Planets in signs and houses
Mercury in the 5th House
Tropical zodiac, Western astrology
Mercury in the 5th house makes your thinking playful and fun. You have a sense of humour and enjoy games, puzzles, writing, storytelling and flirting with words that make people smile. Love for you starts with a conversation that clicks. You may be gifted at teaching or talking with children. The risk is joking so much that you never say what you actually feel. Use your way with words to say what is in your heart now and then, and relationships deepen without losing their fun.
Mercury in a birth chart
Mercury is the planet of mind and message. It describes how you gather information, think things through, speak and write, and how you learn. In myth it is the messenger who moves between worlds, and in a chart it shows how you connect ideas and people.
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"Positions": each point with its degree, sign and house. A red R in the R column marks retrograde. The angles, including Descendant and IC, are listed too.