("What does silver represent?" Miller said. "Mercury. The god of communication").
Mercury is the god of communication, the god of thieves, the god of artists, the god of the conduit between living souls and dead souls.
In this novel, which is in part a beach-read thriller and in part a contemplation of questions about God and communication, Anna, a young mother fleeing her estranged, sociopathic husband, grapples with a disembodied voice that only she seems to hear.
While Virgos have a strong need for privacy (their corresponding tarot card is The Hermit), they're also ruled by Mercury, the god of communication, which means they're always curious and knowledge-seeking, or tucked away in their caves looking through their emails, Facebook messages, or Twitter mentions.
According to Karl Rahner, revelation consists primarily and essentially in God's gracious communication of his own divine life to human beings as a personal spirit.
That astrological term describes how the smallest planet, named for the messenger god allied to communication, seems to be moving backward in the sky, a phenomenon that occurs several times a year in three-week periods.
Finally, an input that brings together the emotional and cognitive part of the God-image is prayer, or active communication with God, as explained in "Input from prayer" section.
In an interview with Daily News and Analysis, she said that "My communication with God is conversational, I'm God's favourite child; I believe that God has always been kind to me".
Beliefs in spirit-beings and in spirit-world communication (gods and prayer) have been abandoned by almost all educated modern people.
What frequently gets lost in the exchange of competing drafts is honest-to-God, real life communication -- not between the lawyers, but between the people who really matter.
