Mercury in Cancer

27 July 1948, 03:45, St. Louis, MO, USA

A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Betty 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 Cancer

You are a very sensitive and daydreaming person with vivid imagination and an unusual sense of humor. You have a very good memory. Other people influence you easily, because you are susceptible to external influences that you absorb like a sponge. Your thinking, your conclusions and decisions usually have a sentimental tone. You are probably interested in history, ethnology, art, poetry and similar areas. A lot of your energy is focused on home, family and your loved ones. You are very successful in artistic professions and professions with a social note.

Mercury in 1st house

You are successful in commerce, marketing, writing, publishing, etc. You are resourceful, skillful and clever, you are always on the lookout for new possibilities and also use these possibilities very well. You are interested in science, medicine, literature, architecture, etc. You are a sociable, easy-going and restless person.

Mercury inconjunct Jupiter

You are very curious and eager to learn, you appreciate knowledge and like being well informed about everything, yet you often spend too much energy for trivialities and ballast. You can be prone to hoarding and consumerism, also to snobbism. You like exaggerating and dramatizing. Your plans, goals and visions are not consistent with your procedures, ways and methods.

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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