Planets › Mercury
☿︎ Mercury
Mind and message.
Messenger and trickster: thought, speech, trade, and travel. Famous for its retrogrades, three or so each year.
Right now
Mercury stands at 20° Virgo. Drag it on the live clock to travel through time.
Current aspects
| Sun conjunction Mercury | orb 7.7° |
| Moon square Mercury | orb 3.3° |
| Mercury sextile Mars | orb 4.3° |
When the Sun and Mercury meet at the same point of the wheel, warmth and purpose fuses with quickness and wit, for better and for worse.
In the traditional scheme Mercury carries thinking, talking, and trading. It connects wherever there is thought, speech, and exchange; what it offers is quickness and wit, what it looks for is something to work out, and its failure mode is restlessness.
Mercury spends from three to nine weeks in a sign, depending on its loops. It turns retrograde three or four times a year for about three weeks at a time, the most famous retrograde of all.
Read well, Mercury shows as a clear, agile, curious mind. Read badly, it slides toward nervous talk that never lands.
Dignities
Mercury traditionally rules Gemini and Virgo. It is exalted in Virgo, its strongest placement by tradition.
Mercury in each sign
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♋︎ Cancer
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♑︎ Capricorn
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
All planets & points.