Martin Sheen’s birth chart
Mercury in Cancer
3 August 1940, 20:03, Dayton, KY, USA
A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Martin 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 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 sextile Uranus
You are clever, original, innovative and inventive, you think quickly. You have a sociable and communicative nature, you make acquaintances without difficulty and they are usually numerous. You have a curious spirit and are interested in everything. You are restless and responsive and usually have good coordination.
Mercury sextile Neptune
You have good memory and good visualization, vivid imagination and strong intuition. You often have a talent for art (painting, photography, film, music) and like moving in these circles frequently. You are agreeable, interesting, picturesque and usually popular.
Mercury opposition Ascendant
You are dynamic, restless, always active and in motion, mentally and physically. You are prone to being nervous and can be moody, changeable, distant and slapdash, also too fast and too quick, jerky and inarticulate. You like being surrounded by people and you move in places, where there is happening, but you aren't always the most sociable and approachable person; you often avoid more in-depth contacts. Sometimes you have difficulty expressing yourself, because you can't articulate your scattered thoughts and often also have some speech impediment (e.g. stuttering).
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.
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