Mercury

In a birth chart, Mercury represents how you think, speak and learn. It describes your communication style, the way you process information, and the everyday exchanges of life, from text messages to short trips.

Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, and in our sky it never strays more than about twenty-eight degrees from it: so it always sits in your Sun sign or a neighboring one. In a chart, it describes your practical intelligence. Do you think fast or slow, in pictures or in lists? Would you rather write a long message or pick up the phone? Do you learn by reading, listening, taking things apart? Mercury answers those questions. It also governs short trips, siblings, neighbors, trade and all the small transactions of daily life. Its sign sets the tone of your speech, its house the area where your mind works hardest. Its much-discussed retrograde phases mostly describe good moments for rereading and double-checking, not disasters.

Mercury through the twelve signs

Mercury in AriesMercury in TaurusMercury in GeminiMercury in CancerMercury in LeoMercury in VirgoMercury in LibraMercury in ScorpioMercury in SagittariusMercury in CapricornMercury in AquariusMercury in Pisces