“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.” ― Oscar Wilde Two children giving a pinkie swear stating to be best friends forever is a beautiful act which many might consider naïve, at most cute. If we pause at this moment a surge of the eternal reveals itself in the children’s innocence tying the little fingers together they are tying Mercury to Mercury and an oath is made of friendship. No other planet could be more proper for such oath. Mercury which is bad with bad and good with good, a communicator, thief and deceiver, the amalgam wherein Eros with all his love and contempt flows like the pulse of a dagger. ‘Friend’ and ‘fiend’ share etymological roots as much as ‘host’ and ‘hostile’. Friendships, like marriages, concords and pacts of whatever orientation often see this turn from friend to foe due to Mercury playing out misunderstandings, disagreements, betrayals, disappointments and d