Mercury in Virgo

17 August 1943, 03:00, New York City, NY, 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 Virgo

Mercury is home in Virgo that is why you are very talented for all Mercury matters – commerce, speech, writing, communication,... You have a very rational, critical and reserved nature, your observations and judgments are accurate, precise and analytical. You probably have a talent for writing and also for managing and bureaucratic professions and all areas that demand paying attention to details or trivialities. You are interested in medicine, health, hygiene and similar areas.

Mercury in 3rd house

Mercury feels very good in the third house and can express its influence here very well. You are intelligent, skillful, eager to learn and you learn easily, you are very perceptive for novelties and have many different hobbies. You like making new acquaintances and friends and as a rule get along with everybody and feel well in all sorts of environments.

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 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 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 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.

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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