What Is Your Mercury Sign?

What does Mercury sign mean?

Mercury is the planet of mind, communication, and perception. Its sign in your birth chart reveals how you think, how you speak, how you learn, and how you process information. Two people with the same Sun sign but different Mercury signs can communicate in entirely different ways: one blunt and direct, the other circuitous and diplomatic.

Because Mercury orbits close to the Sun, your Mercury sign is always within one or two signs of your Sun sign. It moves through each sign in about three weeks on average, though its retrograde periods slow it considerably. Mercury goes retrograde three times per year, which is why it has a particular reputation in popular astrology. Understanding your Mercury sign is one of the clearest ways to understand why you and someone else, despite agreeing on most things, can still manage to thoroughly misunderstand each other.