Astrologically speaking, wherever Mercury is in the chart is where we might be deceitful and prone to more sneaky behaviour, bending the truth somewhat to suit ourselves. This planet represents restlessness and a need for variety, change and room to move and thus can be associated with the unexpected, with coincidence and synchronicity or with events which seem accidental but may later have meaning or prove to serve a greater purpose. Even the fast moving transit of Mercury over your Ascendant or Venus can see you running into someone you didn’t expect to see.

People who are strongly mercurial may behave quite nastily or unkindly and yet they can do this with such charm and finesse that you’re almost prepared to overlook their misdemeanors, or they can be somewhat undecided or scattered in nature, never knowing whether they are coming or going. If you are strongly influenced by Mercury, your gift is your adaptability, a talent for mimicking the archetypal nature of the other planets if it suits you to do so and sometimes even when it is completely inappropriate. This is most often attributed to Gemini’s however these tendencies can be present in all of us.

Mercury’s house is an area of life in which we are meant to stay young, open and childlike in the best sense of the word and this involves kinesthetic thinking; imagining how you would like things to be and also feeling it in your own body and with all of your senses…mental rehearsal as it were.

Mercury in the chart indicates communication, travel and the exchange of ideas and information and governs reflective self consciousness and the ability to reflect consciously on the self and what one is doing. Our mental set relates to the way in which we evaluate the world and predisposes us to notice anything that supports or fits our expectations in relation to a particular person or situation. Our mental sets and life statements are what limit us or land us in trouble and yet it is through the mind and our thought processes that we are able to free ourselves from many of our difficulties by looking at things from a new perspective.