Mercury and Astrology

Mercury is the translator, including when you brought up banking there. I see it more as the trading system, not the banking itself,. Not necessarily the money, but the idea of the exchange. It has to be the translator of the sun because it can't move less than 27 degrees from the sun. If it does, it starts going retrograde and so Mercury's always very close to the sun. In fact, what often happens in a chart is you get a person who has Mercury in the sun and Mercury in the same place at the same time. They both have a step after being in the shade of the sun; they are just emerging into light. And the other thing with