Mecury rules Gemini and Virgo.
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun.
Mercury is known as the swift messanger of the gods.
Mercury is said to be the mind, the intellect. This is partially true. A more comprehensive description of Mercury would be, Mercury is the way we understand ourselves as well as the physical, social & spiritual worlds around us. Mercury's sign and house placement reflects the energetic signature of how our mind will collect, sort & discern information. It represents how we communicate, what sparks our curiosity, & reveals what we are a voice for in the world. Our language, logic, timing, movement of our ideas, & mode of learning are all flavoured by our mercury signature.
Mercury is the impulse to be curious about life. Mercury seeks out experiences & opens doorways, both figuratively and literally. The Sun seeks experience, Mercury helps us understand experience.
The Tarot card associated with Mercury is The Magician.
The Magician Card represents having all that you need to achieve your goals. It can often signify the beginning of a project and having all the resources you need available to you. The Magician is a card of manifestation. It represents willpower and skill and is the connection between etheric energy and physical reality. The Magician is a card of communication and can often signify the ability to be adaptable and sillful in communicating
The Magician is associate with Mercury, the mind and intellect. The energy of the card may be expressed as a focused mind or experienced as anxiety and worry. The Magician connects us to the expression of the intellect, and as such can represent thoughtfulness, mindfulness, wit, logic, or the need to be cunning. The Magician represents the archetypal of the wise man, wizard or sharman.
Arthur Edward Waite, the author of the Rider-Waite tarot describes the Magician as having the countenance of Apollo. This talks to the close relationship between The Sun (Apollo) and The Magician (Mercury). The Sun seeks experience, The Magician helps us understand experience, brings ideas into form, and supports the Sun’s urge to shine in the world through mastery and success.
The Magician holds one hand in the air, the other pointed towards the grounds, smbolsing that as in above so is below. On the table before the Magician lay the four elements represented by the wand, pentacle, sword, and cup. This represents the Magician ability to tap into the elements of life, the resources of the natural and etheric world and bring thought into form. The infinity symbol above his head symbolises the endless process of becoming and transformation.