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1. This cycle is delimited by two conjunctions: Inferior Conjunction, in which Mercury is retrograde and is on a direct line between the earth and the sun; and Superior Conjunction, in which the sun is on a direct line between the earth and Mercury; and also by two elongations (varying from 18° to 28° in separation between Mercury and the sun): Greatest Western Elongation when Mercury rises in the east before the sun; and Greatest Eastern Elongation when Mercury sets in the west after the sun
2. When Mercury is located at either one of its elongation points (within five days of exact GWE or GEE) it is furthest from the sun, so the natives’ inner dialogue is developed to a high degree of refinement, embellishment, and decadence
3. Where Mercury conjunction natives tend to sleepwalk through life, focusing all their attention on those areas in which they have some degree of superiority or control and ignoring everything else, the elongation natives tend to overuse mind – they are utterly taken by their own cleverness and perspicacity, and refuse to act on the pure promptings of their hearts without first thoroughly rationalizing them
4. Where the Mercury conjunction natives are ashamed of sharing their real thoughts and feelings (indeed, they have a horror of sharing their thoughts and feelings, and thereby making themselves vulnerable), elongation natives tend to think out loud
5. Where conjunction natives rely on immediate, knee-jerk responses – or immediate dismissal of ideas to oblivion (once they’ve decided something, their minds are made up forever); elongation natives rely on continual self-analysis, sifting and refining their thinking, over and over and over and over
6. The conjunction natives operate on blind faith; the elongation natives on lack of faith, which in turn tends to sap their decisiveness
7. The question that the conjunction natives never ask themselves – which elongation natives never stop asking themselves – is: “Suppose I’m wrong?”
8. Elongation natives have a more realistic picture of their relationship with their parents – and a more objective view of them as people – than the conjunction types do
9. Elongation natives tend to be far more open sexually than the conjunctions – not because they are any “sexier” per se (which is a matter of personal planets posited in certain signs, such as Scorpio and Capricorn) – but rather because they are less emotionally and sexually repressed; more relaxed within themselves and at home with their impulses; less inhibited by parental and societal fiat (what the neighbors might think)
10. In a general kind of way, Mercury conjunction natives are toilet trained at an earlier age than are elongation natives (it might be possible to prove or disprove this point statistically)
11. This can be achieved by means of calculating their elongation
12. where c s is the string elasticity coefficient and δI is the calculated elongation of the i-th string
13. Since the relation Fa(b) = ƒ (F/2cosϕ) is not linear the values for Fa(b) in the initial moment of the strike when the angle ϕ is close to 90° are very high thus causing sudden elongation of the loaded strings and compression of the frame
14. To give a feel for Elongation ,it is an indication of how much you can STRECH
15. We can only think of eternality in relation to time, of eternality as an elongation of time; in trying to tell what eternality is we often hear, “After a billion years we will have no less time then when we first begin;” we cannot even think of eternality with out thinking of it in relation to time
16. As Wemmick and Miss Skiffins sat side by side, and as I sat in a shadowy corner, I observed a slow and gradual elongation of Mr
17. We find sometimes a small indurated tip to the tail of Coluber melanoleucus,[33] at least upon some full grown specimens, formed by the elongation and appression of the terminal scales; a larger one on that of the European viper, and of the Acanthophis cerastes, and Brownii
