Composite Mercury in the 1st house

You both communicate and connect intellectually based on your outward interests.

You’re eager to share your ideas and support each other’s ambitions. You’re also quite vocal about your ideas, easily sharing your thoughts with each other. The two of you may also be chatty in this relationship, never running out of things to talk to each other about.

Communication is open and direct between the two of you. You can easily stimulate each other’s minds.

You can help each other openly express your ideas and opinions and can succeed in your personal ambitions with each other’s help.

Composite Mercury in the 2nd house

You are both likely to stimulate each other’s minds and connect intellectually because of shared values.

Your ideas can help each other thrive financially as you inspire each other to think up new ways to draw income. You can easily help each other think through your own boundaries and find ways to further value your own ideas and vision.

This relationship helps you both communication your needs and express your desires for comfort and security. You can help each other talk openly about your desires and values and can nurture each other’s ideas.

Through this relationship you can help each other find the inspiration and encouragement you need to create abundance and comfort each other.

Composite Mercury in the 3rd house

You both connect with each other by sharing your intellectual interests.

This relationship is mentally stimulating, helping you both to express your ideas. You both easily brainstorm together. You can help each other discover new opportunities because you are both talkative, creative and expressive.

You’re easily able to get along with each other and can inspire each other’s social network. Through this relationship you are likely to teach each other to appreciate new interests and hobbies. You may help each other explore different languages and stimulate each other’s ideas and creativity.

You’re also both able to help each other adapt to changing circumstances and shift your perspectives to remain flexible and open to new plans. Communication is central to this relationship.

Composite Mercury in the 4th house

You are both easily able to communicate with each other about what makes you feel secure and comfortable.

This relationship is not particularly openly expressive; however, you can become more open and communicative with each other when you both feel you’re in the privacy of your own home. You may both think primarily of home and family and can help stimulate ideas and creativity related to managing a shared household.

Your shared ideas and discussions can help each other become more flexible about your views of home and family.

This relationship can help you both process ideas and inspire each other’s intellectual creativity when it comes to caring for each other and managing household and family matters.

Composite Mercury in the 5th house

You connect to each other’s intellectual interests when it comes to matters of fun and frivolity.

You are both easily able to communicate with each other in flirty ways. Your amorous and creative nature comes out through your communication and planning of shared projects.

You are also likely to communicate with each other in optimistic and cheerful ways. You both easily express your enthusiasm for each other’s strengths and talents.

This relationship can help you both express your ideals, and you may enjoy friendly debate as long as you are both careful to avoid making personal attacks on each other’s identity or ego.

Composite Mercury in the 6th house

You both have a keen eye for details, and you easily communicate with each other about daily tasks and routines.

Through this relationship you can both easily show your intellectual connection when it comes to your interests in healthy lifestyle choices, diet, and nutrition. You may also both have an intellectual connection based on your shared love of books.

You can help to inspire each other’s plans and communication related to organizing. You both enjoy serving others and can help each other find practical solutions to problems by thinking through the small details.

Composite Mercury in the 7th house

You are both easily able to connect with each other on an intellectual level when it comes to creating harmony and balance in your relationship.

You speak to each other in diplomatic ways and may easily empathize with each other, though you both prefer to express your empathy in intellectual and diplomatic ways rather than becoming emotional.

You are both mindful of sharing space and you try to keep a balance in your communication style so you can help each other to share ideas and opinions. You may try to always keep a level tone in conversation with each other.

Both of you try to avoid going to extremes in thinking or in conversation. You may also avoid conflict by trying to find topics you both easily agree on.

Composite Mercury in the 8th house

You both focus on intellectual conversations about the occult, shared resources and your interests in wealth and spirituality.

You are both able to influence each other and can choose your words carefully, often appealing to each other’s subconscious desires and intuitive instincts. You can also both help empower each other with your communication style. You are both interested in showing power through your words.

If you are not careful, you can both become distracted by seeking power over each other through misuse of communication. You may both be tempted to resort to power plays and manipulation in order to dominate each other’s ideas.

It’s important for you to both work on helping to empower each other rather than trying to dominate each other’s thinking.

Composite Mercury in the 9th house

You are both likely to align with each other when it comes to your intellectual interests in philosophy and spirituality.

You can help each other broaden your understanding of morality, religion, spirituality and humanitarian topics. You easily connect with each other when sharing your beliefs and opinions. You may both be strong willed and passionate when it comes to sharing your ideas.

You’re independent thinkers but you can also inspire each other to show your diplomatic and intellectual side. You help each other become more open minded and can create a greater understanding of new perspectives.

You may also easily feel like your role is to help teach each other new things.

Composite Mercury in the 10th house

You help each other connect intellectually around topics related to career and public affairs.

You may both have an interest in business and politics, and you help to encourage each other to advance in your career paths. This relationship can also help you both become more planful and communicative about your career path.

You both enjoy talking about current events and can stimulate each other’s minds and encourage each other to advance on your professional path.

You understand how to collaborate and communicate about your shared professional goals and desires for security.

Composite Mercury in the 11th house

You are easily able to connect intellectually when it comes to exploring new technologies and innovative new ideas.

You may also communicate with each other in a friendly and accepting way. You are likely to stimulate each other’s minds and help each other become excited about your shared interests in groundbreaking technology, current events, culture, media and even taboo topics.

You can have a shocking and direct style of communicating with each other. This relationship can help you both stimulate each other’s ideas and plans when it comes to creating change and breaking with tradition.

This can be an ideal relationship for networking as you both easily expand each other’s minds and help each other break with conventional expectations.

Composite Mercury in the 12th house

You stimulate each other’s interests in spirituality, healing and the arts.

Your communication style tends to be more symbolic than intellectual. You may have an intense psychic connection to each other. You can also help each other express your subconscious emotions as well as clearing and purging old wounds.

Through your communication style you may find it easier to connect with each other through symbols, the arts, and images rather than through conventional kinds of discussions. You may also feel like you’re reading each other’s minds.

But you can help each other express your ideals and desires if you are patient with each other. You’ll both have to be careful to avoid illusions and projecting your wounds onto each other.

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