Rider/houserider/Cavalier – Mercury
So the first question is, does mercury from an astrological point of view work with the 1st card? and then, we can ask what else we can assign to it (i am not looking for agreement, but lively discussion):
Mercury is the son of Jupiter/Zeus (king of the gods), his name is linked to the name for merchant and trading, he is god of trade, thieves, and travel. Often is known as the messenger god, associated with methods of information collecting, processing and distributing. Mercury the planet is one of the fastest moving planets moving through each sign in about 23 days.
Mercury usually represents young people, or people you deal with data gathering. It also links to transportation and things like email, its because its about speed and information, so an email is sending information in a speedy way.
Now we have all heard people say “I wouldn’t do that, mercury is rx”, this planet is the one that’s retrograde the most , it also so it spends an awful lot of its time going backwards and redoing things that he had only just done….for example it started retrograding on 24th Jan 2012, finished 4th april, and enters back into retrograde July 14th until august 7th, then again on November 6th to November 26th 2012.
Now retrograde in the most simplistic terms is that the planets appear to be going backwards, and so it travels backwards through signs it has only just come out of, often it forces you to redo things you have done, or rethink. Whilst its doing this, other things can often get backed up, or messages doing get sent, miscommunication is ripe during this time. But the periods of retrograde are shorter then other planets, so they impact less
Mercury rules both Gemini and Virgo. the glyph. symbolises mind, over divine spirit, and matter, to me this is saying that its less physical , more mental
So now we know that he is fast, not always reliable or accurate, privileged as son of the ruler of gods, enthusiastic, friendly, intelligent, can bring people or ideas together
so anything more we can add about mercury...