Mercury in Pisces in the Eighth House

The placement of Mercury in Pisces indicates you have a need to be able to function mentally in a flexible manner that is not unduly confined by “artificial” boundaries. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mercury in Pisces are a result of this underlying tension and the constant mental struggle and search for definition that you are likely to experience.  There is an inherent tension in Mercury’s placement in Pisces. This tension is symbolized by Pisces’ natural square to Mercury-ruled Gemini and its natural opposition to Virgo, which is also ruled by Mercury. Pisces is the Mutable Water sign.  The dissipating, watery, changing energy associated with Pisces creates a natural difficulty for the structure-based, objective and precise mental and communication functions associated with Mercury.

It is rather difficult for Mercury’s precise and mental energies to navigate the ever-changeable waters of Pisces. Another difficulty is that your intellect is forced to operate within the realm of emotions. If you cannot make peace with this tension and learn to use it to your benefit, the result will often be a frustration for yourself and others, with issues centering on the indefiniteness of your mental and communicative processes. On the other hand, if you can mentally adjust to the  Piscean environment, then this will open up a whole new world of experience for you and your mental and communicative powers will be enhanced by the flexibility,  agility, and unlimitedness that you are free to explore.

Inseguridades

With Mercury in Pisces, if you are insecure, you are likely to feel confused by the utter lack of stable reference points, mentally. Your mind is fearful of taking a stand, knowing that it may be undercut at any time, either because of external change and fluidity or because of internal shifts in your point of view. You are not willing to take that risk.  Instead, you abandon all mental discipline and sink into a state of total relativity.  Constantly shifting your position to suit expediencies, your word cannot be relied upon. Without mental grounding and structure, you perceive the world as chaotic and unordered.

Therefore, your mind is vulnerable to irrational fears growing out of the realization that anything could happen to you at any time. This results in an extreme amount of nervousness, which often compounds your chaotic and confused communication and mental state.

Mercury in the 8th House:

Mercury in the 8th House is a somewhat challenging placement for the planet because of the 8th House’s association with privacy. Even though public communication may be difficult for you, Mercury in the 8th House suggests a variety of strengths. These strengths can be developed once you realize that developing your mental and communication faculties is possible once these are turned in the right direction.

As an individual with Mercury in the 8th House, while you may experience some difficulty with abstract or objective forms of mental activity, you are likely to become adept at cognitively understanding emotions and the motivations of others. Rather than perceiving by deduction, you are more likely to turn your mental attention to those matters where a more intuitive perception is valuable. Generally, with Mercury in the 8th House, you are most comfortable mentally when dealing with private or internal matters.

Having Mercury in the 8th House, although your mind’s intuitive functions may be highly developed, this may not be evident to others because you may not display your mental or communicative aptitudes. You are likely to be interested in things that are secret and enjoy thinking about intimate details. You can be highly observant of nuances and personal details that others may overlook. For this reason, you are often an excellent judge of character and able to predict how people will act and react.

Inseguridades

With Mercury in the 8th House, if you are inwardly insecure you will be terrified of discovering real intimacy and may subconsciously adopt a variety of mechanisms to avoid any awareness of a level of intimacy in which you would lose yourself. One such strategy is to intellectualize the intimate. Sexuality, intimate emotions and relaciones, even death, are reduced to mechanical, mental formulas. Having Mercury in the 8th House, you may like to think about or talk about sexuality and other intimate matters, but you do not really participate in them – you do not really feel intimate.

For the individual with Mercury in the 8th House, another strategy is to prevent the mind from having any meaningful engagement. Your conversation is perfunctory, or you are reluctant to engage in conversation with others, preferring to be alone. Your thoughts are all on the surface. Your mental capacity may appear weak, because it is not exercised.

Having Mercury in the 8th House, a darker defensive strategy involves being mentally focused on the negative side of intimacy. You may have a mental fascination with death or with sexual perversity. You may avoid intimate contact to the extent of becoming anti-social. Your mental fascination with death and destruction, however, generally will not proceed beyond talk.

Enfoque del intelecto

With Mercury in the 8th House, you are likely to focus your intellect on things that are below the surface, on intimate details. You may have the type of mind that cannot rest until you have perceived the source of things and have stripped away all superficialities, completely, to get to the essence of a thing that may lie hidden to others. Besides this tendency, your intellect may contemplate matters of sexuality or life and death. You may also have an intellectual interest in managing others or in power relationships.  As an individual with Mercury in the 8th House, you may be interested in economics from the standpoint of how resources are shared. If you are a lawyer, your area of specialty is likely to be in contracts, wills, divorces and other matters involving the intermingling of resources.

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Artículo referenciado de:

• Gargatholil, Astrología Profunda: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Astrología Profunda: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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