Mercury in Cancer

21 June 1973, 04:50, Los Angeles, CA, USA

A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Juliette 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 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 conjunction Venus

You are usually a good-spirited person and have a pleasant nature, are sociable and talkative, you always find a way to express your creativity. You love children, animals, nature and art and often your work (or hobby) is connected to them. You are also skilled in household chores, especially those which are connected to handwork and systematization (e.g. organizing, tidying, putting things in order).

Mercury trine Mars

You are usually intelligent, fast, decisive and perspicacious. You have a lot of inner strength and energy and know how to maintain balance between thinking paths, plans and your abilities, possibilities. You are very flexible, dynamic, coordinate, adaptable and fluent. You are always planning something and often put the plans into action, because you are skillful and inventive and often have good rhetorical skills and are persuasive with passing on your ideas. You have a sense of “being at the right place at the right time”. You are active, you like to move and discover new paths. You are interested in sport and are often also involved in it, you usually have a good sense of rhythm.

Mercury square Uranus

You are a very restless person and practically have a constantly active mind; you are extremely intelligent and have endless mind potentials, which you try to take advantage of, but are not always successful, since you act too quickly and slapdash because of your multi-layerness. You are interested in everything, you want to get to all the dimensions of everything. You are very original and inventive, fast and agile, others often follow you and don't always understand you; sometimes you are perceived and seen as being freaky or even eccentric. You can usefully direct the abundance of your intellectual energy to education and science.

Mercury inconjunct MC

You are usually sociable and like moving in all sorts of circles, everywhere where something is happening. You can't be still and you mustn't miss anything. You like making acquaintances and businesses, but you don't always have the luckiest hand at choosing both; it happens that you invest a lot of energy, time and even money into something and it later proves to be a sort of “dead end” or it stands on weak foundations. You need to nurture better communication and cooperation with others, especially in business.

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