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You have Mercury in Scorpio in the 7th house.

In mythology, Mercury is the winged messenger of the gods. In astrology, Mercury represents your intelligence; your transmission of information through speaking, writing or teaching; and your reception of information through observation, listening, reading or learning. He represents your senses themselves and all the data that you process. He’s how your senses respond to sensory stimulation, the disorganized what we play with mental images. Mercury symbolizes the linear and logical functions of the mind.

In your birth chart, Mercury lies in passionate, probing Scorpio. Mercury energy can be nervous energy, but Scorpio stabilizes and deepens it in the style of a detective or sorcerer or psychologist. With this Mercury placement, you need to communicate with sensitivity and depth. You need to have intense, passionate, mentally stimulating interactions with others. Whether you are very vocal or subdued about it, you need to apply your incisive powers of perception to what you read, what you see, and what you hear. Scorpio needs to turn over every leaf, look under every rock, and get to the root of a matter. Scorpio is associated with traditionally taboo subjects, the sorts of things that people don’t discuss in polite company. Therefore, in order to get to the heart of subjects that intrigue you, sometimes you’ll need to give voice to ideas that others might find disturbing.

Where do you most need to apply your sharp, probing mind? In your closest interactions with others.

Your Mercury also lies in the 7th house, the house of intimacy. That’s the same house that contains your Sun in Libra.

With Mercury in the 7th house, you need to engage others in conversations or partnerships that go the distance. Lighthearted small talk and a pleasant but superficial sense of engagement would only leave you bored or unsatisfied. If someone shrinks from looking at life with any great depth, out of fear of what he or she might discover, then you need to either steer clear of that person or limit the time you spend with him or her. To do otherwise would leave you bored and unsatisfied. Emphasize pairing up with those people who want to get to the bottom of things, who thrive on having deep knowledge and deep mental connections with others.

Depending on how you direct your thoughts and communication, you could develop the best or the worst potential of your Mercury. If you make develop the worst of your Mercury, then both your relationship with your own feelings and your relationships with those who are close to you become unbalanced somehow.

In one dark scenario, you lash out at others, thinking obsessively and communicating compulsively. If you don’t focus enough on your feelings, then try to keep them tucked away, out of sight and out of mind. You feel a chronic, vague anxiety that something awful could happen at any moment, or you compulsively pursue someone or something relentlessly without understanding what drives you to act the way that you do. You get into a pattern of unbalanced relationships, situations in which you are in a one-up (directive) position or a one-down (submissive) position relative to the other person.

If you take a one-up position, then you use your incisive mind and sharp tongue to bully or terrorize others. You get into intense arguments. You make harsh, brutal comments. You interrogate people relentlessly. Your communication could also take on a seductive or hypnotic quality, but underneath the surface you’re still going off on a power trip. At the extreme, you could commit crimes against property or other people. If you take a one-down position, then you might punish yourself by keeping up such an intense pace, for so long, that you burn yourself out.

In another scenario, you withdraw into yourself, nursing your psychological wounds and shying away from close, stable emotional connections with others. In that case, you fixate on your darkest feelings. Maybe you obsess about death, or you see others as being out to get you. You lose all sense of perspective, and you become mired in bitter brooding or depression. Maybe you avoid getting into close relationships with others because you worry that you’ve become too vulnerable, too dependent on the other person. You’re afraid of intimacy. Maybe you depend too much on the other person, or you worry that you’ll become too dependent on the other person.

If you develop the best potential of your Mercury, then you don’t pull your punches when communicating or relating closely to others.

You neither avoid looking at your feelings nor dwell on them. You courageously let your mind go wherever it will. You let yourself become aware of whatever it is that you’re feeling, and you let this awareness affect your behavior for the good. You live with honesty and intensity, as if every day were your last. You don’t shy away from partnering or communicating deeply with others. If you connect with people closely through your writing, then you research your subject matter deeply and you write about it thoroughly, in a revealing fashion. If you connect with people in terms of their inner lives, then you play a supportive, psychologically therapeutic role with them. You don’t pussyfoot around the important subjects, and you don’t terrorize people by tearing their last shred of privacy or emotional self-protection. If you provide practical support for others, then you walk through fire if need be to help them escape from dire situations or turn their lives around. You develop close, mentally stimulating connections that have several important qualities: equality of status between the two of you, the expectation that the relationship will survive changing circumstances indefinitely, and a sense of special rapport. Perhaps you take a close relationship to another level, by developing a personal relationship with a business associate or pursuing a shared passion with a romantic partner or close friend.

If you want to have work or sideline interests that engage your mind deeply, then you might consider science or health care: research, medicine, or teaching healing principles, for example. You could start your own company or finance someone else’s venture. In the arts, you could try your hand at photography, writing, producing, composing, or performing. Scorpio is associated with matters that lie beneath the surface. Applying that principle, you could become a plumber, psychologist, or even a secret intelligence agent. 

 

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