Node-o-rama

my Mercury is in Scorpio.  On my midheaven.  I have had more jobs than I can count.  Mercury, the traveler, has moved me silently from one job to another.  Most of my jobs require communication, sometimes alot of it (I have Jupiter in Gemini) BUT I also have long periods of silence in many of my jobs.  I work best in the silence. 

Deep, deep silence.  I hold all my feelings in.  Sometimes my communications with people feel like they smoothly go from here to there, but other times I wonder if they see me as peculiar, not speaking much when not necessary.

I have Sun and Part of fortune in Sag.  both in the 11th house.  I love to be around Sag energy.  My husband has a sag rising, my son is dating a sag rising.....my twins have Sag midheavens. 

I was really surprised to hear last night that my son dating the sag rising doesn't want to buy a home and settle down.    He wants to rent long term and never buy a home.  But, not sure why I would wonder when I look at my own life and the twists and turns buying property has brought in. 

Freedom calls me.  Owning property ties us down sometimes.  When I was very young, in my early years....I wouldn't own anything that wouldn't fit in a backpack.  Very Sag time.  Probably had all my Scorpio planets progressed into Sag then.

Mercury in Virgo - but only 9 minutes shy of Libra!

I am able to get my head around vast amounts of detail, particularly of a practical nature, mainly because I'm very good at grouping and organising it mentally.   
I'm an analyser.

Perhaps because of the almost-Libranness of it, I am able to see all sides of an issue and often take a long time deciding a course of action. On the other hand, I can sometimes act quite impulsively without thinking at all (Moon rising in Aries).

So when I communicate, especially about work or practical matters, it's usually the organised detail  that comes through, either verbally or written. If I'm  communicating information to help someone make a decision, I like to present as many angles as possible, for and against. I like balance.

I like precision in communication and I can't abide sloppy spelling, punctuation or grammar. And I detest people who don't enunciate clearly. Really would like to string them up on the clothes-line.

In love and intimate friendships, I like to communicate, period. I could spend hours just listening to another person reflect on their emotional, spiritual and psychological truths - provided it is truthful, considered and meaningful. I love to sit down with someone close and say, well what do you think about that... and then weigh their reflections and insights in the still pool of my own soul. This could have a lot to do with Venus and Mars in water signs and air houses, perhaps.

Conversely, I don't suffer fools gladly. Short on patience. Expect every word to matter.

In learning, my natural approach varies with the kind of things being learned: tasks - learn best by doing; information - learn best by seeing and hearing; names and facts - learn best by repeating. I don't regard myself as a fast learner, but as a thorough learner with an often astonishing recall. Have an annoying habit of remembering conversations verbatim years after the event.

Hey Paula, besieged moons sounds like a good thread!

Last edited by Plutonia (20 Feb 2009 14:09)

I've got Mercury in Aries and I tend to think in lightning bursts.  I'm well known among my friends for starting out a sentence with one point, pausing as another idea occurs to me (sometimes without a pause) and then going right into another point without taking a breath. I have the worst time with that when I type, because my mind just forges ahead and sometimes I'll omit whole words or phrases in my haste to get it all down to match the pace at which it goes through my brain.

I definitely dominate conversations if I don't pay attention, and very often end up in a leadership role of any group I'm in, simply because I always have something relevant to say. I'm also -very- bad at interrupting. I've worked hard to keep from being rude, but sometimes it escapes me. Thankfully that doesn't happen online.

My Mercury is also conjunct my Moon, so I can keep my feelings hidden if I choose when I speak, but I'm also very skilled at expressing them. I use that to teach difficult concepts to people - I use my Moon intuitively to assess what examples and level of communication resonate with them, and then I will tailor my speech to their needs. I often doesn't even know rationally what I'm doing, and instead it just happens.

I for one really identify with all of the descriptions relating to Sag in all of these posts (four planets including mercury there).

Also wondering if any Mercury in Taurus people tend toward frankness in their communication style...?  Is this quality something that stands about about the way in which Taurus people communicate?

Keishin mentioned interrupting - I have a tendency to (try to) finish people's sentences which I get very annoyed about.  I have to work very hard to stop myself from doing this.  I don't think it's Merc in Taurus.  Perhaps more that 3rd house Sag I mentioned earlier...?  I think I do it more to people I'm very close to like my partner and close very friends.  Which may be my 7th house House Aries cusp with Mars in Cancer on the MC?  Not sure.  I don't think I do it to people I don't know very well...

Speaking frankly?  hmmmm, I think so, although I may need to ask some people close to me to check what they think.  I'll get back to you

My sister has Mercury in Libra and people are constantly telling her what a nice voice she has on the phone.  It is very feminine and soothing.  She is also extremely fair-minded, sometimes to a fault, IMHO - always cutting slack to people even when they don't deserve it.  I'm trying to remember now if I've ever heard her say a bad word about anyone, and, come to think of it, I don't think I have.  Her sun is in Virgo and it's not that she won't be critical of anyone, but when she is she does it in a very constructive way without putting the person down.  Recently, I saw her get angry at someone who very much deserved it (believe me they deserved it) and then afterward she felt bad about it.  Her Mars is in Libra too which I'm sure plays into it as well.

My Mercury is in Sag. Sometimes words come out my mouth before I realise that I'm going to say them. I'm trying to train myself to think hard before I speak, but I'm not doing that well!

I work in publishing and I read a lot.

My brother has his Merc in Virgo and he can be quite pedantic. Sometimes he drives me nuts when he doesn't just let my 'lazy' sentences go.

Newmoon

I have Mercury in Capricorn. I'm a critical thinker and like to play devil's advocate - or used to more when I was younger. I tend to see the gaps in people's logic, the grammatical errors, the better way they could be teaching something. I (also!) have 4 planets in Sag - and sometimes, again more when I was younger, put foot in mouth. I don't like waffling around or indirectness. I hate meetings or hearing people repeat themselves or put a false face on. Don't I sound charming? I often don't let people see the critical side but it's there even though ameliorated with (some) maturity or compassion. Merc is in 10th - so i have a lot of stuff about teaching w all those Sag planets in the 9th.

My Mars is just now progressing out of Sag which is coinciding with my moving to the first house I plan to spend more than a year living in - since I turned 16 (now 38) - oops i did live in one house for 2 years but always knew that I'd be moving on and never really settled in. That's not really about Mercury but since people were discussing Sag and so forth.

Molly,

I agree!  I attribute his dryness and his measured words to his Aquarius south node - intelligent, detached, and up in his head a lot.  Then, when he gives a public speech, he "performs" like a Leo.

My Mercury is in Sag as well, but it is in an exact conj with Neptune.  I love to read and can experience things either directly or indirectly.  I love music and enjoy writing.  I can talk about things based purely on intuition and I can definitely get lost in my thoughts for hours on end.  I have to make a conscious effort not to cut off my words when I speak because my mind definitely thinks faster than I can get the words out.

I have merc in scorpio conj neptune. You sure wouldn't guess I have Moon in Gemini haha. I don't talk very much & I hate hate hate superficial "small talk." I don't like talking on the phone, either. My husband also has a Gemini moon but not aspected like mine & everybody in every shop and store within 10 miles of us knows him haha because he is Mr Chatterbox haha.

I feel the same way Daria (I have Saturn in the 3rd so it might be that too). I write way better than I speak.