Your Mercury Sign

Why you text like that

Mercury is the planet of thinking, talking, writing, processing, analyzing, overthinking, interrupting, texting, Googling, and deciding whether to send that risky message or just sit on it forever.

It rules your mind and mouth—how you gather information, how you communicate it, and what kind of conversation makes you come alive. It’s not about deep feelings or soul purpose. It’s about the feed. The chatter. The brain noise. The signal-to-noise ratio of your inner dialogue.

Mercury shows how you learn, speak, listen, and respond when someone says, “I just feel like you’re not hearing me.” Spoiler: you probably are—just in your own weird, specific, sign-flavored way.

MERCURY PLACEMENTS

The sign of your Mercury shows your thinking and communication style. The house shows where you naturally seek and share information.

Mercury in Aries? You interrupt. You decide fast. You think out loud and get annoyed when people talk in circles.

Mercury in Virgo? Your brain is a filing cabinet and you hate when someone tries to hand you a crumpled receipt. You want everything to make sense.

Mercury in Sagittarius? You love a hot take. A long-winded one. Bonus points if it includes philosophy, pop culture, and at least one mispronounced word.

Mercury in the First House? You talk a lot, or at least think a lot, and people definitely notice. Communication is part of your identity.

Mercury in the Twelfth? You have a rich internal monologue and probably think in poems or vibes. You may be hard to read, but your dreams are vivid and your thoughts run deep.

Some people think fast. Some people speak fast. Some people do both and exhaust everyone around them. That’s Mercury.

MERCURY SHOWS UP WHEN YOU

  • Overexplain your decision-making process to someone who did not ask

  • Catch a typo in a tweet and delete it even though it already has 13 likes

  • Change your opinion mid-sentence but keep talking like you didn’t

  • Send a follow-up text that says “what I meant was…”

  • Feel energized after a good conversation—and fried after a bad one

  • Have lots of thoughts and it doesn’t occur to you to say a single one aloud

MERCURY GOVERNS

  • Your thinking and communication style

  • How you make decisions

  • What you’re curious about—and how you get your info

  • The way you listen (or pretend to)

  • Your texting, emailing, journaling, and rambling habits

DO PEOPLE SEE YOUR MERCURY? ONLY IF THEY TALK TO YOU.

Mercury isn’t loud unless you are—but because it’s all about how you connect with people, they can’t miss it. In your tone. Your sentence structure. Your typos. Your tangents. Your metaphors that somehow work. Your penchant for silence and solitude.

Mercury is the flavor of your thoughts. If your brain had a podcast, this is who’s hosting.

KEY TAKEAWAY

Mercury doesn’t care if your thoughts are deep. It cares if they move. It’s not here to make you wise—it’s here to make you clear, curious, and a little bit clever.

Even if that cleverness mostly shows up in the Notes app at 1 a.m.

Want to know more?

If you know your Mercury sign but not sure what it says about you, my Birth Chart Placement Index is exactly what you need.