There’s three types of Taurus Suns: Tauruses who have Mercury in Aries, Tauruses who have Mercury in Gemini, and Tauruses who have Mercury in Taurus. Furthermore, Tauruses with Taurus Mercury have Mercuries that are either in the morning phase, the evening phase, or combust.
Sometimes, you hear people talking about how different April Tauruses are from May Tauruses. Not all April Tauruses have Aries Mercury and not all May Tauruses have Gemini Mercury! However, because Mercury is never more than 28º from the Sun, it is more likely for an April Taurus to be an Aries Mercury and for a May Taurus to be a Gemini Mercury.
Taurus with Aries Mercury: Guerilla
Taurus with Aries Mercury doesn’t talk much. They don’t need to. They make themselves clear enough.
There is a feeling that Taurus with Aries Mercury knows exactly what it is that they are doing. They have clear ideas that they don’t need much to get going on. They are happy working independently and they move fast. They are rageful against injustice and they don’t see any sense in sitting around and talking about it. They want to see action now and they are the first ones to get up and do what needs to be done.
The problems that Taurus with Aries Mercury see are huge. But their methods and schemes are small, inexpensive, and guerilla. They’re not the sort to wait until someone tells them what to do or how to fix a problem. They have a plan, they’re ready to commit, and they rarely even think to ask anyone else to join their cause.
Taurus with Taurus Mercury: Stylistic
There’s three subsets of Tauruses with Taurus Mercury: there’s Tauruses who have Mercury as morning star, Tauruses who have Mercury as evening star, and Tauruses who have Mercury combust.
Taurus with Taurus Mercury is an artist. They care about form repeated. They repeat form until it gives way and makes room for something else. They are interested in what is plain and clear but they understand that objects, because they are silent, keep their secrets until they are ready to spill.
There is something about Taurus with Taurus Mercury, especially those with Mercury combust, who feel that they have inherited a sense of aesthetics or practices from the family. Taurus with combust Mercury replicates family practices whether those practices are scholarly, about beauty, or medicinal.
All Tauruses with Taurus Mercuries have a life philosophy that is really a philosophy around beauty. Beauty is in the ways in which they arrange their desks, the ways that they chart their friendships, and the ways that they imagine their characters.
Taurus with Gemini Mercury: Suspicious
A Taurus with Gemini Mercury cares about Taurus things—happiness, purpose, and what makes a life or a person good—but they care about these things by deconstructing them. If they are a good kid, then they doubt goodness and childhood. If they are beautiful, then they doubt beauty. If they are making good money, then they doubt what that means.
Taurus with Gemini Mercury is good at doubt. They worry whether they accidentally left the lights on and whether the gas company is overcharging them. This is why they keep track of everything. Statistics and maps mean a lot to a Taurus with Gemini Mercury because rarely do they find such a satisfying image of what is real than in a chart or diagram.
Taurus with Gemini Mercury is the most obsessive type of Taurus and Tauruses are very obsessive people. Taurus is a sign that commits their lives to passion. Taurus with Gemini doesn’t just believe things. They are the reason why Taurus is often pegged as a suspicious sign. They suspect anything they are told until they are able to prove it to themselves, on their own terms, and for their own sakes.
