MERCURY IN 12 HOUSES

Mercury is the planet of communication and it represents the fields related to commerce, trade, accounts, banking, and computers. Strong Mercury denotes success in these fields. People with Mercury in strong position in their chart have sharp thinking but inborn anxiety and indecisiveness also.

Mercury is dual natured planet and governs two zodiac signs namely Gemini and Virgo. Body parts that are ruled by Mercury are the arms, ear, lungs and nervous system.

Mercury believes in logic. Mercury represents the qualities of intelligence, wit and humor in a person. People with strong Mercury in their horoscopes possess the excellence of reasoning and analytic ability. Researchers also have strong Mercury in their natal chart.

Therefore well-placed, strong mercury is usually seen in horoscopes of writers, astrologers, mathematician, engineer, dealers, brokers, businessmen (a person with Mercury in strong position in their chart is undeniably charming and shrewd), and media persons.

Mercury also develops verbal communication and hand skills. Hence many lecturers, artists, sculptors and salesmen are also the result of well-placed mercury.

Mercury is considered a benefic planet but under some situations it may play a role of malefic planet. Mercury placed in 6th, 8th or 12th houses fail to deliver good results. The same is the result when Mercury is the lord of 6th, 8th or 12th houses in a horoscope.

The description below, can become completely positive, or opposite depending upon the sign, degree and the planetary conjunction in a particular house.

Mercury in 1st House

1. If you have Mercury in the 1st House, you are restless, adaptable, changeable, easily distracted, versatile, clever, inquisitive, eloquent, witty, and perhaps high-strung and they exhibit nervous behavior.

2. This position indicates an intelligent, talkative, cheerful, comical person who keeps a clean, well-dressed appearance. They have many friends, talent in business. Literary inclinations or good education. They like variety. They do things quickly, They are skilled with their hands. They have a harmless aura about them. They may have a liking for medicine, astrology, religion.

3. You have an inquiring, competitive and intellectual mental disposition, with above-average ability to express yourself orally and in writing. Many intellectual avenues will be explored through an innate drive for knowledge and new personal experiences that stimulate the growth of mind and personality.

4. Your mental qualities are ideally suited to academic and scientific work. The person with Mercury in their first house wants to analyze the world. Mercury here will disregard feelings and use a calculating approach to understanding other people and the world as they encounter it.

5. People with Mercury in their first house, especially near the ascendant, have a strong need to communicate and talk about themselves. When they aren't talking about themselves, they are talking about their interpretation of the world. It can be as though they are providing a constant news report of their thoughts.

6. You are very verbal and communicative, quick-witted and personable. You may tend to measure your worth by the number of friends you have. Be aware of a tendency to talk too much and dominate conversations.

7. You love to learn [and the way to learn is to listen]. You love new experiences and travel. You may feel there is some gypsy in your soul. You may be funny; you are nearly always good company.

8. Indeed, you are by nature curious, lively, and mobile and you generally adjust remarkably well to your surroundings. You’re an adaptable person, which can make you a good problem-solver.

9. You want to know something about a lot of things. Your speeches and writings reflect your own personal opinions. Your versatile personality prompts you to get interested in many things

10. In the first house Mercury makes a person extremely intelligent, business minded and a clever personality which is needed in the business world.

11. This person can also become a very good accountant, and computer programmer, especially if Mercury is sitting with Ketu (South node) of the moon.

12. These people think logically with very calculated moves in every aspect of their life. Even in marriage they look for a business opportunity in their spouse.

13. With your natal Mercury in the 1st house, you take an intellectual approach to situations, and come across as someone who thinks a lot, even too much. You love conversation but may be a talker rather than a listener.

14. You have a childlike curiosity, especially with new projects or ideas, and you tend to react in a more analytical manner instead of an emotional one (unless your Moon is also in the 1st house).

15. You may need to get out of your own head. You need some variety in your life or you get bored easily. You can become scattered and have a hard time focusing on one thing for very long.

16. You are quick- witted and sharp according to the nature of the sign rising and the aspects of the planets which you receive. You will delve in several subjects in depth particularly astrology, engineering, mathematics, magic etc. He will have well developed business acumen.

17. The fiery signs and the airy signs have the strongest influence in that respect. In Aries or Leo you are more impulsive than when rising in Sagittarius, but Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are best. When Mercury is rising in the watery signs Cancer or Pisces the intellect is dull, but rising in Scorpio where it is fired by the martial energy and armed with the venomous sting of the scorpion it has a somewhat similar influence to that of Mars in Scorpio though not quite so pronounced.

18. If there is influence of Saturn or of a Node of the Moon on Mercury in the first house, the native may suffer from nervous disorders. Such an influence can also cause skin disorders.

19.In a female's chart, Mercury in the first house may indicate that her husband may not be able to satisfy her sexually.

Mercury in 2nd House

1. If you have Mercury in the 2nd House you have your feet on the ground and a particularly well-developed practical good sense. You have a very practical mind and intelligence.

2. You have a good mind for business. You tend to think along lines that are practical and conservative, always coming up with sound and productive ideas. You would do well in an occupation where verbal skills are required. Sales, especially of real estate or art, would be an excellent occupation for you.

3. Gain through writing, speaking, communications, personnel or secretarial work. You place great value on intellect, learning and communication. You are very skilled with your hands, and may be talented in crafts and fine arts. You may have a good singing voice or be a gifted public speaker.

4. with your natal Mercury in the 2nd house, you tend to be more logical, not needing to dig and look around for the answer to problems. You can use what you already have to solve them. You take your time when making decisions, not seeing the point in rushing.

5. You also take your time when learning new things or taking in new information. You can focus on one project or idea at a time, and have a hard time dealing with more than one at once.You can be good with financial planning, and this is a good position to make money through technology, communications, writing, or as an accountant. 

6. You can be quite one-track minded at times, not very happy with multi-tasking, and often quite fixed in your opinions.

7. These people are quite talkative but pleasantly so. They may earn money by publishing, lecturing, etc. They spend for charitable reasons, they eat well and they possess gems, nice clothes and good friends. There is a childlike innocence about them. They may come from a large family or have many children themselves. They do well in clerical positions.Sensual stimuli are more relevant to you than abstract concepts. Fond of collecting books, magazines etc.

8. You may earn money with your wit, knowledge, and versatility and an ability to communicate ideas to others through writing and speaking. You may have financial skill, but your money may come and go, regardless.

9. In the second house again Mercury makes on a businessman, especially in the public speaking and writing business, but more so in public speaking, politics, and law.

10. Mercury also gives a very fun upbringing for the native, with lots of communication between the families. This position also gives love for the computer, and electronic engineering.

11.  If you have Mercury in the 2nd House and when the eighth house is also powerful, there is a possibility that the native may get wealth through death of a senior member of the family.

Mercury in 3rd House

1. With your natal Mercury in the 3rd house, you’re a mentally active person. You are clever, alert, adaptable, versatile and studious. This position creates talent in writing and the ability to handle facts and figures. They do good deeds for others but lack inner peace for themselves. They are fond or study, have friendship with big businessmen, are susceptible to nervous troubles. And have a large Number of relatives. They are determined and finish their work despite obstacles.

2. As the ruler of the third house, Mercury is at home here. It is nearly impossible for this placement to have a negative effect. Even with hard aspects to Saturn or Pluto, Mercury in its own house will do well.

3. This placement fuels and speeds the intellect. The only possibly bad effect here is to create a chart holder who cannot slow down their mind enough to focus.

4. Generally a third-house Mercury generates a quick and fluent thinker who is agile with words. Mercury in the third house also generates activity in the daily life of the chart holder. A busy mind leads to a busy body which bores easily and prefers an active, on the go life.

5. You love to study and question and are always inquiring and searching, using your mind for research.

 6. You enjoy communication in all its forms; spoken, written, via computers, etc. Your mind is active, always seeking new knowledge and experience. You like to travel. You relate well with young people, finding it very easy to communicate with them. You are probably an avid reader and a skilled writer.

7. Mercury is at home in this house and you’re at home when you’re using your mind. You engage in many mental activities and communications, love to engage with people and exchange information, and are always on the hunt for new knowledge to obtain.

8. You can be interested in many different things, though you may not throw yourself into them much, and your interest is more superficial.

9. You are also very easily distracted and you have a short attention span but are an apt pupil. You can also be good at teaching. You need to keep busy, and can work with siblings, neighbors, younger people, or within your community.

10. You are generally very interested in reading, teaching, speaking, exchanging ideas, keeping current with the daily news, and perhaps gossiping.

11. Quick to learn, you are also swift to share what you know with others. You can express your ideas fluently and you have the ability to bring your ideas to completion.

12. You can be very talkative when you have the chance. You can be a list maker, and often are quite involved in your community.

13. This is one of the best positions for mercury in terms of writing, being an author, media personality actor, director or an anchor. If in a strong position via sign, it gives lots of love and friendship between the siblings.

14. You are apt to be a jack-of-all-trades. There may be many short journeys. You may be prone to nervousness.

15. This is a good position for teachers, for those concerned with detailed work, or for work with computers. Writing or speaking ability is present.

16. You excel in activities where communication, reflection and mobility - in the literal and mental meaning of the term - are required: teaching, law, journalism, human resources, transportation, etc.

17. Communicating, thinking, and moving: all these activities match your natural tastes. Knowledge acquisition and sometimes, mastering the art of writing is among your favorite pastimes. 

Mercury in 4th House

1. With your natal Mercury in the 4th house, your thinking is quite subjective, and in some cases narrow or biased. You can have a hard time being open to new ideas, thoughts, projects, or ways of doing things.

2. You like to stick to conventional methods. Your mind tends to dwell on issues of security; home, family, and domestic affairs. These people are attached to family life. They are educated and a religious . They make good parents, educators and critics. They own property and good vehicles.

3. This position indicates that the native will change his residence several times. He will have a likable and friendly mother. His domestic life will be happy. He will like to change his vehicle often.

4. An interest in history, the past, and nostalgia may be lifelong.

5. You have a long memory, especially if Mercury is in an earth or water sign and in the 4th house. You tend to view things through the scope of your own life rather than being objective.

6. You like to engage with your family members, and want your home to be an active place where you can exchange ideas.

7. You may have a strong interest in your family history and the stories that are passed down. History in general could be of interest to you, and you like to study the past.

8. If you have Mercury in the 4th House, you tend to be studious, with literary interests. You like to study at home. Continual studying gives you a sense of inner security.

9. Some of you might enjoy working at home or keeping a lively, intellectual atmosphere in your home.

10. Not such a good positions for mercury since its limits the social scene for the native. Even though the native has a good home and good communication inside the house, it can limit how much communication a person can have outside of home.

11. You tend to retain a lot of information, and are usually quite interested in history, psychology, or politics. You are not quick to embrace a new idea or plan, and can be quite traditional in your thinking.

12. There can be many changes of residences due to your restlessness and your need to find a place for yourself. Wherever you end up, your home will no doubt contain a study area or a special spot where you can just talk to friends and acquaintances.

13. It is usually in the private sphere that you can communicate and think for your best interests.

14. You may also work at home, and in any case, you are generally more outgoing when you are in a safe and private environment. This is a good position for a real-estate developer, and agents.

15. When you are outside, you come across as unobtrusive, either because you don't pay much attention to events that are not directly related to you, or because you are just shy and on the defensive when it comes to worldly things or public domain.

16. Your family is of tremendous importance, and your intellectual interests incline you towards real estate matters, asset management, family business, etc.

17. With a fourth-house Mercury there may have been a parent who was somewhat detached in the chart holder's childhood.

Mercury in 5th House

1. With your natal Mercury in the 5th house, you can be a lively communicator. You have a great sense of humor, and are a fun person to be around. You are a learned person, talented in research, able in calculations And a writer or counselor. They have affection for astrology and are devoted to the chanting of mantras or prayers

2. If you have Mercury in the 5th House, Your thoughts are irresistibly attracted to hobbies and entertainments, your way of communicating is often pleasant, charming. For you, sexiness is in the brain.

3. You may have acting, writing, or speaking ability. You can be witty and humorous, an engaging communicator, and a fun friend.

4. You love playing games, especially ones that employ your intellect. You love tricks, jokes, plays on words, and mimicry. You might be skilled at impersonations. Some of you could be clever at lying.

5. you might have a tendency to promise more than you can deliver, or overstate your case. In some way, you are very entertaining with the spoken and/or written word.

6. Curiosity can be a strong motivator for making social and romantic contact. Communication and intellectual rapport is most attractive to you when it comes to romance. In some cases, this can indicate more than one lover at once.

7. You might also take much pride in your children's intellectual abilities and talents.

8. You desire to pass on your knowledge to others and to learn from them as well. As a teacher, you enjoy stimulating the minds of others and encouraging your students to greater things. . If you have children, you want them to be intellectually talented. Teaching children or young adults may provide quite a lift for you. You would make a good teacher

9. You are the type who blends humor and charm in your speeches and who can spend many hours telling about your hobbies and detailing them with fire. This state of mind is favorable for love affairs or children's education. Your playful spirit often amazes children.

10. Games of strategy and skill challenge your intellect. You desire to communicate your thoughts in a clever, inspiring and dramatic manner.

11. For all those who want to be in the limelight, in theater, in public, then this is the best position for creative and artistic Mercury (Mercury in the 5th house). This position is all about fun and games, but also about learning ancient texts, and secrets of the world.

12. This is an excellent position for a comedian, impersonator, or actor. You can also be good at lying, and don’t see it as a negative thing. You can also make a good writer or speaker with your flair for words .This person makes one of the best written communicators, especially in romantic novel writing as 5th house is about love and romance, too.  

13. In love, you’re attracted to people who have strong intellectual abilities and connect with you mentally. Your father will be a decent and religious man.

14. Mercury is a dual planet, so this can show being attracted to or in love with two people at once. You can also play the field, or be drawn to people younger than yourself. 

Mercury in 6th House

1. With your natal Mercury in the 6th house, you’re exceptionally detail-oriented. You don’t miss a thing, no matter how small it may be, but you can have a hard time with the bigger picture because of that.

2. You’re good with organization, needing structure and order with your thoughts, ideas, and Projects. It might be hard for you to get your mind to quiet down and it always seems to be going nonstop, which can lead to nervousness and anxiety.

3. It would be good for you to find outlets for your mental energy, but also try to find ways to calm yourself down. You could work as a writer, in communications, advertising, with technology, or work with your hands.

4. If you have Mercury in the 6th House, Your intelligence is rather practical or concrete. You are often interested in health and you are very keen to turn each day into a source of intellectual stimulation.

5. You have analytical ability with a possible love of computers and electronics.

6. Mercury in the 6th house makes one a deep thinker, a very brilliant accountant, finance professional, and a computer programmer, however, this person does too much thinking and analyzing than action work. They may think so much that the opportunity will come and go by the native.

7. You are excellent at sorting things out, organizing, and making lists and associations. With your attention to the details and the mechanics, however, you might miss the bigger point! You are exceptionally helpful and others can count on you for making arrangements, researching, and offering advice.

8. Nervous tension could be at the root of many of your health complaints. If you become too concerned with details, your nerves may become frayed, thus causing health problems. Any ill health reflects wrong thinking and perhaps worries. Health could be adversely affected by negative thought patterns, nervous system needs special nourishing, especially the B vitamins.

9. Restlessness in work situations may lead to many changes of employment.You may be restless with a desire for frequent job changes. Service, possibly of a mental nature, appeals to you.

10. Variety in your work or workplace is important. Issues of health and diet interest you.

11. Detail-oriented Mercury helps the chart holder properly sort through complicated tasks and dissect jobs into workable parts.

12.This position indicates a competitive or absorbed person, intent on work:, living alone or liking privacy. They have interruptions in education.

Mercury in 7th House

1. The native will gain through his wife. He and his wife would be intelligent, well read and fond of elegant dresses. His spouse will be much younger than him in age. She may be related to him through a distant branch of the family. She will be quick witted and smart.

2. If Mercury has adverse influence, there may be constant tension in marital life due to her sharp tongue. Losses by way of litigation related to marriage are also indicated by this location when Mercury is under adverse influence. Marriage may take place through correspondence or may be a result of travelling. The native will be intuitive.

3. When the planet is weak or is influenced by adverse factors, the native's spouse will be an indiscreet talker and the native may not be able to sexually satisfy her. His relationships with persons coming in contact with him will be fast changing and superficial.

4. A good house for Mercury is the seven house, where it makes a person very business minded, with good communicative skills with the opposite sex, and partners in life and business.

5. This is an intelligent, spiritual person, well-liked by others, who can speak convincingly. They are well-dressed, married early in life, and are at least moderately successful in business. They change jobs or marriage partners frequently. They enjoy worldwide travel. Skilled with their hands, they can do things which require attention to details.

6. Communication is your forte. You use your entire intelligence efficiently in order to achieve agreements, compromises, or contracts. Communication with a partner is craved, and you also love an audience for your own thoughts and opinions, but preferably a one-person audience, as you come alive verbally when it's one-on-one.

7. You are a born negotiator, or at least, that's what you try to be because you are not mentally self-centered and your thoughts are more aimed at others rather than at yourself.

8. You desire your spouse or business partner to be sharp, curious, clever and alert. You need to communicate and exchange ideas and information with your partner.

9. Promotion of ideas to and from others appeals to you and you are always up for a good debate, discussion or argument.

10. Marriage may be quite often on your mind. You desire a marriage or business partner that provides you with mental satisfaction and challenge. . Your partner may be educated, quick-witted, fluent, volatile, restless, high- strung as well as outspoken, argumentative, wordy and critical. Nervousness or mental imbalance may be present.

11. Your partner may possibly be connected with education, writing, traveling, sales, language interpretation or clerical, secretarial, typing or computer work.

12. In order to achieve the most positive results from any partnership you should learn to control your argumentativeness and your desire to criticize.

13. You tend to be attracted to intellectual types. Since Mercury is a dual planet and this is the house of commitment, you could have to choose between two people, or be married twice or have two long-term relationships in your life. You could also be drawn to those younger than yourself.

14. This is a beneficial placement. One-to-one relationships are not taken overly seriously and there is not likelihood for hurt feelings. Rather, the chart holder with a seventh-house Mercury will approach these relationships with a slightly detached and analytic style. Problems are discussed rationally and finding solutions to problems is always the goal instead of engaging in power struggles or emotional games.

15. People who have Mercury in their seventh house have a light approach to one-to-one relationships. They enjoy conversation and prefer to keep the topics varied.

16. People with Mercury in their seventh house or Gemini on their descendant are often attracted to relationships with Gemini-like people who are detached, verbal and rational.

Mercury in 8th House

1. If you have Mercury in the 8th House, You have a great, investigative, and penetrating mind and you are excellent at developing strategies, as well as communicating them with others.

2. With your natal Mercury in the 8th house, you like to dive into what drives people to do what they do. You enjoy investigating people, projects, and ideas, and are a good researcher. You’re drawn to things that seem mysterious or taboo.

3. You have a powerful way of communicating, and people tend to take you seriously. You can come across too intense at times, and you absolutely loathe superficiality and small talk. If you don’t have anything important to say, you don’t say anything at all.

4. You can be good with joint finances and dealing with money that isn’t yours, so this can be a good placement for a stockbroker, accountant, etc. 

5. You have a very analytical bent, and your mind excels at making practical decisions. Your ideas run deeper than superficial issues, which could mean an interest in depth psychology and occult and mystical subjects.

6. One with Mercury in this house can expect good longevity, decent education, and happiness through the investigation of mystic knowledge, few children, an inheritance and early separation from their mate.Nervous complaints, tendency to speak ill of others, limited number of close friends, and knowledge of reincarnation are also to be expected Possibility of an inheritance can be legal complications, or issues over shared resources. Smoking is not advised with this placement.

7. You are a born investigator. You want to get to the bottom of who, what, where and why.  You may tend to worry over fluctuating finances.

8. You have talent for analysis, research, and insight, tax preparation, insurance and perhaps detective work. You may have a good mind for finances, medicine, and other subjects that require research and investigation.

9. You speak with authority and others listen, having strong persuasive powers which should be used carefully. You tend to feel that everything we do and experience has a purpose.

10. Not a good position for Mercury, as it forces it to be isolated, and a quite personality, gives lots of skin problems, as well as pain in back and hands, unless Mercury is its own sign.

11. This position however gives lots of support from in-laws, and taking huge loans for big business

12.Your mind may be preoccupied with death, sex, healing, magic or psychic phenomena. Astrology, death, after-life and such mysterious topics are so attractive to you.

13. Watch a tendency to gossip about others. While driving, be careful.

14. Mercury doesn't allow the chart holder to get weighed down in emotion and keeps issue in the conscious rather than unconscious realm. Because the eighth house is a water house, so many of the problems experienced here are due to an inability to understand and express them accurately.

15.Floating around in misunderstood emotions can be painful. Mercury can sort through these feelings and understand them rationally, releasing the chart holder from the pain of unconscious emotion. Or, Mercury can simply dismiss the feelings as irrational and unnecessary. Either way, Mercury in the eighth house acts as a pressure-relief valve and is a beneficial placement.

Mercury in 9th House

1. With your natal Mercury in the 9th house, you’re always on the hunt to learn something new. There’s no greater quest than the quest for knowledge, at least in your mind. By learning about so much, you feel that you expand your mind and your life.

2. You are eternally curious and hunger for knowledge. You enjoy studying and learning, and do it not because you have to, but because you want to. You enjoy exchanging ideas and personal philosophies with others.

3. Mercury in the 9th house is again forced to sit and study than having a relaxing communication. It can give a high education to the native, and a very philosophical nature.

4. You like to share what you’ve learned rather than keep it for yourself, and find joy in teaching others. You can be blunt to a fault, offer your opinion when people don’t want it, and need to learn to censor yourself a little if you don’t want to find yourself in trouble all of the time. You seem positive and enthusiastic in your communications. 

5. If you have Mercury in the 9th House, you are flexible, with an adaptable mind which has an interest in perhaps intellectual pursuits, law, religion or philosophy. You are interested in higher knowledge, whether in the moral, spiritual, political or religious field.

6. You have many ideas and beliefs with the ability to express them well verbally. You probably enjoy travel and foreign culture and it is particularly educational for you.

7. You may be a teacher or be involved in higher learning in some other way. Interest may exist in publishing or advertising. You have the ability to learn foreign languages or to be a translator.

Mercury in 10th House

1. If you have Mercury in the 10th House, You are good with language, and generally use this talent in your profession. You are talented at communicating and negotiating with those in authority.

2. With your natal Mercury in the 10th house, when you communicate, you do so with authority. You demand that people listen, and they usually do, though you can be overly bossy at times.

3. The 10th house rules your career, so you tend to gravitate towards Mercury-related professions, and could work in communications, as a writer or speaker, with technology, or doing anything with words.

4. Since Mercury is a dual planet, you could have two different professions in your life, or work two at the same time. You need variety and change in your career, and if you don’t know what you want to do, you change work often. A job with constant stimulation is best for you.

5. Mercury in the tenth house focuses the mind on career and how one is known in the world. One likes to use one's mind in practical ways in order to accomplish goals and attain higher positions. One may use knowledge and ideas in one's work and can be quite competitive.

6. You might have more than one job going at once much of the time, you could change your career directions frequently, or you could be attracted to jobs that keep you on the move.

7. You require frequent changes of setting or activities in order to remain stimulated and challenged. You are skilled at bringing fresh energy to your conversations or to your job, perhaps because you need the stimulation.

8. You have the ability to communicate your ideas to others and to be recognized for them. Perhaps you will write or speak as a career. The teaching profession may hold promise for you.

9. They have sales and oratorical abilities. Good educational opponunities come their way; they may become writers or doctors. Earnings through publishing, secretarial work, medical supplies and messenger work may manifest.

10. You may have several jobs, as you have a variety of talents. There is a possibility of travel in your profession. Your natural mobility enables you to constantly adjust and to get the positions you want. Your professional achievement is often the result of your ability to understand that the key to success is in changing.

11. In any case, it is unlikely that you remain in the same company or the same sector all your life, unless the said sector is full of variety, human rapports and travels.

12. This is one of the best positions for Mercury in terms of an executive position in politics, tech sector and communicative sector. Here Mercury becomes multi-dimensional, where a computer programmer can become a lawyer, and turn out to become a president of a country; after leaving office they can write a book about their life.

13. Tenth house position of Mercury is a very outgoing personality who loves communication and networking with people. 

Mercury in 11th House

1. This is the most fun position for Mercury in the 11th house. This is all about having a good time with friends and networking collogues. It’s all about pleasing everyone, and doing big business through social networking and media.

2. You respect people who seem intellectually advanced. You’re always looking towards the future and making plans for your future dreams, though your dreams may change frequently.

3. You could have two separate, distinct dreams for your future. Friendships tend to be more casual and superficial, and you like people who are chatty, though they may not be very loyal. You can be idealistic, and want people to treat each other well.

4. If you have Mercury in the 11th House, You are endlessly curious about people, group interactions, community affairs, trends, and teams. You’re attracted to innovative, original ideas and thinkers. You want people in your life who challenge conventional thinking and force you to think outside of your own box.

5. You are very forward-looking and fair-minded. Fair play, impartiality, and unselfishness are important ideals for you.

6. You could be the spokesman or secretary for your favorite group or organization.

7. You are less inclined to undertake strictly personal projects. Your mind and your curiosity include friends and collective projects. You believe that your particularly well-developed sociability is an asset for them.

8. Collective works, customers and public domain appeal to you, and you feel that you can achieve in those fields.

9. Your negotiating skills are paradoxically stronger when you face the anonymity of a group than in intimate individual exchanges, may be only because you have no real interest in your own projects, for several reasons.

10. This is an influential person, knowledgeable in a variety of subjects. Earnings through agriculture, possession of a large library, friendship with important persons will occur. This is likely to be a truthful person with good wealth, servants, a profitable business and the chance to hear knowledge from the right sources.

Mercury in 12th House

1. With your natal Mercury in the 12th house, you tend to keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself. The 12th house tends to hide whatever energy the planet within it rules, and with Mercury, it’s all about your mind. You’re less willing to volunteer your ideas, and you may come across as shy and quiet, especially in your younger years.

2. It takes time for you to learn how to communicate in a clear, direct way. Learning is best done through emotions and imagination rather than through cold, hard facts. You likely learn best on your own, away from other people. You may find that people drain your mental energy, and you need time away to recharge.

3. Mercury in the twelfth house is detriment and focuses the mind through intuition, contemplation, and meditation. One is often interested in the hidden, mysterious, mystical, the unfortunate, and institutions of social rehabilitation. One usually likes to study in a quiet or solitary environment.

4. If you have Mercury in the 12th House, You are not very quick to speak or communicate, especially in childhood, as you need to develop trust in your own abilities to express yourself.

5. You are secretive and have the ability to understand the deeper meanings of life, you have intuitive and subtle mind with an interest in the metaphysical world. You are quite mysterious, interested in humanitarian issues. Your intellectual vision is strangely tinted with some form of mysticism and individual withdrawal. You may lack confidence in yourself.

6. Materially speaking, they may have debt, incomplete education, and lack of occupational opportunities, an unstable mentality few intimate friends. And Aadulterous tendencies and few children as well.

7. Your thoughts remain often secretive, and you communicate in a discreet and sober way. The reasons may be your upbringing or your temperament

8. You might make matters too complex by overanalyzing motives or hunches, and then have problems acting on your intuition as a result. Learning to communicate clearly is a challenge for you.

9. Secret enemies may try to undo you or speak evil of you.

10. Be careful of your ears and your hearing, which may be weak.

11. Mercury in the 12th house also gives a dull mind unless sitting with Venus or Jupiter.

12. Those with Mercury in the 12th house can have introspective, obsessive and private thoughts they may often be unable to express. This placement can indicate someone with an extremely sensitive mind, and one that is highly influenced by the currents. Many astrologers believe this is a weak position for Mercury to be, and state the person feels weak or inferior in some way when communicating.

13. In many ways it can make life difficult on a strictly mercurial level (communicating, speaking and local travelling in the most mundane sense). However, with Mercury here the imagination is heightened, mental psychic powers deepened, and the individual finds a new level of expression.

14. The person works beautifully when involved with dream-work, psychology and understanding the unconscious.

15. Sometimes they suffer from too much information drifting into the mind and must learn to shut out the thoughts of others, to know what it is that they think. They need to guard against intruding thoughts from others in order to clear their own mind.

16. The person with Mercury in the 12th house may feel that others misrepresent what they are saying, and confuse matters. The individual may be prone to mental anxiety and worrying too much, and trying to unconsciously control the chaos by being super organized. However, sooner or later everything may feel as if it has all fallen apart again.

17. Sometimes Mercury in the 12th house shows up physically in the individual and they could have a learning disability, hearing problem, or speech problem preventing them from being truly understood. This may leave them feeling disconnected from reality, people and places, and feeling so out of the loop they may feel highly vulnerable about their mental capacity.

18. The person may also feel their thoughts are too disorganized, overwhelming and there is too much information making it difficult to gain clarity. They are so attuned to the inner experience, and hiding their thoughts that it may be hard for others to understand. Maybe there is a large tendency towards fantasizing, imagining, and drifting off a lot of the time. They just need to sift through a lot of the past and understand it to be as present as they can be.

19. Mercury in the 12th house reflects a great talent in writing, speaking in regards to the intellect. However, there is always a struggle and the person may have to first untangle the feelings of why they feel so inferior mentally, and how their upbringing may have some part to play in the condition of their thinking.