Library Planet
Mercury
How you think
Every planet in your chart stands for a part of you. Here's what Mercury covers, how to read it, and where to go next for your own placement.
What Mercury means
Mercury is your mind in motion: how you take things in, talk, text, plan and argue. It's also the planet of errands, emails and that list on the back of an envelope.
- Shows
- How you think
- Rules
- Gemini and Virgo
- Pace
- Around three weeks in each sign, longer when it goes retrograde (appears to move backwards).
In your chart
The house Mercury sits in is the subject your brain keeps wandering back to. Its sign shows whether you think in lists, feelings, pictures or arguments.
When it visits your houses
When Mercury passes through a house, conversations, paperwork and second thoughts pile up there. Good for sorting things out, less good for making your mind up quickly.
Mercury in each house
Tap your house for the full reading.
Mercury in each sign
The sign shows the style Mercury works in.
See where this sits in your chart.
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