Astrology for The New Age
ercury retrograde again? Haven’t we had enough of it? Doesn’t the world’s communication seem sufficiently fouled up already without having some deity insist on putting in his two cents worth? Who is this Mercury, anyway? According to one version of the Mercury myth, he/she is the child of Jupiter and Maia. Many authors consider Mercury as male, though others have considered him hermaphroditic, something we might want to investigate a bit more. First, Mercury seems pretty much the same deity as the Greek Hermes, the identity resulting from the mythological syncretism that occurred in the 4th century B.C.). Those sources that consider Hermes a male see him as the father of Hermaphroditus, a god who combined the genders of both Hermes and Aphrodite, his parents. Many astrologers, however, consider Mercury’s concerns (not Mercury himself) as lacking gender orientation. What concerns do we have in mind, noting as we ask our question that mind itself seems to have no gender with its two hemispheres, one of which deals with matters we associate with the feminine, and one
