Mercury in Gemini in the Fifth House

The placement of Mercury in Gemini indicates you have a need for an active and stimulating mental environment and abundant opportunities to communicate. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mercury in Gemini are a result of the very active operation of those functions symbolized by Mercury. Mercury is well placed in Gemini, since Mercury rules Gemini.  Thus, those functions associated with Mercury have a particularly strong affinity for Gemini’s energy and the attunement of those functions to Gemini’s vibration strengthens and empowers them.

Gemini is the Mutable Air sign. Gemini’s changeable air is the perfect medium within which the Mercury-associated functions can work. The flexible, changing air element offers little resistance and its “wind” allows the mind to quickly move anywhere it likes. Thus, the functions associated with Mercury are “all over the place.” If there is a drawback to the Gemini placement of Mercury it is the potential for too much mental energy operating too freely and without enough grounding.

Inseguridades

As an individual with Mercury in Gemini, if you are insecure, you are never really certain of the knowledge you have acquired. You do not rest long enough to acquire a thorough knowledge of a thing.  Partly this is because your ego subconsciously knows that keeping the mind perpetually moving from one thing to another and never letting it rest is one of the best ways to guarantee that the illusion of ego will be maintained. You, therefore, often try to dazzle others with volume and speed in your attempt to hide the superficiality of your knowledge and understanding.

Mercurio en la Casa 5:

The placement of Mercury in the 5th House suggests the energy of a Mercury-Sun contact. Generally, your mental and communication functions are enlivened and energized in the 5th House. They are directed toward expressing your personality and your creativity and showing this to others.

To do this, you must think about your persona and talents. Thus, you have an opportunity to consciously formulate (or modify) your personality traits or to develop your creative potential. Mercury in the 5th House may also signify that your positive attributes and creative energies are chiefly intellectual or involve communication skills. Even if you are expressive and creative in non-mental ways, you will probably apply thought to the organization of these functions.

Having Mercury in the 5th House, you are also predisposed to apply your intellect to things having to do with.  You are apt to engage in mental play, too, meaning that you are likely to express your mental energies in a playful, rather than a rigid or overly serious manner. Secondly, you are likely to have a drive to communicate to others in a way which is self-expressive and displays your creativity.

As an individual with Mercury in the 5th House, your communication style is likely to be lively and even playful. There may be much talk about things that involve creativity. However, you should guard against a tendency to use communication as a forum to focus attention on yourself (directly or through your children).

Inseguridades

With Mercury in the 5th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will not develop a clear and positive picture of your personality and, therefore, you will feel compelled to constantly mentally project your persona in order to gain attention and validation. For the individual with Mercury in the 5th House, this often takes the form of incessantly talking about yourself and your interests. At the very worst it degenerates into boasting about your accomplishments and talents, or those of your children. Another manifestation of your insecurity is for you to become fixated mentally. You constantly think about creative endeavors, about doing things, but you never get beyond the thinking (or talking) stage.

Intellect’s Focus

Having Mercury in the 5th House, your mind is turned to creative pursuits and modes of self-expression. You may possess qualities of intellectual spontaneity and you may have a prolific intellect. Your mental processes are likely to provide you with enjoyment and even entertainment. Yet, there will be a tendency for your intellect to be concerned more with the persona than with the social or universal. Your mind is likely to be a key component of your personality. You may also be mentally absorbed in children or in things related to childhood.

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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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