Glossary · graha
Budha
Also written Mercury
Budha is Mercury — the planet of intellect and communication: speech, writing, reasoning, wit, trade and calculation. It is the quickest of the visible planets and the most adaptable, taking the colour of whatever it sits with.
It governs the nervous system, the hands, students and merchants, and the agile, analytical turn of mind. Strong, it reads as clarity, eloquence and cleverness; afflicted, as scattered thinking or trouble with speech and nerves.
Mercury rules the nakshatras Ashlesha, Jyeshtha and Revati, and never strays far from the sun.
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