hi, Dr. H.

What this means practically is that if a person has a decent Mercury, but Mercury's ruler is a malefic or afflicted in some matter, that person's thinking process/manners will become corrupted over time because of the ruler

What exactly would be the effects in the thinking process ? Effect in the phisical mind, in the spiritual ?

For example, phisical mind: altzheimer ? loss of inteligence ?

or is corruption in a spiritual sense, for example, fanaticism, loss of self-criticism, lack of character, etc ?

yuzuru,

The authors I have seen talk about corruption of the soul in a spiritual sense, not mental illnesses which would be read as an afflicted Mercury placed in or ruling the 6th of illness or 8th of death (probably some other places too).

If you have the Dykes translation of Bonatti, look at Treatise 9 Nativities, pp. 1178 - 1180 where the discussion is on delineating the spiritual qualities of the soul. Schoener does the same thing. There is also Antonius de Montulmo, On the Judgment of Nativities, part 2, chapter 9, Project Hindsight which goes through the same material with a slightly different perspective.

Thanks for the answer.
I have always been interested in psycopath?s charts, but never found an common denominator for them, which doesn?t appear also in normal people?s charts, so I have a lot of curiosity in the significators of mind, morality and spirituality in the chart.