SOUNDS OF MERCURY

astrolopology:

♈️ ARIES // speaks as dragons do; incendiary, with embers burning in the chest, through gasoline lips with a match held between the teeth – the first word igniting it and every breath following feeds the fire. they spew words like sparks, and let ashes fall to the wind.

♉️ TAURUS // speaks in forests; in stubborn roots and steady boles and unyielding branches. voices leak out from flowered lips, all calm and silken and slow – words like unnoticed beads of amber sap, precious sounds of sweet resin. saying little, save for unspoken truths.

♊️ GEMINI // speak through honeycomb mouths; in the smooth flow of golden nectar. words are pollen-coated bees, swarming quick and easy from poetic throats. articulately directionless, erratically elegant – they zip over every spring bloom, and drift idly on zephyr wings.

♋️ CANCER // speak as gentle ocean swells; and violent crashing waves. voices soft as swirling sea foam, as moonglow on midnight tides – yet savage as siren screams, pulling threaded pearls from drowning throats. they litter beaches with words like broken shells and mermaid tears.

♌️ LEO // speaks in wild roars; in the hazy glow of august sun. they whip solar flares from their tongues, illuminating dark corners, burning out every voice around them. a summer mouth with lion teeth, sharp and loud and tinted every color of the rainbow. a kaleidoscope smile.

♍️ VIRGO // speaks as a library does; in quiet whispers, but every voice all at once. a voice precise and prudent, thumbing through crisp, dry pages of old books. sometimes they fold their careful words into intricate origami, pressing plain parchment into perfect paper cranes.

♎️ LIBRA // speaks in rose petals; poised and lovely and lighter than air. words hang delicate from the tips of hummingbird beaks. their voices drip sweet perfume and pomegranate juice. too sanguine, too insincere – speech that stains the mouth in shades of plum.

♏️ SCORPIO // speaks in susurrus; in secrets cloaked in sage scented smoke. a serpent tongue twisting serpent tales, whispering words of the soul – words of sin and of skin. a spoken word sorcery. they spit magic like venom.

♐️ SAGITTARIUS // speaks the same language as clouds; expansive and lofty and transient, with sunlight spilling through each smile. tangibly intangible; scattered just between the earth and the stars, but never quite close enough to either.

♑️ CAPRICORN // speaks in cautiously constructed symphonies. soulful strings and boisterous brass, ivory lungs and a silver-lined throat. a euphonious voice from a finely tuned instrument. words arranged into methodical measures, always an organized opus.

♒️ AQUARIUS // speaks in flickers of neon; luminous and dissonant. an electric tongue strikes with words long forgotten, fresh, and some never before spoken. voices that vibrate on foreign wavelengths, their speech scintillating like a static that could be mistaken for starlight.

♓️ PISCES // speaks with the moon in their mouth; full and bright and much too far away. lavender breath saturated in soft lullabies. diaphanous voices drowned out by dreams, all drunken with sleep and cream and reverie. words float from gossamer lips like the footfall of ghosts.