Walter Matthau’s birth chart
Mercury in Libra
1 October 1920, 19:15, 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 Libra
You feel best in a calm environment. You are attracted to beauty, aesthetics, also ethics, morals and law. You always strive for balance, you judge things fairly and always take both sides into consideration. You usually act mildly and diplomatically (if, for example, Scorpio is not too strong; or if the Sun or Venus are in this sign). In discussions and debates you act rationally and usually avoid tumultuous, wild and even aggressive environments. The negative side of this position is your indecisiveness, especially in your actions and with accepting responsibility.
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 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).
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