Mercury in the 7th House

The Seventh House is the house of partnership. Referred to as the marriage box by some astrologers, this house concerns itself with one-on-one dynamics; romantic, business, and even adversarial couplings fall within its proverbial walls. Those with natal planets in the Seventh House tend to be very focused on relationships, gravitating towards partnership in all areas of life.

Your relationships tend to gravitate toward people who are intelligent, thought-provoking, witty, and learned. You desire your spouse or business partner to be sharp, curious, clever, and alert. You need to communicate and exchange ideas and information with your partner. Promotion of ideas to and from others appeals to you, and you are always up for a good debate, discussion, or argument.

You may spend much time thinking about your relationship or relationships in general, and marriage may often be on your mind. You are looking for a marriage or business partner who challenges you mentally and helps you function on more of an intellectual level. Their value is enhanced if they help you better adapt and more effectively communicate with others. The person who gives you a lively flow of ideas, ideas that challenge and test your own mental processes, one who brings out your best mentally, stimulates you in a way that others may not understand. Yet that is what you seek in a partner.

Your partner may be quick-witted, fluent, volatile, restless, high-strung, as well as outspoken, argumentative, wordy, and critical. Nervousness or mental imbalance may be present. Your partner may possibly be connected with education, writing, traveling, sales, language interpretation, or clerical, secretarial, typing or computer work.

In order to achieve the most positive results from any partnership, you should learn to control your argumentativeness and your desire to criticize.