Understanding your Mercury sign: What it means in astrology
Mercury is the messenger planet of communication, coordination, creative expression, and information processing.It is called to mind (and to blame) during its thrice-annual retrograde, when smoothness is traded for chaos, we feel compelled to text our exes, connecting flights get canceled, and toddlers accidentally livestream their naked parents.
Depending on your date and time of birth, Mercury was traveling through one of the 12 zodiac signs.Because Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, it will naturally fall in the same sign as the Sun or in the sign that proceeds or precedes it.
For example, if your Sun is in Scorpio, your Mercury will fall in Libra, Scorpio, or Sagittarius. The placement of Mercury within the birth chart indicates how we learn, what conjures our curiosity, the kind of information we exchange, and how we relate and respond to the world at large.Trash-talking or sonnet-spinning, Mercury reveals the style of transmission we favor, and because we lead with language, our Mercury placement informs the first impressions we make and receive. In myth, Mercury, for the Romans or Hermes for the Greeks, was the messenger of the gods whose communicative route spanned from the peaks of Mount Olympus to the depths of the underworld.
Similar in scope, the influence of Mercury can serve the lower modes of gossip, slander, and text abbreviation, or the better angels of poetry, karaoke, and universal human communion. To glean an even deeper understanding of how Mercurial energy manifests in your life, refer to your birth chart to see which of the Astrological Houses the planet falls in. Fast and ever forward are the modalities of Mercury in Aries.The energy here is direct and efficient, bordering on brisk and impatient.
Folks with this placement do not hesitate to engage in verbal sparring.While they are quick to quarrel, they are equally quick to forgive, and what they lack in pleasantries or subtlety, they more than make up for in enthusiasm an...