Mercury in Aries in the Eighth House

The placement of Mercury in Ariete indicates you have a need for mental self-assurance. Very often, the tentative mental apparatus that you possess needs to be reinforced by a heavy dose of assertiveness. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mercury in Aries are a result of this need to be mentally confident. Being able to turn your thoughts and words into action may also provide self-confidence.

Mercury is generally well-placed in Aries. Aries is the Cardinal Fire sign. The active fiery nature of Aries symbolically harmonizes well with the quick and airy nature of Mercury. Thus, the Mercury-associated functions are stimulated and activated. There is a danger, however, that Mercury’s mental energy could be overwhelmed by Aries’ need to act, resulting in mental impulsiveness and lack of self-control. This danger is symbolized by the natural quincunx between Aries and Mercury-ruled Virgo.

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With Mercury in Aries, mental insecurity stems from a subconscious realization that the mind is treading on new and uncharted round. It must keep up its confidence despite its lack of experience. This need to keep from giving into insecurity and maintain self-assertion often leads to mental bravado or recklessness, as the ego needs to prove itself. This mental insecurity can also manifest in your having such a need to prove yourself mentally that you are overly aggressive and argumentative.

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.

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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 relazioni, 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.

Intellect’s Focus

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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