Mercury in Cancer in the Ninth House

The placement of Mercury in Cancer indicates you have a need for those functions symbolized by Mercury to operate on the emotional level. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mercury in Cancer are a result of the basic emotionality of the mental functions. Mercury is generally challenged somewhat by its placement in Cancer. However, as symbolized by the natural sextile between Cancer and Mercury-ruled Virgo, there are very positive aspects of this placement that can be realized.

Cancer is the Cardinal Water sign. Most of the time, the active watery nature of Cancer symbolically drowns and dampens the changeable airy nature of Mercury, forcing the Mercury-associated functions to act through an unaccustomed element. This can produce a major amount of stress if the mental functions do not adapt to the emotional energy field represented by Cancer. However, if there is attunement, then the combination can become very powerful and positive, as you now have become “bi-lingual” as it were, able to unite and balance the Yin of the mental with the Yang of the emotional.

Onzekerheden

Having Mercury in Cancer, if you are insecure as a person, you are likely to feel unsure of your mental nature and, because of this, you reject the emotional attunement toward which your mental state leans. Your intellect feels overwhelmed with irrationality and you cannot deal with this. The ego subconsciously perceives its vulnerability in allowing the mind to function in a state in which the “irrational” (i.e., the ego’s perception of the unconscious Reality) may break through and threaten the integrity of the ego. Your response to this mental confusion is to withdraw mentally from active engagement. However, because you cannot escape the nature of your mental functions, you tend to communicate in an emotionally reactive manner whenever you are mentally confronted with “the irrational.”

Mercury in the 9th House:

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.

Onzekerheden

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.

Intellectuele 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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