Mercury in Libra, Mercury in the 4th 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.

4th House

Keywords: Keywords for the 4th house include home, home life, parents, ancestry, relatives, privacy, birth place, nurturing, self-care, self-love, security, and spiritual initiation. 

Angular House Type: An Angular house type means it is ruled by a cardinal sign. In this case Cancer is the cardinal water sign ruling the 4th house. 

The 4th house in astrology is symbolic of our most private self. It is the part that is the hardest to express, representing things we often keep hidden from others. This house can also be representative of one’s parents, typically one or the other. It can represent what the earliest relationships in one’s life were life and home life environment. The 4th house is representative of one’s relationship with authority, thus the association with a parental figure. 

The areas of life the 4th house oversees include the ways in which you create a home for yourself. It looks at how important having a home base is for you. The 4th house is the security blanket of your natal chart. The sign on the 4th house is symbolic of how you take care of your deepest needs, where you need the most nurturing, support, and comfort. If you have an emphasis of planets in the 4th house in your natal chart this may indicate you tend to be shy or keep things to yourself, only revealing your true self to a select few individuals.