Astrology

Mercury in Capricorn

Mercury represents the way you think, speak and learn. In Capricorn, it expresses itself with method, ambition and the patience to build.

In Capricorn — a cardinal earth sign ruled by Saturn —, Mercury wanders peregrine, and gives a practical and methodical mind, made of an architect: it sees the final result before laying the foundations and builds solid long-term plans. Persistent and efficient, it becomes a recognised master in its field and prospers in business and in numbers. The thinking is serious, structured, and reliable — it weighs, orders, and executes. Being peregrine, it depends on its dispositor, Saturn. The reverse is to resist change, to close itself to spontaneity, and at times to communicate with harshness or arrogance. Its strength is constructive judgement: a Mercury that thinks in order to build, and whose word, slow and weighty, has the weight of one who says only what it can fulfil.

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