Mercury in Libra

With Mercury in Libra you have a balanced mind and a need to have fine judgment in relationships. You appreciate art and the finer things in life, but have a tendency towards perfectionism and fussiness. You're considerate, helpful, courteous, equal minded, easy to talk with, and a good mediator or negotiator.

Celebrities who have Mercury in Libra (and also in the first house for emphasis) are Jean-Louis Barrault, Silvio Berlusconi, David Copperfield, Alain Delon, Leonardo DiCaprio, T. S. Eliot, Lola Falana, Peter Lawford, Francois Mitterand, Arnold Palmer, and Barbara Walters.

Mercury is neither masculine nor feminine but neutral: it is silver, reflecting all that it contacts. Mercury in Libra is therefore similar in energy to Venus conjunct Mercury (not an uncommon aspect since Mercury and Venus are never more than 76 degrees apart), where the harmonizing and balancing energy of Venus soothes, beautifies, and adds an esthetic vibration to one's speech, thought and communication. The more aspects you have to Mercury in your chart, the greater and more complex your consciousness. The reflective mind needs aspects for its expansion, and the closest aspect is the most important. In the physical body it rules the nervous system, the arms, hands and shoulders, the lungs and the respiratory tract. Its position by house in your chart is where your mind or attention is focused.

This Mercury-in-Libra 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.