Mercury in the 5th house
Mercury in the 5th house plays with ideas. Witty, inventive and a natural storyteller, you think best when you are having fun, and words are one of your favourite toys.
You have been told you should do stand-up, at least once, by a friend who meant it.
You were born with Mercury, the planet of thinking and talking, in your fifth house: the house of play, romance, children and creative work. Your mind is happiest when it is enjoying itself.
The storyteller
You tell a story so that people lean in. Jokes, puns, games, improvised songs, the perfect caption: words are how you play. Writing, performing or any work that lets your wit show suits you, and so does teaching children, who can tell you are having as much fun as they are.
Flirting with words
In love, conversation is half the attraction. You fall for a quick mind and a good line, and you court people with notes, messages and banter. A partner who cannot keep up with you in conversation will not keep you for long.
Clever over kind
The risk is a joke that cuts. When you are performing, you can say the funny thing instead of the true one, and some people will not tell you it hurt.
Save the clever line for the people who would laugh at it too.
The life of the table
People remember the evenings with you as the ones where they laughed until their faces hurt.
Were you born with Mercury in the 5th house?
The houses are drawn from the horizon at the minute and the place you were born, and the whole wheel of them turns once a day, so the house a planet stands in depends on your birth time. Two people born on the same day can have Mercury in different houses.
Your chart, below, places Mercury in its house and every other planet in theirs.
Find your own Mercury
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and every planet in its sign and house, Mercury among them.