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With the rise in popularity of astrology, people are beginning to learn that there is so much more to their astrological profile than just their Sun sign. Your full astrological profile is found in your birth chart, which is a two-dimensional representation of the layout of the solar system at the time you were born. Not only was the Sun in a particular sign when you were born, but so was every other astronomical body. This article will explore how to find your love match using your Mercury sign…
Each astronomical body becomes a point represented by an icon in a computer-generated birth chart. And, each point contributes to the complexity of your personality. So, finding your romantic partner is not just about how your Sun matches with someone else’s Sun, but also how your Mercurys match, and Mercury, and Venus, and so on.
It has never been easier to get your birth chart calculated, thanks to computer programs and online applications. AskAstrology has one: Birth Chart Calculator. Simply go to that page and scroll down to What is My Zodiac Sign? and enter the relevant information.
After you do so, the program will calculate your birth chart and give you an image that looks like. If you scroll down below the image, you will find a list of all the Planets and Points in the Signs that will tell you which point was in which sign at the time of your birth. Find your Mercury Sign and let’s continue!
Each point is elemental, and rules a sign and house in the Zodiac. Mercury is different because it has two rulerships, giving it two elemental values.
In one case it is an air point, which rules Gemini and the 3rd House. Air represents thought; Gemini rules communication, learning, and curiosity; and the 3rd House rules one’s understanding of the world, day-to-day interactions, and extended family (siblings if you have them, and other family members that are not your core family).
In the other case it is an earth point, which rules Virgo and the 6th House. Earth represents our material needs; Virgo rules health, skills, and practical action; and the 6th House rules day-to-day work, service, and commerce.
Mercury represents your Way of Communicating. Its placement in Sign and House reveals how we try to make sense of the world around us and develop our own internal dialogue, which we then try to communicate back into the world as we navigate our interactions.
With Mercury in Aries, I am an independent, maverick, and individualistic communicator. I communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote freedom. And, I prefer to make decisions by being assertive, direct, impulsive, fearless, and impatient.
Think of Mercury as your way of expression and your field of interpterion, which guides you through your interactions with everyone, and the world around you. Mercury is the representative for your thoughts.
Individuals with Mercury in Aries are independent, maverick, and individualistic communicators. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote freedom. They make decisions by being assertive, direct, impulsive, fearless, and impatient.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius
Individuals with Mercury in Taurus think about and communicate safety, stability, and pleasure. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote security and enjoyment of the physical world. They make decisions by being steadfast, reliable, responsible, conservative, resistant to change, and stubborn.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces
Individuals with Mercury in Gemini think about and interact through learning, mental stimulation, and communication. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote talking and listening, gathering and sharing information, and constant interaction. They make decisions by being mentally agile, curious, inquisitive, witty, hyperactive, and flighty.
Best Matches: This Mercury is adaptive and can really connect with all the other Mercurys, but will benefit most from the fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius), then the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn).
Individuals with Mercury in Cancer think about and interact through nurturing, caretaking, sympathy, and emotional support. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote compassion, belonging, and understanding. They make decisions by being caring, protective, receptive, reactive, sentimental, and vulnerable.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Capricorn, Taurus, and Virgo
Individuals with Mercury in Leo think about and interact through self-esteem, creativity, and self-expression. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote performance, enjoyment of self and others, and recognition. They make decisions by being proud, confident, expressive, dramatic, showy, and egocentric.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, Aries, and Sagittarius
Individuals with Mercury in Virgo think about and interact through efficiency, service, and inventiveness. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote competency, improvement, and problem-solving. They make decisions by being technical, precise, systematic, orderly, discriminating, critical, and meticulous.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces
Individuals with Mercury in Libra think about and interact through harmony, balance, and fairness. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote judgment, negotiation, and analysis. They make decisions by being engaging, charming, appealing, impartial, considerate, cooperative, and compliant.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius
Individuals with Mercury in Scorpio think about and interact through transformation, healing, sex, and power. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote reform, overcoming trauma, and intensity. They make decisions by being erotic, passionate, powerful, controlling, dangerous, manipulative, and regenerative.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Aries, Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo, and Pisces
Individuals with Mercury in Sagittarius think about and interact through truth, purpose, and morality. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote hope, faith, and belief in a higher power. They make decisions by being enthusiastic, philosophical, persuasive, expansive, and excessive.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius
Individuals with Mercury in Capricorn think about and interact through success, structure, and order. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote achievement, status, and goals. They make decisions by being serious, formal, realistic, exacting, organized, and conservative.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, Capricorn, Taurus, and Virgo
Individuals with Mercury in Aquarius think about and interact through awareness, the importance of social roles, and friendships. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote idealism, the needs of the many, and future visions. They make decisions by being detached, objective, original, eccentric, broadminded, rebellious, and humanitarian.
Best Matches: Mercurys in Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Gemini, and Libra
Individuals with Mercury in Pisces think about and interact through spirituality, transcendence, unity, and unconditional love. These people communicate best in careers, relationships, and families that promote imagination, dreams, and globalization. They make decisions by being passive, reflective, yielding, empathic, forgiving, escapist, and intuitive.
Best Matches: Like Gemini, this Mercury can really work with any sign, but does benefit from fixed signs the most (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius), then the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn).
As you might guess, when it comes to finding your match, it will get more complicated as you learn more about your chart, but it will also get more satisfying when you make a connection and understand where energy flows and where it struggles. Just by adding Mercury’s sign to your awareness, you can see how it can get tricky if you are, say, a Scorpio Sun, Leo Moon, and Virgo Mercury. Your Sun will prefer earth signs, your Moon will prefer fire and air signs, and your Mercury will prefer water signs.
In truth, all signs can find compatibility with all other signs because we are clearly more than our charts. However, the more you know about your design, the better you can be in a relationship and at making worthwhile and loving connections.
