of a destiny to be
achieved: the sense of purpose that is recognized by MacDougal and the psychologists of the
Purposivistic School; ambitious, with good organizing and executive ability. The solar
influence is reflected in an impression of power in reserve; an outspoken and worldly-wise
counselor; a strong individuality with an urge toward acquisition of power. Emanates an
impression of dignity, grandeur, wisdom, authority, will and lofty spirituality. Restless under
restraint, it operates more through inspiration than intellect. A strong paternal instinct.
Generous, masterful, honest, truthful and creative; vital, forceful, sanguine, dignified. Power,
honor, fame, pride, influence. When frustrated may become ostentatious, despotic,
ceremonious, and fond of pomp and ritual.
Moon: Higher emotional faculties such as faith, hope and charity, veneration, peace-loving.
The instinctive mind, the desire-nature with respect to material things; the external reactions
to every-day affairs and to those pertaining to the home and domestic life; moods that
fluctuate between the extremes of optimism and pessimism; ideas that are not abstract;
ingenuity applicable to concrete purposes and practical ends; a mind that fluctuates and that
lacks the ability to concentrate, hence easily influenced; sympathy, not compassion; respect
for the old and regard for the young; suavity, kindness; love for animals; strong protective
sense, and an inclination to defend those incapable of self-defense; acute maternal instinct not
based on sex; modesty, timidity, economy, receptivity, imagination, impres- sionability,
changeableness; fond of travel; personal magnetism; psychic qualities; extra-sensory
receptivity; lymphatic, changeful, plastic, wandering, romantic, visionary, frivolous,
capricious, fanciful, unstable, procrastinating, lazy.
Mercury: Concrete mental faculties: perception of size, weight, form, color, order, position,
motion; memory, speech, intonation, phonetic inflection; thought, understanding, reason,
intelligence; vacillation, hesitancy to face issues; mental waywardness; brilliant and facile but
not profound; intellect in the abstract but not the concrete; industrious in acquiring knowledge
for its own sake, apart from any practical application or any question of right or wrong;
amasses evidence and eloquently cites statistics in support of his thesis; loves argument and
debate; cunning, crafty, subtle; a skilled technician enjoying a superficial proficiency;
literary, though not a ready writer. Mercury's highest application appears to be in the realm of
"pure reason," which, however, knows so much on both sides of a subject it experiences
difficulty in drawing a conclusion, or in holding to a conclusion once arrived at. From the
planet Mercury we have the word for the element Mercury, and its derivative effect,
mercurial. Its mental direction is largely determined by aspecting planets. v. Aspects,
planetary.
Mercury: Active, excitable, impressionable, nervous, gossipy, worrisome, witty, dextrous.