Mercury in Capricorn

16 January 1979, 18:55, Brooklyn, NY, USA

A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Aaliyah as “you”.

Besides the Sun and the Moon there are four planets that are very important for personal horoscope analysis and define individual parts of your personality: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.

Mercury is the planet, nearest to the Sun and it travels the fastest. That is why it is a very important personal planet, which influences communication, education, relationships, skillfulness and resourcefulness. Mercury also symbolizes transport and travels, especially short ones.

The position of Mercury in personal horoscope tells us how you think, how you communicate with the outer world and generally describes all the things that occupy your mind.

Mercury in Capricorn

You are a serious, cautious and responsible person who rarely strives for being in the forefront. You have good organizational, strategic and analytical abilities and do everything with care, step by step and with persistence – you fulfill your goals. You are very ambitious, you respect authority (you will also once become an authority) and knowledge. However, you can experience some difficulties with education at a certain point in your life, because you accept, comprehend and adopt other systems of learning and acting with difficulty – you basically have a quite nonconformist character and work best and easiest by following your own carefully elaborated systems.

Mercury in 5th house

You are a very creative person, of dramatic character and vivid imagination, you also have good organizational or pedagogical skills. You do very well in artistic professions, in film, on stage and in show business; amidst directors and actors. Because of your energetic approach, convincing way of expression and popularity, you have good pedagogical skills.

Mercury trine Saturn

You are usually active, enterprising and ambitious. You are decisive and know what you want, you also most often know how to find ways and paths to fulfill your goals as well. You understand hierarchy and respect authority. Reputation is important to you, you appreciate settled matters, tradition and history, are perceptive of novelties and new ways and paths. You always try to realize your ideas and plans and you often succeed in doing so, because besides persistency, you also have a good sense of time and course of things, of “right actions at the right time”.

Mercury trine MC

You are pleasant, agreeable and talkative, you usually don't have problems expressing yourself, you have good rhetorical skills and are good in explaining your ideas, so you get good feedback and others are prepared to listen to you. You are dynamic and sociable, also popular and have good sense of relationships with “the right people” and also a good nose for business. You are curious and eager to learn, also enterprising and ambitious and know well that you have to use your brain to succeed and also sometimes work hard, but that good contacts can also be useful.

Your own chart, read the same way

Every planet, every house and every aspect of your birth chart, chapter by chapter. Marsa wrote every word. Your chart decides which of them you get.

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