posted September 18, 2008 11:31 AM         

I find this planet one of the most interesting.
Communication and information in the words highest meanings.
Besides our rising sign, this planet must be the first part of our birthchart we share with the world around us.
Our way of thought, our way of speech, our intellect in general.
Im starting this thread in hope that others will tell me their point of view on their own Mercury placement.
Please dont make it so complex, just considering the general characteristics of ur placement.

Thx

posted September 18, 2008 02:56 PM         

I like to think I'm a practical thinker. I'm pragmatic and I work on the principles of rationale and logic. I also like to think I'm fexible (Sun Gemini) but if I make up my mind on something I can be quite stubborn, apparently.

Happy Dragon put up a post about this sign, saying that Taurus Mercury people have to feel the truth of something before they will commit to it. That made me laugh, it still makes me smile a couple of months later. It is absolutely true, spot on. I check facts, I churn things over in my mind before I decide on a course of action. I am very thorough in researching things.

My Mercury (distancing myself from all blame) is most annoyed by bullsh!tters, people who argue from a position of emotion/prejudice and my insane mother.

Factors on my chart affecting Mercury includes its aspects:

He is in a wide Conjunction to Saturn.
He is in a close Conjuntion to Venus.
He is in a wide Square to Mars.
He is in a close Square to the NN.
He is Trine Pluto.

posted September 18, 2008 03:56 PM         

I live to talk, write and communicate. I have a hunger for information that can never be satisfied.

I think a lot about myself and I like to talk about myself in a philosophical, analytical context.

I usually try to be diplomatic (I have learned that the hard way), but I hate smalltalk (I just get soo easily bored, if a talk doesn`t fascinate me, and for most of the time I can`t focus long on something that really bores me. Why should I?), and now and then there can be quite impulsive honest remarks; communication develops in a sponaneous way, I never know where it will take me or us, but that`s half the fun of it, isn`t it?

And I love learning about myself, about my friends, about the way people "tick", because there is nothing as fascinating in this world as the human psyche.

And I love to laugh. I am not funny myself, but I can find a joke in almost every situation. Even though sometimes the joke is on me, I fear.
But I`m okay with it, as long as it is a good one.

posted September 18, 2008 04:36 PM         

i have a very rounded education. adept in piano playing and mechanical fixes which, i've been told, are associated with uranus conjunct mercury. as well as breakthroughs in ways of thinking etc.

i give credit to my mercury for my great interest in Arab culture/language. I also think introspectively. Enjoy reading philosophy. especially existentialism. A great joke never hurt either . just not a chuck norris one. god those are sooooo dull

posted September 18, 2008 05:30 PM         

Sagittarius = big picture. It helps that my Asc is in Gemini, so I am also forced to look at the small details. Having lots of planets in Libra helps me to see all sides to a story.

posted September 19, 2008 02:48 AM         

It's one of those depressing facts of life that these are the people in charge of decision making in publishing houses and record companies.

I'm talking about formula guy, if it isn't obvious.

posted September 19, 2008 03:44 PM         

I can basically 2nd everything the other Sag Mercuries have said here..I love to learn about people, the mind, myself in an analytical way, travel, culture, languages (and I pick these up very easily!), fitness, nutrition, philosophy, sex, relationships, drugs and the idea of alternate realities/dimensions, religion & spirituality, death and rebirth.

I do not like small talk because I find it awkward and I know I come across as awkward when I don't know what to say. I find it VERY hard to talk about my emotions or anything very personal, though I am a highly emotional person.

My quest for knowledge, any knowledge, and experience..any experience..is insatiable. I live for doing, feeling, and being..I don't care if the experience is good or bad, or anything in between..I just feel more fulfilled knowing that I have gone through different experiences.

I'm bored easily (my mind must always be occupied..sometimes I have 10 different windows up at once, all about different things), talk in a superficial and humorous way sometimes to a fault, am bold in speech. I find humor in everything, sometimes inappropriately, and the quirkier the better. Think Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Office..that's my type of humor..it doesn't always make sense.

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Capricorn sun / Scorpio rising / Sagittarius moon

posted September 21, 2008 12:26 AM         

*** I think it could make me psychologically strong (just thinking about that the other day).

*** I have deeply ingrained fixed ideas, even though I can easily be persuaded with general ideas.

*** I love to be creative, but in no way a poet or artist.

*** I seem to incidentally inspire people.

*** I LOVE to explain things to my students, but do not like talking for a long period in the classroom.

posted September 21, 2008 12:56 PM         

I love expressing myself, & exchanging thoughts and ideas about different topics (mercury rules my 5th and 8th house- so those themes are high on my list)

I'm very creative!-

posted September 22, 2008 01:57 AM         

To me, Mercury is one of my favorite planets. I love communicating with people sincerely. I am not superficial at all. I am a very logical and rational thinker that looks at all sides of an issue.