Mercury in Libra, Mercury in the 1st House

Mercury in Libra ♎︎ in the Natal Chart

Mercury in Libra in the natal chart individuals communicate with grace and poise. You desire to get along with others and are generally a nice person all around. There is great skills in discerning and passing a fair judgement. You have the ability to mentally process all sides of situation disseminating information clearly and concisely. 

Individuals with this Mercury placement are typically very capable of processing numbers and playing musical instruments. There is a natural ability to hear and envision the beauty in a musical composition or mathematical configuration. 

You appreciate harmony seeking this out in your communications with others. There is a tendency to get very involved in social media as you have the opportunity to share the more beautiful sides of life through these platforms. How you look, happy moments friends, or celebrations all can be communicated to other’s through photos on social media. Your eye for aesthetics and willingness to share your personal life all contribute to your success through these mediums. 

Libra in Mercury individuals are typically great communicators although avoid conflict so may struggle to communicate their more difficult emotions. You are able to intellectualize your feelings bringing a filtered sense of beauty to everything you do and say.

1st House

Keywords: The keywords associated with the first house are individualism, identity, selfishness, ego, personality, infancy, imitating, starting line, and destiny. 

Angular House Type: An Angular house is ruled by a cardinal sign. Aries is the cardinal fire sign ruling the 1st house. 

The 1st house in astrology is representative of how you express your self identity. The sign on the 1st house in the natal chart symbolizes the energy through which you tend to filter all of your experiences. 

Here you get to know yourself, your basic needs, and desire to be seen as an individual. In the 1st house you are having a “me” experience. This house is symbolic of initiation and impulsivity. 

Planets placed in the 1st house in the natal chart tend to be very heavily emphasized. These planets will be expressed more easily in your personal expression and circumstances. This is the house is symbolic of where we first breath life into ourselves, where existence first begins. This part of the astrological chart is ego driven in the search for self identity. Here you get to perform or act out the person you are or want to be.