Mercury, our planet of the mind and mouth, is leaving the hyper-expressive, never subtle, ... Hermes— Mercury to the Romans — grew from an infant to a man in the span of six days.

Mercury, our planet of the mind and mouth, is leaving the hyper-expressive, never subtle, ... Hermes— Mercury to the Romans — grew from an infant to a man in the span of six days.

Summer is here, and Mercury goes retrograde from July 17 until August 11 — the retrograde begins after the full moon lunar ...

In myth, Mercury, for the Romans or Hermes for the Greeks, was the messenger of the gods whose communicative route spanned from the peaks of Mount Olympus to the depths of the underworld.

“Mercury” is the Roman version of Hermes. The planet took the messenger god’s name likely for the way it heralded the Sun. But Hermes was also a mischief maker, a trickster, ...

Above, Hermes or Mercury holding the caduceus in his right hand and trumpeting the fame of the Thames with a Roman tuba (or similar) held in his left hand. Credit: Wellcome Collection 12117i.

Hermes/Mercury was acquired for $10,000 by the Milwaukee Art Center Garden Club for the then-new Villa Terrace, which opened in 1967 in the Smith house that had been donated the previous year.

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, with its average distance about 36 million miles (58 million km). ... To the ancient Greeks, Mercury is identified with the god Hermes.