Mercury in Leo

With Mercury in Leo you're refined, dignified, and very creative, but need to be more objective in your thinking. It's important to develop a wider and less self-centered way of looking at things. You're ambitious, dynamic, dramatic and emotional with your ideas and opinions, but if Mercury is afflicted, may be fixed and opinionated as well. You tend to be outgoing in speech and manner, and express strong views that are hard to influence or change.

These distinguished individuals have Mercury in Leo (and also in the first house for emphasis): Barbara Bach, Karen Black, Jorge Luis Borges, Yul Brynner, George W. Bush, Georges Cuvier, Zelda Fitzgerald, Garibaldi, Merv Griffin, Alex Haley, Leona Helmsley, Norman Schwarzkopf, and George Wallace.

Mercury is the innermost planet in the solar system, never getting more than 28 degrees from the Sun. Astrologically, it is always found in the same or an adjacent sign to the Sun. Astronomically speaking, Mercury is so close to the Sun that it can only occasionally be glimpsed in the twilight or dawn sky just before or after the Sun or the horizon has swallowed it up.

This Mercury-in-Leo page and, in fact, the entire website are excerpted from You and the Universe, a handmade, individualized fine art book on astrology, mythology and astronomy through which the recipient's complete astrological reading is woven.