Mercury: God and Planet (and Hermes, too!)

Mercury has officially gone retrograde! In this video, I chat about the mythology of the god Mercury and his Greek counterpart Hermes, and try my hand at some astrology. I’m still very much a beginning astrologer, so please bear with me. Thanks for watching!

Fortress of Lugh’s video on Hermes:
Hermes - The Immortal Guide (History ...

Chris Brennan and the Astrology Podcast:
https://www.chrisbrennanastrologer.com

Mercury in Astrology: Meaning Explained

Mercury Retrograde: What it Means in ...

Claudius Ptolemy translation:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...

Vettius Valens translation:
https://www.csus.edu/indiv/r/rileymt/...

Images:
- Pleiades: stock image
- Statue of Pan: Carole Raddato (via WikiMedia Commons)
- Pan playing the pipes (by Walter Crane): public domain (via WikiMedia Commons)
- Hermes fastening his sandal: Ricardo André Frantz (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Hermes (Disney character): https://disneyshercules.fandom.com/wi...
- Hermes stealing Apollo’s cattle (vase painting): https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T23.1.html
- Mercury on St. Lucia stamp: public domain (via WikMedia Commons)
- Cicero Denounces Catiline (Roman Senate painting by Cesare Maccari): public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
- The Hunting Party with Dido and Aeneas, Jean Raoux: Finoskov (via WikiMedia Commons)
- Ovid: public domain (via WikiMedia Commons)
- Statue of a Lar: public domain (via WikiMedia Commons)
- Horace, by Anton von Werner: public domain (via WikiMedia Commons)
- Hellenistic Astrology, by Chris Brennan: https://www.chrisbrennanastrologer.co...
- Claudius Ptolemy: public domain (via WikiMedia Commons)
- Lizzie McGuire on the phone: https://www.popsugar.com/entertainmen...
- Mercury’s winged sandals: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/46...

Music: "Descent from the Olympos Pentatonic." (original)

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