Description
Mercury forms the two dimensions of communication. On the one hand, this is the sense of being physical-bodily on one side (Virgo) and of the thinking dimension on the other (Gemini). We shall consider the ways the two dimensions, and their archetypal trajectories of Mercury, may be practised and enacted. Whatever we think is one level (Gemini), yet what we actually succeed in manifesting by doing of the bodily cogito (Virgo), is quite another. Once our thinking has been successfully verbalised and practised in reality (Gemini and Virgo), our individuation process can reach its full potential. Along with Venus, Mercury forms one arcane component of what is symbolised by the birth of Hermes-Aphrodite – the hermaphroditic essence as the lapis philosophorum, or the individuated man.
Matjaž L. Regovec, PhD, PhD is a doctor of psychological and philosophical sciences, an independent IPAL Method psychoanalyst. He founded the IPAL Institute in 1993. in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He lectures and holds workshops around the world. He has written over 20 books in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy and the IPAL Method.
The IPAL Method uses a set of different techniques – active imagination, symbolic cosmology, psychoanalytic techniques, and dream analysis – with the goal to improve the relationship of an individual as a functional whole with their own being.
