What Your Mercury Sign Represents And How To Find Out What It Is

First off, when it comes to Mercury in your natal chart, it’s not as bad as what we think of when we think of Mercury retrograde. “In the birth chart, Mercury represents the way you recognize patterns, absorb and process information, and exchange ideas and information with others,” Narayana Montúfar, a certified astrologer and the senior astrologer for Horoscope and Astrocenter, told Women’s Health. “Mercury dictates how you think, how you write, and talk to yourself and others.” You might have already heard that Mercury involves how you communicate, and that’s exactly it. And because of this, when someone meets you or chats with you for the first time, they’re encountering your Mercury sign, not your sun or rising (aka what some people call your “mask” to the world, although that’s been disputed).

Of course, that means something different for everyone because of the 12 different Mercury signs. Just like you can have a Libra sun, you can have a Libra Mercury. And, actually, as New York Post wrote, the possibilities of your Mercury being the same as your sun are high just because of how close Mercury is to the sun. It could either be the same sign or whatever sign comes right before or right after your sun sign in the natal chart.