Mercury in Scorpio in the Ninth House

The placement of Mercury in Scorpio indicates you have a need to function at a deep mental level with authenticity and integrity. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mercury in Scorpio are a result of this need to mentally perceive the truth about yourself and your environment. Mercury is indifferently placed in Scorpio. The positive aspects of the placement are symbolized by the natural sextile between Scorpio and Mercury-ruled Virgo. However, Scorpio is the Fixed Water sign and both fixity and water are problematic for the air and mutable-associated Mercury, as symbolized by the natural quincunx between Scorpio and Mercury-ruled Gemini.

The Fixed Water of Scorpio pulls the mental energies associated with Mercury to deep places, from which escape to the outer world is difficult. In these deep places, the Mercury-associated functions gain power through access to reality and truth. However, Mercury’s air is challenged to adapt to the flow of Scorpio’s water.  The Mercury functions are naturally more comfortable in the realm of the ordinary and the everyday.

Mercury’s placement in Scorpio suggests that there are certain personality characteristics and qualities with which you identify. Typical Mercury-Scorpio qualities are listed below, with positive qualities listed first and their more negative, or dysfunctional, counterparts listed afterward. These qualities are divided into three categories, corresponding to major Mercury-symbolized functions: intellect, communication and the nervous system.

Inseguridades

With Mercury in Scorpio, if you are insecure, your mind is obsessed with being dominated by forces beyond your control. At its extreme, this can turn into a paranoia-like fear. In order to “protect” yourself from being dominated by other people, you constantly search for ways to dominate them. This mental preoccupation with power and control eats away at you and makes you suspicious and fearful.

Mercurio en la Casa 9:

Although the 9th House’s core function, understanding, would seem to be a natural mental activity, Mercury is traditionally in detriment in the 9th House. The mental functions symbolized by Mercury tend to be focused on detail and on specific and separate facts. The mind collects and processes data. It communicates specifics. With such a narrow focus, the mind itself may have a difficult time assembling bits of data into a grand and comprehensive conceptual understanding. The mind must have the capability to pull back from its immediate involvement and contemplate the big picture if it is to successfully handle the demands symbolized by the 9th House.

Having Mercury in the 9th House, if your mind is strong and blessed with positive energy, it will be inclined to explore the world and intellectually form a comprehensive worldview. Still, you may experience some insecurity about whether all of your bases are covered or whether you have collected enough information to see the complete picture when you need to make a judgment. With Mercury in the 9th House, in looking at the larger picture, seeking understanding and expanding your horizons, you may still desire to immerse yourself in the minutiae of the subject and bury yourself with facts. Nevertheless, Mercury’s placement opposite the house it rules offers you the opportunity to develop your mental capabilities in both exact and broad dimensions, to extend your mental grasp and to avail yourself of an intellectually grounded understanding of things.

Inseguridades

As an individual with Mercury in the 9th House, faced with a world that is too complex in its detail to be understood by you, you salvage your ego from complete frustration and humiliation by adopting a defensive position. One such position is to conjure a system in which you can believe without concerning yourself about whether your worldview conforms to reality. Instead, you conform reality to your worldview. This makes you highly opinionated and convinced that your understanding of the world is correct. With Mercury in the 9th House, another defensive response is to simply shut down the intellectual process, concluding that understanding the world is not important. You absorb information, receive impressions and experience the world at a sensory level but you make no attempt to understand it.

Intellect’s Focus

Having Mercury in the 9th House, you seek to comprehend and understand the world from an intellectual perspective. You are likely to spend mental time trying to discover a system through which the world, or some particular aspect or problem, makes sense. You may study philosophy and religion or some other academic pursuit that can supply you with an intellectual paradigm. You may also experience intellectual stimulation through travel or other experiences that broaden your horizons. With Mercury in the 9th House, you are more likely than not, to be liberal-minded and open to more tolerant points of view. You are likely to enjoy exploring new topics. In fact, you may not be satisfied unless engaged in some type of intellectual quest.

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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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