Mercury

From going to the store to visiting close relatives, to private handwritten notes, to professional emails, information has many ways it can travel. Knowledge activates our intellectual center and sparks communication, leading to understanding and reasoning of the world around us. Even the human body has its own method of communication: the nervous system shoots signals all throughout the body constantly, updating the brain on the body’s current status. Funny how the nervous system performs the same function as Mercury, the messenger of the gods.

This planet rules over all things mental, our perception, gossip, short travels, news, the arms, shoulders and lungs, our siblings and close relatives, our neighborhood, and just about everything that involves information. Mercury even rules business, trading, bartering and the money earning potential. It is the ruler of Gemini and Virgo, and naturally rules the third and sixth houses.