John Hurt’s birth chart
Mercury in Capricorn
22 January 1940, 17:30, Chesterfield, United Kingdom
A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to John 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 6th house
You are a very methodical and organized person who is universally engaged, enterprising, hard-working and efficient. You are probably interested in literature and writing and are very talented in these areas. Perhaps you also work in profession, connected to health and medicine, you are also interested in science. You are usually creatively active in two (or even more) completely different areas.
Mercury in domicile
You are usually skilled in businesses of Mercury; communication, commerce, writing, speech, etc. You are fast, agile, resourceful and adaptable, also devious and cunning. As a rule, you have a gift of articulation and so have good rhetorical skills, you also pass on your knowledge in a quality and interesting way. You are intelligent and funny, you like novelties and constant happening and you love travelling. You are always somehow on the road, you are interested in everything and you learn something new out of every situation, which is beneficial for you in the future.
Mercury square Saturn
You are often distrustful and insecure, it is difficult for you to completely relax. That is why you sometimes withdraw into yourself and your inner world, where you engage in dark and depressive thoughts and feed your fears. You are prone to being critical and judgmental, sometimes you have old-fashioned views and are quite prejudice. You need to nurture being relaxed and positively oriented. It is very useful that you work or have contact with earth, nature. When you find contact with yourself, when you relax and start trusting more, you can achieve great success, since you are also very ambitious.
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 opposition Pluto
You are decisive, perspicacious and energetic, you have a strongly working mind and endless mental capacity, but you can be prone to being cynical, too critical and judgmental. You take good advantage of intelligence and perspicaciousness, but you can be cold and impersonal in doing so, also cruel and manipulative. You “protect” by “stinging” in advance. You often oppose to something or someone, you get upset often and know how things should be happening, but with you this often stays at a thinking and verbal level. You need to nurture tolerance and acceptance.
Mercury square MC
You are restless, constantly in action and always on the thinking prowl, you want to get the most out of everything. You are constantly learning, improving yourself and gaining experiences, then you also use what you have learned. In the desire for happening, novelties and progression, you are sometimes even too enthusiastic, because you are very enterprising and ambitious and make numerous acquaintances, also many businesses (often the two are connected), which doesn't always bring the desired effects. To others, you seem too quick, slapdash and therefore unreliable, you are also unreliable, which can make your relationships more difficult, especially in business. You need to nurture attention, persistency and consistency.
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