Low DigBala Mercury for impressionism

I was listening to the PAC video on DigBala and once again came to reflect upon my low DigBala Mercury.

Something fun come to mind.

So Mercury in the 7th buys shoes not for himself, but for the other. He tends to adapt to the agenda of the Other.

Mercury is the observer. Logic tells us that Mercury in the 7th observes for the Other. I have a story about that. When young I worked as a writer/journalist for several years. I´m not a very good storyteller and can not keep a long story together, yet alone create a complicated structure, but I discovered a special skill: being a fly on the wall, observing, regestering in a very sensitive way everything going around; the words, the action, the weather, the light, the sound, the feeling - and then being able to recall it and recreate the ambient and the situation through my writing. Basically: I became an impressionist. A few years ago I occasionally made a small comeback and wrote one single article for a magazine, an impression from a religious fiesta in Mexico, and a few months later I was told I had the prize for "best reportage of the year" or something like that, from the travel business in my homecountry. I mention it just to ensure you that I´m not just making it up; despite my low DigBala - and low Chesta Bala too - Mercury, I can both be really observant, and communicate my observations too, at a high level.

But the thing is: I´m observant only while in duty, serving the Other or the Others. I´m hopeless doing it for myself.

Without knowing anything about astrology I was well aware that I had to have an audience for this to work. I could not motivate myself to write anything just for the sake of writing, or for myself. Which was one of the reason that I quit; my writing came to depend too much on my success, which became unbearable.

It would be interesting to go through the horoscopes of famous impressionists, maybe even spies, and writers who use this technique, to see whether it´s a pattern or not. A brief check among creative people having Mercury in the 7th: Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Omar Sharif, Kathrine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Edgar Degas, George Braques, Alfred Hitchcock, both Freud and Jung, Bob Dylan, Barack Obama. Both Hitler and Ellen Degeneres has it, and not that the latter should be compared to the first, but both seems to speak on other people´s behalf more on their own authentical behalf, or am I wrong? Maybe Obama is in that cathegory too, and of course many many actors are that too. Maybe it´s a good thing for an actor to have a low DigBala Mercury, in this sense. Does anyone see a pattern here?

If we extend the search to also include Mercury in the 6th and 8th, painters like Manet, Juan Gris and Matisse join the list. Not more than randomly perhaps. The list of composers is more impressive: Beethoven, Elton John, MJ, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, Peter Gabriel, Prince and Mozart. The list of Mercury in the 7th composers has no big names on it.

Staffan