☿ You've got Mercury in your astrology chart and I wanna teach you how to understand the role Mercury plays in your life's purpose.

Let's get to know Mercury.

🤓 Mercury rules Gemini ♊️ and Virgo ♍️.

☿ Mercury governs thought, writing, communication, mindset, decision making and learning.

⏳ It spends anywhere from 14 - 30 days in each sign and takes about 1 year to get around your entire chart by transit.

🥸 Mercury retrogrades 3-4 times every year.

🔭 Retrograde = backwards motion. Mercury doesn't literally move backwards, it only appears to move backwards from our viewpoint on Earth.

What this means, practically speaking, is that you're going to revisit thoughts, decisions or communications you've had related to the theme of the house Mercury is retrograding through in your natal chart.

🥰 If your natal Mercury is retrograde (you'll see a little "r" next to your ☿) you feel at home when Mercury moves retrograde. It feels natural and normal to you.

🤪 For non-retrograde babies, it feels WEIRD. You find yourself rethinking and redoing things, revisiting conversations and circumstances from the past and feeling like you and whomever you're chatting with are speaking two different languages (this can happen if they're a retrograde baby and you're not too).

☿ Mercury in your birth chart

🧠 Your natal Mercury shows you how your mind works, what you think about, how you make decisions, how fast or slow you'll change your mind, how you learn best, your relationship with reading, writing and education, your communication style and what you're on this planet to communicate and teach to others.

😔 If your mind isn't your BFF (more like a big bully), you struggle to learn new information, your communication skills are lacking or you struggle to make decisions, your Mercury placement will show you how to successfully navigate those struggles.

🥸 Which sign + house your Mercury is hanging out in, reveals how to make your brain your biggest ally, so you can learn, communicate and think better.

Any aspects (lines between planets) to your Mercury flavor it, which could make you feel less like the typical Mercury in whatever sign yours is hanging out in.

Pro tip: If you know what planet is aspecting your Mercury and what sign it rules, read that description below to see if it rings true.

Ex. I've got Mercury conjunct (next to) Saturn. Since Saturn rules Capricorn, it flavors my Virgo Mercury with a hint of Capricorn Mercury.

👀 Look at your chart to learn which sign Mercury ☿ is in and then find it below:

♈️ Aries: With your Mercury in Aries, your brain and mouth move fast. You speak with passion. You say things others aren't brave enough to say. You inspire action with your words.

Be careful not to speak from anger, aggression or competitiveness.

Your mouth sometimes opens before your brain can stop it, so practice taking a breath, dropping out of your mind and into your heart, where all that passion lives and then, once you're centered in your heart's wisdom, if you still need to speak, go for it.

You are here to motivate others with your written and/or spoken words.

♉️ Taurus: With your Mercury in Taurus, your mind processes information more slowly and methodically. It can get stuck on an idea, thought or belief making changing your mind, a process.

You are a great listener with so much practical and grounded wisdom to impart on other humans.

Your voice can be very beautiful and calming to others.

You are here to make others feel heard, valued and loved with your communication.

♊️ Gemini: Mercury likes being in Gemini. It's at home. Mercury and Gemini get each other. They're both curious, intellectual and fast moving.

With your Mercury in Gemini, your mind moves fast and changes often.

Your curiosity guides your mind to your purpose. Allow yourself to learn everything you can about anything that interests you without trying to figure out why you're interested in it or how you can make money doing it.

Trust, that you'll need that information someday. 

Keep the faith that your curiosity is leading you to a very specific level of mastery you will only understand in hindsight.

♋️ Cancer: With your Mercury in Cancer, your thoughts and your intuition can be hard to distinguish from each other. They go hand in hand.

Your words nurture, nourish and advocate for others. Speak from emotion, but make sure you're being intentional about the emotion behind your words.

Also watch out for the tendency to speak + respond passively, when you feel slighted, unseen or unappreciated by others.

Don't be afraid to use that loving voice of yours to advocate for yourself, as much as you do for others.

♌️ Leo: Mercury hates to be in Leo. Mercury moves fast and loves change. Leo is fire, but is fixed and longs for the good old days.

With your Mercury in Leo, you communicate, charismatically and sometimes dramatically.

When you make up your mind, you don't wanna change it.

You love to use your words to get attention. And you love to use your words to shower others with loving attention.

You're here to use your words to encourage other humans to have more fun, lead their lives from their heart and to connect with their own child-like wonder and innocence.

♍️ Virgo: Mercury loves to be in Virgo. Not only is it at home here, it's considered exalted. It's all the juicy goodness of Mercury with the benefit of earth energy to make it more grounded and practical. 

With your Mercury in Virgo, your mind is a judgy, perfectionist.

This is a good thing...as long as you're not turning it against yourself or other humans.

You're here to use that analytical, perfectionistic and organized mind of yours to make the world a better place in practical service to other humans.

♎️ Libra: With your Mercury in Libra, you're always thinking about equality, justice, balance and harmony.

You weigh your options carefully when making decisions, but you struggle to make a choice because you could easily argue for either choice.

AND because you deeply desire balance and harmony, your mind can easily be changed by your friends, family and loved ones' opinions.

You're here to play devil's advocate for others. You help them see there are many options and sides to a story, opportunity or circumstance. You teach them how to create balance and harmony in their lives.

♏️ Scorpio: With your Mercury in Scorpio, your mind is a deep, intuitive and intense place.

Your mind is penetrating and sees beneath surface BS to the heart of the truth.

You are pretty hard to shock and often don't react when others divulge their deepest, darkest and most shameful secrets.

On a bad day, your mind can tend towards obsession, compulsion, extremes, depression, possessiveness, jealousy, paranoia and manipulation.

On a good day, you make other humans feel so safe, seen and understood.

Your gift to the world is your ability to listen and hold conversations with other humans about the shadow side of humanity without judgment.

♐️ Sagittarius: Mercury doesn't like being in Sagittarius. Mercury is all about the details and Sagittarius is all about the big picture. 

With your Mercury in Sagittarius, you're optimistic, adventurous, philosophical and wise.

You love to expand your beliefs and perspectives. You're open minded to new experiences. Your integrity is important to you. You need your freedom.

You can be self-righteous, cynical and blunt. This happens when you become overly convinced that your beliefs are the only right ones and everyone else is dumb.

You're here to communicate the embodied wisdom you learned through the many adventures and experiences you've had in this lifetime, through story-telling.

♑️ Capricorn: With your Mercury in Capricorn, your mind is practical, logical and disciplined.

Your mind is convinced there's only one right way to do things (usually the hard way). It loves to have structure and rules to follow.

You're patient, strategic and goal-oriented.

When you speak, you speak with authority and others listen...even if you don't actually know what the heck you're talking about.

You're here to use your voice to be an authority figure and mentor for others to help them set and reach their desired goals.

♒️ Aquarius: Mercury loves to be in Aquarius. Mercury in Aquarius = genius vibes.

With your Mercury in Aquarius, you're smart. Your mind works in an unconventional and outside of the box way.

You're thinking about new inventions, innovations and ideas to make the world a better place for all humans.

Your words are inspiring to others and help them see things in a unique, forward thinking way.

♓️ Pisces: Mercury hates to be in Pisces. It's at its fall here. Mercury is very grounded in the physical and tangible reality, while Pisces is connected to the energetic and unseen realms.

With your Mercury in Pisces, you have quite the imagination and can create your very own fantasy world.

Be careful not to escape into your mind to hide away from the world when you're feeling too emotional or sensitive.

You're here to communicate your vision for the future that has all humans united, loving each other unconditionally and speaking from kindness and compassion.

Whichever house Mercury falls in your chart let's you know which areas of life you'll want to learn all the things. 

🏠 Mercury through the houses:

1st house: personality, self-image, physical body and perspective

2nd house: relationship with money, values, self-worth, material possessions

3rd house: mindset, self-talk, self-expression, writing, education, local community/neighborhood, communication, automobiles 

4th house: home, family of origin, ancestral lineage

5th house: passions, hobbies, inner child work, children, romance, casual sex, dating, fun and play

6th house: work routines, service to others, daily habits, health, work environment

7th house: partnership, marriage, close relationships, 1 on 1 work, contracts/deals/agreements

8th house: death, rebirth, transformation, other people’s money, debt, taxes, manifestation, occult practices, sex, anything considered taboo

9th house: long distance travel, adventure, higher moral beliefs and life philosophy, wisdom, big picture goals, publishing, teaching

10th house: career, public reputation, legacy, authority figures, impact on others

11th house: friendship, community, connections, groups

12th house: subconscious, dreams, spirituality, mysticism, rest and retreat, karma, connection with unseen beings/realms

That's Mercury!

🤓 Use your Mercury placement to master your mindset, communicate your wisdom + genius with intention and make supportive decisions to align with your life's purpose!

If you're loving what you're learning and want to learn all the things your astrology chart has to reveal about your life's purpose, I invite you to schedule a Purpose Astrology Reading with me.