Mercury in Capricorn

20 January 1946, 03:00, Missoula, MT, USA

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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 2nd house

You direct a lot of your energy into business and money. You often make different deals and have a keen sense of business and can be quite successful in this area. You value wealth and it means a lot to you. You probably work in economics, commerce or in publishing, writing. You often have several different income sources.

Mercury opposition Mars

You are often active and enterprising, fast, also jerky, restless and nervous, an opposition person so to speak. You are direct and always say what you think. You can behave abruptly, also cynically, you have a big mouth and are argumentative, you often get mad and complain. You love action and constant happening, but you don't always have sense of timing, you often react too quickly and can attract unpleasant circumstances and situations, because of your irritable and restless energy. You need to nurture tolerance and patience.

Mercury opposition Saturn

You are often torn between the new and the old; between progress and globalization on one hand and tradition, history and things being settled and tested on the other. In youth, you often associate with elders or more experienced people than you and learn a lot from them, although you constantly contradict them (because you don't always have the best opinion of authorities and also not relationships with them), through life and experiences you also put yourself in opposite role and have numerous contacts with young people or you become more perceptible to all possible approaches.

Mercury inconjunct Uranus

You are usually a clever person and have a very active mind, but sometimes you find it difficult to find the appropriate ways to exploit this potential. Perhaps you are completely enthusiastic about something and invest all your energy into it or your interest is slapdash and dispersed to many areas. You often “search for yourself” and don't find true interest and work “a little bit here, a little bit there”. You sometimes feel misunderstood and because of it, different from other people and although you are sociable, you don't fit in at once and in every company.

Mercury sextile Ascendant

You have a pleasant nature, are agreeable and talkative and you usually know a lot of ‘the right people’. People like you a lot because of your open and sociable character. You have no problems expressing yourself and you usually have good rhetorical skills. You are always in motion, one way or the other.

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