Mercury

Mercury is represented as a chart body for position, motion, aspect, and timing calculations.

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Source texts4

Documented rules4

Interpretive notes1

Source basis

A planetary chart body returned by the ephemeris layer and used throughout chart calculation.

Mercury is represented as a chart body for position, motion, aspect, and timing calculations.

This page supports object identity and chart-placement copy for Mercury, including links from calculation and doctrine pages that use the body as an input.

This object row does not publish Mercury-specific interpretation, dignity judgment, condition scoring, or predictive doctrine. Use narrower doctrine and rule pages for those claims.

Source texts

Vettius Valens. Anthology, trans. Mark T. Riley (2010), 9388-9404.
CALCEPH C manual. Official docs: calceph_c.pdf.
Julius Firmicus Maternus. Matheseos Libri VIII, trans. Jean Rhys Bram (1975), 3421-3455.
NAIF SPK Required Reading / SPK tutorial materials. Official NAIF materials start at NAIF generic kernels and SPK tutorials like 15_spk.pdf.

Published interpretations

These interpretations are sourced from reviewed reference texts.

Firmicus

chronocrator timing

Firmicus associates Mercury as time lord with business, writing, profit, activity, and volatility, keeping the outcome dependent on Mercury's wider chart condition.

Source: FIRMICUS_MATHESIS_BRAM, 12709-13047

Interpretive rules

Rules are drawn from cited reference texts. Topics without reviewed source-backed notes stay empty.

Firmicus · timing

Firmicus Mercury ruler of time

When Mercury is the active ruler of time, the period foregrounds activity, business, writing, profit, and mercurial volatility.

Citations

Julius Firmicus Maternus. Matheseos Libri VIII, trans. Jean Rhys Bram (1975), 3421-3455.

Firmicus · timing

Firmicus Mercury to Mars Jupiter mitigates

When Mercury gives time to Mars but Jupiter intervenes favorably, Firmicus says the accusations and litigation are mitigated.

Citations

Julius Firmicus Maternus. Matheseos Libri VIII, trans. Jean Rhys Bram (1975), 3421-3455.

Firmicus · timing

Firmicus Moon to Mercury

When the Moon gives time to Mercury, Firmicus treats the handoff as chills, weakness, and bodily illness.

Citations

Julius Firmicus Maternus. Matheseos Libri VIII, trans. Jean Rhys Bram (1975), 3421-3455.

Valens · status

Valens Mercury in Daimon rising with benefic testimony

If Mercury is in Daimon, at morning rising, and receives benefic witness from the Moon's place under the current proxy, the chart receives a narrow letters-and-honors note.

Citations

Vettius Valens. Anthology, trans. Mark T. Riley (2010), 9388-9404.