Node-o-rama

Daria wrote:

Anyone out there with Mercury in Pisces that can share how this placement functions?  Is it difficult, perhaps, to express oneself with this position?  I have Mercury conjunct Neptune, and at times I feel as if my explanations come forth in the most confusing, jumbled way.  I wonder if the other person understands what I'm saying at all.  At other times, I know I can sound quite eloquent and poetic.  I enjoy writing and have the ability to put forth very descriptive and vivid images in my writing - my sentences sometimes sound more like poetry than prose.  Sometimes my sentences trail off at the end when I speak in unfinished thoughts, and at times I find it to be a great effort to have to talk at all, usually when I'm forced to " chit chat" with someone when I'd rather be alone in my own thoughts, like in a work situation or something.

Hi Daria, I know a Mercury in Pisces very well. She does have a Virgo emphasis in her chart though, with Virgo rising and Mercury in 6th.... she also has Gemini MC and Neptune on the cusp of the 3rd.

So she is not jumbled or confused at all, is a very eloquent, communicative and verbally tidy person (she would never trail off or jumble up her explanations - on the contrary she explains things extremely thoroughly and is very patient). She is a fluent chatter with anyone - very witty and entertaining - a very sociable and amiable person and uses her conversational skills to lubricate the wheels of social interactions.

Perhaps her most evident Piscean trait is a tendency to get distracted from the focus of a discussion a little too easily - she's dynamite in meetings!! - but I love her dearly.

I've never known her to write prose or poetry - and I wouldnt say that she uses a lot of vivid imagery in speech or writing - she expresses her creativity in more crafty ways. However she is a huge lover of books and music.

I have Mercury in Libra and I have to say I have learned almost everything that I know from books. BIG bookworm. As far as the style of communication aspect I am usually overly long-winded and use too many long words, if I'm not careful not to. I used to do customer service jobs, and tapped into the diplomatic and helpful side of Libra. But the older I get the more Scorpio I get (I have Pluto, Juno, and the Moon in Libra but Mars, Uranus and the N Node in Scorpio conjunct my 29 & change degree Libra Sun). So now I tend to come off as too intense and spooky!

Hi, I'm new to this forum and I'm only just learning about astrology.
I have Mercury retrograde in Leo placed in the fifth house.
The main thing with this for me, I think, is that I cannot be objective. Even when I try to be objective about something, I find that it is always greatly colored by my sensory and/or emotional experience of it.
When I'm learning something new, it feels like I'm devouring it. My college professors remarked about how completely saturated in a subject I can become. I'm always surprised about the facts and details I can recall, because most of the time, I don't remember having actively tried to learn them. I'm not sure if this is Mercury's influence or something else.

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My Mercury is in Virgo in the 8th House, stationary direct, unaspected by any planets (it only trines the Ascendant), and it is at its critical degree.

My memory is rather way too sharp and keen than I'd like it to be sometimes haha, but it's treating me well so far.  I love to read...I'm rather voracious when it comes to books.  My interests are in philosophy, psychology, and science....basically anything that's "taboo" or requires much depth of understanding. 

I'm also a natural at mathematics.  I can calculate all sorts of numbers in my head, and I never got less than 100 on any math test in my life, all the way up to Calculus III.  I'm a very factual, practical, and logical thinker.  Give me facts, give me data, and I turn into a human computer hahaha.

As for my speaking ability, I've noticed that whenever I give a speech or make a presentation, I tend to captivate my audience and keep them in my grip, so to speak.  I tend to speak very directly and convincingly.  With my Moon in Aries in the 3rd House of Communication and as a singleton planet in my chart forming a "funnel/bucket pattern," I could probably be easily labeled as one of the "Great Communicators."

Oh, and just to throw something else out there, I think about sex A LOT, and I think it has something to do with my Mercury being in the 8th House.  Venus conjunct Mars in Leo (ALSO in the 8th House) just adds a physical dimension to my thoughts.  So basically, I come up with ideas or thoughts and I certainly don't hesitate to act on them. 

Pretty good analysis, don't you think?

I have Mercury in Aquarius, and Mercury is my chart ruler.  I would consider myself a good communicator; most of my friends are young adults rather than my own age.  My only beef with written English is with chatspeak and incorrect spelling, good thing I don't have to worry about that in Italian!

As for learning, I don't usually take notes in class since my mind picks up everything through my ears, but I have to absorb the information and form an opinion about it before I can give a detailed explanation of it back out.  I pick up things rather quickly once someone explains it to me, though.  I can usually figure out how to use a computer program or tool pretty quick by myself, too.  My mind always has to be at work somehow; if I'm not thinking, I get instantly bored.  Pretty much the only time my mind is at rest is when I sleep.

Mercury in Sag in the 8th house. Although i love reading about stuff, i learn by doing. You can show me, but i'm still not going to really get a handle on whatever, until i do it myself.
and to the previous Merc in Sag above, i can really relate to not wanting to be encumbered by too much stuff. I have gotten rid of stuff when I felt I could not take it with me... (i didn't go anywhere, but still had that feeling)

I have Mercury in Pisces and I do write Poetry and love music. I also love the ocean. However, I have Mars and Chiron conjunct Mercury and Pluto is opposing all three, so my mental processes are probably more direct and forceful than a typical person with Mercury in Pisces.

I have a pretty good memory.

hughissuper wrote:

I have Mercury retrograde in Leo placed in the fifth house.
The main thing with this for me, I think, is that I cannot be objective. Even when I try to be objective about something, I find that it is always greatly colored by my sensory and/or emotional experience of it.
When I'm learning something new, it feels like I'm devouring it. My college professors remarked about how completely saturated in a subject I can become. I'm always surprised about the facts and details I can recall, because most of the time, I don't remember having actively tried to learn them. I'm not sure if this is Mercury's influence or something else.

I can second that; I have Mercury in Leo in the 10th, and it is very similar to this description. Voracious appetite for information and perspective, but it's *highly* subjective, and thought and learning for me always comes back to how it relates to myself - my experiences, my feelings, my previous established ideas, my vision/desires, memories, etc. Seeing past myself has always been really challenging to me, and at the shadow end of that I've struggled much with mental illness, solipsism, nihilism, and the like. My Merc is also cazimi to my Sun, conjunct Moon, and sextile Uranus, so I'm sure that probably affects it. How I experience it: it's like having a very sensitive antenna up all the time, that picks up all sorts of signals from who knows where, combined with incoming sense-data, and for my entire life it has taken all that info and fed it into this inner crucible where it gradually coalesces into patterns, and then memories, and the new incoming info is always related back to what is already established. Mentally I feel like I'm at the center of a feedback loop that has taken on a life of its own!

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I think Mercury is strongest in the air signs and because the fire signs are opposite, it's harder for Mercury there. Lack of duality in fire, maybe? I try to get past the lack of objectivity by working really hard to see things from others' points of view, and when I remember to do that, it usually works well, but I often forget and can be very oblivious and off-putting to people. I never intend to be arrogant with my communication - Leo almost always means well unless angered - but it's a humbling lesson to realize that sometimes I come across that way.

Oh, and the other thing I notice about Leo Mercury: the tendency to always think in big-picture terms and generalities. I do it to a fault, to the point where the tiniest little mundane issue becomes a dramatic life-or-death, existential issue of cosmic significance. Ugh, it's so annoying sometimes! OTOH I'm fairly intuitive at getting the jist of something from only a cursory preview of information, and at times I can be fairly sensitive to 'vibes' and nonverbal communication (though other times I don't even notice the subtleties - depends on if I'm tuned in and looking for them or not!)

I have Mercury in Taurus in the 11th house trine Moon in Virgo in the 3rd (in various forms of mutual reception) both in trine to North Node in Capricorn conjunct the Descendant and the contr'antiscia of Saturn. Mercury's also sextile my Cancer Ascendant/Sirius/Moon-Sun Midpoint Conjunction, square Jupiter in the 8th, and quincunx Neptune in the 5th. 

My third house cusp is Virgo of course!  With Moon trining Mercury blah blah blah.  Yeah I'm a nerd.  But I'm an intuitive, empathic nerd who can feel what you're thinking and knows better than to tell you to your face that he knows what you're feeling.  So it ain't so bad.  I live in a joyful non-fearful present buoyed by the wisdom that it's all gonna be all right once we plutonify those darn saturnians.

I have a mercury in Scorpio. Communication is not really for me. I love to talk with people I know and with people I am very close to but not to people whom I am just an acquaintance.  slots

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