Mercury and Bird Remedy
Parrots are well known for their bright feathers and playful nature, but they are most famous for their remarkable ability to mimic sounds. This talent has allowed them to imitate the sounds of animals like dogs and cats, and even recreate everyday household noises, such as your morning alarm, and most famously, replicate human phrases. Parrots are one of the few creatures on the planet that can not only imitate any sound, but also speak human phrases. Even more impressive, they can remember and reproduce these sounds weeks later, demonstrating their exceptionally strong memory. Most people tend to say that parrots are very comparable in intelligence to a 5-year-old child.
Mercury is the karaka (significator) of little kids, speech, communication, memory, and mimicry. People with a strong Mercury have a natural ability to imitate voices, movements, and sounds. They can observe someone performing an action, quickly absorb the information, and accurately replicate it. A well-placed Mercury in Taurus can hear a piece of music once, recognize the key and tempo, and then reproduce the same chords. A strong Mercury in Aries can watch someone’s shooting form in basketball and master it within minutes. Actors have a very powerfully placed Mercury, either in Taurus, Gemini, or in the 2nd, 3rd, or 5th house. These placements support strong memory and imitation skills, allowing them to memorize scripts easily and convincingly portray characters from plays or comic books. People who have an afflicted Mercury, such as Mercury Ketu, or Mercury in Scorpio, will tend to forget things, and will have difficulty recalling speeches or scripts for presentations. A very afflicted Mercury also tends to have trouble mimicking sounds that they’ve just heard. This is also why they tend to have trouble with speech growing up, since they have difficulties mimicking the words of their parents. In very severe cases, the child will be mute or may be delayed in speech.
These traits of mimicry and communication of parrots are often linked with the planet Mercury, hence Mercury is the significator of parrots/birds. People who have an afflicted Mercury, 3rd house, 6th house, or Gemini or Virgo, should do donations to parrots or birds. If Mars or Saturn afflict Mercury, they can donate to bird shelters, or if this is not possible, then they can buy/build a bird house, which gives shelter to wild birds. If Saturn is with Mercury or is in Virgo, these people should feed birds. If it’s Virgo that is afflicted, then they should volunteer at a bird shelter to help them.
