Mercury in Pisces, Mercury in the 5th House

Mercury in Pisces ♓︎ in the Natal Chart

If you have Mercury in Pisces in your natal chart than you will have a dreamlike and fanciful way of communicating. There is a tendency to get lost in your thoughts. At times other people may have trouble understanding you due to your round about way of expressing yourself. You often feel that you have made your point very clearly so communication can be quite a confusing game for you. 

Mercury in Pisces gives you the ability to day dream like no other. You have a rich imagination and can transport yourself to seemingly other worlds simply by entering into this creative mind space. This placement is very poetic and lends an artistic nature to your thought process. The Mercury in Pisces individual will be able to sympathize with others and often can communicate with animals on an unseen level. 

You tend to have a romantic mind set choosing to see the good in a situation when you can. There will be an attraction to reading fanciful literature, Shakespeare, and the like. Mercury in Pisces is able to communicate spiritual aspects of life that others may have trouble articulating. You will often decide to keep your thoughts to yourself contributing to your rich internal life. When you do choose to speak other people listen intently. 

5th House

Keywords: The keywords associated with the 5th house include love affairs, romance, sex, sexuality, creativity, art, dating, play, playfulness, children, spontaneity, fun, diversity, and the spotlight. 

Succedent House Type: The Succedent house type is ruled by a fixed sign. Leo is the fixed fire sign ruling the 5th house. 

The 5th house in astrology is symbolic of creativity, sexuality, and children. The reason all of these themes come together in the 5th house is due to the fact that they all of them are related to making or creating something outside of oneself. Creativity brings forth something new and imaginative. Your relationship to sexuality or how you express your sexuality can be a creative act or viewed as the reproductive act that creates babies. 

Having an emphasis of planets or lack of planets in the 5th house speaks more to what you make and create in life and less literally to how many children you will or will not have. When you are playing in the 5th house it is all about finding your creative spark, what enlivens you, and how you can bring your true identity forward. 

The focus of the 5th house is what unique experience do you want to share with others, what makes you special. The 5th house is also associated with affairs, flings, and romance due to the playful and often spontaneous nature of this area of the chart.