Mercury in Capricorn

9 February 1943, 11:45, Newark, NJ, USA

A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Joe 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 9th house

You are an enthusiastic person, always learning and questioning, you are interested in travels (over the world) and have true cosmopolitan views. You are always doing something, always studying, you are always interested in something new, you have an eternally young spirit and fresh ideas. You are also interested in philosophy, psychology, religion and similar areas. You probably have strong connections to foreign countries.

Mercury as culminating planet

Because Mercury is your culminating planet, you are usually very dynamic and incredibly youthful. You are constantly on the road and are always involved in some business; you are successful in marketing, writing, publishing and similar areas. In your work, you help yourself with many connections; you are always on the road and are very sociable, so you know many people who are also willing to help and follow you, because you have good rhetorical skills and can be very convincing. You are very clever and resourceful, you need a dynamic profession, otherwise you start getting bored.

Mercury trine Uranus

You are fast, clever, original and inventive, often intelligent above average. You are skillful, active, flexible and are constantly doing something. You are always creating something, constantly improving and educating, always discovering new paths and ways, always looking into the future. You are altruistic, you try to improve the world and can also receive positive feedback, because of your good ideas which you often successfully present to others and others are willing to follow or at least help you on your path and with your efforts, although – because you are often simply “a bit ahead of time” – you are not always understood right away.

Mercury trine Neptune

You are usually pleasant, agreeable, emotional and compassionate. You are creative, clever, you have good memory, also a natural feeling of organizing and processing facts, information and vibrations from the environment. You have vivid imagination and exceptional intuition, which you often manage to use and take advantage of very well. You are often an artistic soul who is able to express very well creatively (often you have talent for music and painting). Because of these characteristics, others find you interesting and attractive. You often have a good nose for business and usually rely most on your feeling, despite the circumstances.

Mercury trine Ascendant

You are friendly, open and pleasant, agreeable, sociable and talkative and are mostly popular because of your positive energy, easiness, openness and sociable nature. You have countless friends and acquaintances with whom you have good relationships and with whom you nurture contacts, often they can in some way also be beneficial for you. You think quickly, are extremely literate, you express without difficulty, you usually have good rhetorical abilities and good vocabulary. You are fast and restless, flexible and dynamic, you are always in action and in movement, you love travels (although shorter ones).

Mercury conjunction MC

You are sociable and have a good nose for sociable happenings – for 'being at the right place at the right time' (especially if other positions and aspects also contribute to this). You know an enormous number of people and have many friends and acquaintances and many are also useful for you in business sense. You are fast, active and flexible, you do well in basically any area and usually have good sense of business.

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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