Mercury in Taurus is a Mercury that communicates through sign posts, through hand gestures, and through roads. It’s a Mercury that communicates through soil, fungal lines, and pollen. It’s a Mercury that speaks through its tendons, kneecaps, and fibers—anything but the wayward tongue. Mercury in Taurus tries to pack the entirety of what it means to look at a world through a perspective through one word, one name—one stroke.

This is also a Mercury of brevity but not for the same reasons as Mercury in Aries. Mercury in Taurus is not brief and moving. Mercury in Taurus is compact. Its words are complicated and almost constipated with usage. You won’t catch Mercury in Aries saying the same thing twice. Mercury in Taurus chooses the same word, after deliberating for an eon, and sees in red cloaked with yellow, imagines it in magenta smelling like amber, and knows that it also lives a life in cool shade sucking a popsicle on a hot day.

Mercury in Taurus genius sees the colors in the words. It knows that words are just puzzles, little pieces of wood, that exist to be turned over and over and then repainted.

Mercury in Taurus smells its words. It knows that the word for algae isn’t just five letters and a dictionary entry but a lifeworld that swims with spindly little arms around and around in the dirtiest of river.

Talk to a Mercury in Taurus and they’ll show you what it feels like to live in their shoes. That is, if you have the patience.

No, Mercury in Taurus is not eager to speak. This is not an eager to please Mercury. It’s a Mercury that shuts down when it finds itself under the pressure to make too much sense because sense, for Mercury in Taurus, is really just sensation and sensation comes slowly—so slowly.

The genius of Mercury in Taurus teaches you to wait. It expects you to wait. It refuses to move to anyone else’s benefit. It doesn’t serve a system. It’s not a cog in a machine. It doesn’t care what the dictionary says. It expects you to wait, on a little ledge in a great big forest full of smells and trees, and to wait for meaning.

Mercury in Taurus teaches us that meaning arrives to those of us who wait for it.

Oh, Mercury in Taurus loves the body. It understands that there are sensations and glimpses into things that the body knows that can never be a picture. What color would you say is the smell of ambergris? Of figs ripened and soft on the tongue? How could one ever describe the moment before you speak to someone you barely know—that tenuous and inconsequential shyness?

Mercury in Taurus knows that some things were never meant to be described, that none of it makes sense. But, still, Mercury Taurus works to capture. It is extremely interested in capture. It picks words, gimmicks, and sounds with the intent to capture a feeling that can’t be described.

Mercury in Taurus is the butterfly collector with a hundred wings pinned to a bulletin board. It’s the high school sweetheart with a thousand pictures of their favorite things on their notebooks and locker walls.

That’s how Mercury in Taurus uses words. It chooses words that it feels could capture. A word, for a Mercury in Taurus, is a tease, a hook—a catch. It never says exactly what it means. Saying exactly what you mean isn’t what words were made to do. It says just enough to catch interest, to reel you in, and to make you look much longer than you had initially bargained for.

Yes, Mercury in Taurus knows how to capture time—time, attention, interest, and hunger. This is a Mercury that, through its richness, produces a hunger for knowing that feels as solid as flesh.

Mercury in Taurus is the tattoo artist who knows the vocabulary of the body, of signs, and has the patience to make its symbols permanent and fixed upon a skin poised to tease. Mercury in Taurus draws on you and its genius endows you with a beauty that was already within you all along. It prints into you the knowledge that it’s been here with you, knowing you, all this time.

So, you never know a Mercury in Taurus completely. You must spend a lifetime with it to know it truly and, even then, a lifetime is not enough time to really know someone, is it? Mercury in Taurus knows that our lives are short in comparison to the trees and it knows that the trees do not need clarity of tone to be monumental.

But—Mercury in Taurus? What a voice. It’s about timbre and not lyric to Mercury in Taurus. Mercury in Taurus will make you melt just by saying your name.

The genius of Mercury in Taurus knows that words are catalogs, that their meanings and colors and scents have been earned through history and that this history passed means that no one can ever take away what is beautiful. The genius of Mercury in Taurus is that it knows your beauty before you are willing to see it and it is also willing to hang out and around waiting for you to come around. The genius of Mercury in Taurus knows that there are some things that are worth knowing but not saying.

Mercury in Taurus doesn’t tell stories or tall tales. It shows you your own world—the one you’re already living in and it asks you to slow down enough to where you can notice its growth.