Budha/Mercury

Question 1

Me - Ke

Answer 1

Cautious about communication; don’t always disclose everything going on in your mind. They may instead express it through art or song or creating a beautiful cabinet. Ketu can be very inspirational.

Question 2

Me - Ke

Answer 2

“People don’t really understand me so what’s the point in communicating?”

• Access to transcendental information

Question 3

Me - Ke (antidote)

Answer 3

• Creating something or participating in healing with the hands (Budha rules the hands + communication). Healing with a sense of touch E.g. Get a massage. Give people lots of hugs.
• Spirituality; whatever that person does to express themselves or discover more about themselves.
• Also healing yourself and others through sound (since communication is afflicted so there is a debt to pay toward that).

Question 4

Me - Sa

Answer 4

• Saturn restricts so the person is a CAREFUL and DELIBERATE communicator.
• They are patient; they hold back their communication.
• They worry (Saturn is Vata so is about fear).
• “Is what I’m going to say going to offend someone?”
• They write in the online chat instead of interrupting the instructor.
• They can become great diplomates because they understand the weight that each word can carry since they worry about that! They are tactful with their communication.
• Frustration with communication: “Why didn’t I ask that question, I really wanted to know!?”
• Could have bad memory.
• Not wanting to offend; wanting to put things in a certain light; diplomatic speech.
• They understand the weight of words and the fact they can last for years to some people.
• They don’t want to offend

Question 5

Me - Ju

Answer 5

• Love of travel. Why? They want to explore everything mentally. “Ooo I read about Pyramids of Giza, I’d love to go see them.” Their minds travel.
• Linguistic ability
• Law
• Spirituality: the coming together of the knowledge and experience.

If there is an exalted Budha and no influence of Jupiter then the person filters everything through the intellect. They think they can think themselves out of every situation; the Buddhists call this ‘the human world fixation’. They won’t trust anything that doesn’t have a logical explanation. The logical mind is just a tool for us to transcend ourselves.

Question 6

Me - Ve

Answer 6

• A very smart spouse. Why? There is an attraction to smart people as partners; a desire for an intelligent spouse. “I want my partner to be smart, not just good-looking”.
• Creative sel-expression
• Charm
• Good sense of humour
• Luxurious speech; a person will find ways to insert beautiful words into their speech
• May have a tendency to over-analyse relationships, beauty, and all the things VE represents. (Antidote: catch yourself doing it and let it go. You don’t need to count all the things that are wrong with your parter. Just play and let it go).

Question 7

Me - Ne

Answer 7

• When neptune conjuncts mercury the person will talk about spiritual things; higher things. They will think about things that are ideal. The person becomes an idealist.
• Neptune Mercury combination is one of the combos for idealism.