Mercury in Synastry Chart Overlays...
The information merchant, Mercury is youthful, light and free. Mercury never allows itself to get weighed down with deep feelings, heavy commitments or boring routines.
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Representing a youthful quickness of the mind rather than maturity and thoughtfulness, Mercury is clever, but lacks wisdom, depth and feeling. The quick and constant accumulation and delivery of information constitutes Mercury's most natural pastime. Mercury has a keen ability to sniff out information that can be used for profit, and will retain the information it finds most useful. The rest will be dished out to the world for whomever is interested. Mercury lacks the depth and wisdom to use information for any reasons other than those which are self-serving. For the most part, this not a problem, but there are times when Mercury both knowingly and unknowingly creates harm. Gossip for the sake of entertainment and loopholes or tricks that deprive others are common hazards Mercury encounters in its quest to be keenest merchant of information.
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Fast moving Mercury is on a perpetual search for answers and relishes in solving seemingly unsolvable problems. Mercury is skilled in the art of finding back-door solutions to problems that can only be perceived by Mercury's keen mind. It will seldom confront problems with sheer force. Rather, Mercury will find a way around problems by finding loopholes or alternate pathways that are missed by more conventional thinkers. In the best of scenarios, this skill is based on an ability to put together many facts and find pathways to answers that others miss. In the worst, it is based on calculated and schemed trickery. We always hope that Mercury shows itself in the best light and avoids this pitfall.
In synastry chart overlays, your mate's Mercury brings its keen mental agility and light, detached, unemotional nature as its gifts to your chart. In some houses, such as the third and sixth, Mercury's detached, unemotional nature fits in perfectly and enhances the house. In other houses, like the fourth, eighth or twelfth, Mercury is an odd fit. These water houses, which are based on emotions and unconscious motivations, may find Mercury to be superficial, critical, or immature. Mercury always has the ability to foster communication and lighten heavy emotion, but Mercury should always take care to use tact, and withhold criticism about feelings that may seem trivial to Mercury but are very real to others.
In synastry chart overlays, your mate's Mercury brings its keen mental agility and light, detached, unemotional nature as its gifts to your chart. In some houses, such as the third and sixth, Mercury's detached, unemotional nature fits in perfectly and enhances the house. In other houses, like the fourth, eighth or twelfth, Mercury is an odd fit. These water houses, which are based on emotions and unconscious motivations, may find Mercury to be superficial, critical, or immature. Mercury always has the ability to foster communication and lighten heavy emotion, but Mercury should always take care to use tact, and withhold criticism about feelings that may seem trivial to Mercury but are very real to others.
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Your partner's Mercury in the first house of your synastry chart overlay will give you a more intellectual outlook, and investigative nature as you interact with the world. When you are with your partner, you may have a more detached way of dealing with new experiences. You may see the world as more of a place to be understood intellectually, rather than to be felt, or conquered and you will enjoy discussing this with your partner. Communication about your interactions with the world will come easily. In the second house, your mate's Mercury will make money and possessions a likely topic of discussion. You may notice avenues for profit that you didn't see before your relationship with your partner. As the natural home for Mercury, your mate's Mercury is powerful in the third house of your synastry chart overlay. Lightening communication by removing emotion and bringing its speed and fluency to the third house, Mercury makes conversations plentiful and easy. Its placement here gives you a more acute awareness of the words you choose and your style of learning. Your partner may even assist you with learning. Mercury in the fourth house of your synastry chart overlay lightens the heavy feel that this house naturally tends toward. By taking away some of the deep emotion of this house and adding a more detached feel, your partner's Mercury here can make home and family matters feel less dramatic and pressing. In the fourth house, Mercury can help a family move through problems by discussing them and solving them in a matter-of-fact manner rather than slowly moving through a long emotional process. However, Mercury should also be careful not to gloss over feelings that are important to family members. When your partner's Mercury is in the fifth house of your synastry chart overlay, you are energized to pursue fun activities simply for the sake of enjoyment. You and your partner will communicate easily about your likes and dislikes and will make time for fun because Mercury has a way of making things seem light and easy. Your parnter's Mercury in your sixth house is a great position. Mercury is at home here and will happily assist you in mundane tasks that need to get done, like paying bills, preparing food, and cleaning. Your mate is likely to assist, or at least remind you of, and offer advice in these types of tasks. In some ways, your partner's Mercury will make these tasks seem lighter and you will get them done more quickly. In the seventh house, your mate's Mercury will lighten your relationship, making it feel easy and breezy. Bringing an unemotional element to your communication, Mercury can make discussing compromises and social protocols of the relationship feel less awkward. However, it can also loosen and lighten things to the point where either one, or both of you take the relationship less seriously than you should. Mercury wants freedom and finds ways around rules. In the seventh house of initial relationship contracts, Mercury can find a way to talk you both out of having any rules which could sabotage the future of the relationship. Be careful to use Mercury's skill in the art of intellectual discussions as a catalyst for truthful
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discussions that strengthen your relationship rather than a springboard to rationalizing away meaningful rules and boundaries that keep the relationship strong and committed. Mercury's effect in the eighth house is quite similar to its effect in the seventh. Here it brings welcomed open and unemotional discussions to a house laden with deep emotional, often unspoken relationship issues. Again however, it is wise not to let Mercury show its dark side and cause either person in a relationship to rationalize away the essential emotional elements that keep relationships solid and committed. In the ninth house, Mercury is unlikely to reap any havoc in a relationship. But for those who take religion or philosophy to heart, Mercury can show itself as dry and insensitive.
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At its best, your partner's Mercury in the ninth house of your synastry chart overlay will add an openness to discussions of worldly topics, such as, religion. It will energize you to explore the world and discover its mysteries through education or travel. At its worst, Mercury here will pick apart closely held beliefs, dismissing them as unproven myths. Your partner's Mercury in your tenth house can help promote your public image. As the merchant of information, Mercury here can spread the word about your skills and talents which could land you lucrative career opportunities. Mercury can also be a gossiper, so if you have anything you don't want the world to know about you, let your partner know that these things are off limits as topics for public discussion. The same danger of gossip is present with your mate's Mercury in the eleventh house of your synastry chart overlay, so take care to make clear what information is private and what is public. Your mate's Mercury can be quite beneficial here however. By fostering communication in group settings, Mercury can offer a real gift in the eleventh house if you are frequently engaged in group activities or social movements. Mercury is a master at spreading information. If you have a message to spread to the world, your mate's Mercury here will certainly help. Or, if you need help navigating the sometimes complicated networks of large organizations, Mercury can always find the easiest, most efficient pathways or even loopholes to thrust you forward. Mercury is uncomfortable in the twelfth house. Your mate's Mercury here in your synastry chart overlay can cause awkwardness because Mercury deals in the exchange and communication of facts and information, but the twelfth house is about unconscious and unspoken feelings that are often vague and misunderstood, even by the person feeling them. Mercury here can persist on picking apart these feelings and discussing them when they really aren't understood enough to do so, or the person simply wants to keep them private. This can lead to feelings of distrust because your mate may think you are purposely withholding information. In the best case, if both parties are willing, Mercury here can help bring out unconscious feelings and open them up to discussions that help to soothe both of you.
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