Mercury Darakaraka in Astrology

Mercury indicates a very talkative, friendly and Fun Loving Spouse. Mercury is the Planet of Youthful energy. So Darakaraka Mercury will make your Spouse very Energetic and enthusiastic.

Mercury Darakaraka in Astrology

Role of Mercury in our life starts from a very early age. It governs the most important aspects of a person’s life: speech, nature, logic, grasping power, relationships, and is the most important planet (after Moon) in the overall personality of a person. Mercury is a planet that finally supplements the benefits of Jupiter in the later part of a person’s life.

Forget about the astrologers say or what planets say. Just check if you or any of your nears and dears have the following traits:

1. One faces arguments in all relationships: be it personal life or professional.
2. One has a conflicting nature always.
3. Your speech is enough to spoil everything.
4. Nature to argue in all personal and professional relationships.
5. Decision-making power is weak.
6. Sentiments are different from logical thinking.
7. The tendency of job hopping or tendency to work from home.
8. Instability in Career for a long time.
9. The person has excellent trading skills but with a tendency to cheat/get into malpractices.
10. Facing disturbances in foreign education.
11. Sense of fear or emotional drive.
12. Faulty human and social values.
13. Does the person gets attracted to the opposite gender?
14. Illicit relationships with females.
15. Multi-tasking nature with perfection in none of the single work.
16. Speech issue with child.
17. The child is multi talented and
18. Many such characteristics to count. These are some of the traits indicating role of Mercury in our life. All these characteristics emerge from the placement of Mercury in different houses in a birth chart. So, now let us briefly explain Mercury’s role in different houses.

Role of Mercury in astrology

The role of Mercury in astrology is different at the different ages of a person. Because the importance of the signification of Mercury, as explained above, keeps changing with the age. To understand role of Mercury in astrology, one has to understand importance/role of Mercury in different houses in a birth chart.

Mercury in 2nd house Mercury in the 3rd house Mercury in the 4th house Mercury in the 5th house

The 5th house of the horoscope represents child birth, entertainment, sports, love affairs, creative skills, intelligence, higher education, and speculation business, etc. This is also the house of Purva Punya i.e., merits of the past lives.

1. Mercury in the 5th house gives highly impressive communication and intellectual skills to the native. The native gets a good education, high intellect, writing, and poetic expressions here.
2. Mercury in the 5th house in different signs gives the following career options-

Mercury in the 8th house In Astrology, the eighth house represents sudden events, surgeries, longevity, and death. This house shows the money of others, the wealth of spouse, and inheritance. This house shows property from the in-laws. This house also helps to know whether any fear and emotions drive the person.

1. Mercury in the 8th house makes the native influential in speech. The person has good longevity, wealth, inherits property, and has spiritual inclinations.
2. Mercury in the 8th house gives deep thinking and serious analytical powers to the native. This is an excellent placement for becoming an Astrologer.
3. Afflicted Mercury in the 8th house may make the native deceive others and has secret or hidden sexual desires.
4. Afflicted Mercury in the 8th house may affect the longevity of the native. He has to suffer from mental disorders, skin, and other problems, especially in the genitals.
5. Mercury in 8th gives success in the field of taxation, financial consulting, insurance, and research.

Mercury in the 10th house The 10th house is a house of profession, social reputation, image, political concerns, and ambitions of the native. It reflects the kind of profession a person will indulge in.

1. Mercury in the 10th house gives a career related to the significations of Mercury as explained above. More inclinations towards the activities involving intellect, speaking and writing skills are seen.
2. There may be multiple fields of a career as well. The person is well versant in many life skills.
3. If Mercury in the 10th house happens to fall in its exaltation, it creates Bhadra raj yoga here bringing all round success to the person.
4. Afflicted Mercury in the 10th house gives instability in the career, and the natives spoil their career due to negligence and careless attitude.
5. Mercury in the 10th house makes the native travel a lot, mostly for his profession.

Mercury in the 12th house The 12th house represents the end of everything. It is the house of expenses, losses, hidden enemies, mysterious places, salvation, subconscious mind, foreign settlement, etc. This house deals with higher realms of life. Mercury in the 12th house makes the native search for the truth of life. The native can establish subconscious connections with supernatural powers here. Mercury in the 12th house makes the person highly imaginative, and they have excellent communication skills and choose their words wisely. Afflicted Mercury in the 12th house may give insanity and defects in speech. The person may be sent to imprisonment or get hospitalized for committing a crime or for mental imbalance. Mercury in the 12th house gives higher learning in deep subjects like occult, religion, and spirituality.

How to improve mercury in birth chart can be a natural question in mind after reading the above article. For this, first of all one should check the actual placement of Mercury in horoscope. The best remedy to improve weak Mercury can be: chant Budh Mantra, pray to Lord Ganesha, meditate and control your speech. These remedies for Mercury can either help you or at least will not do any harm. Many times you are told to donate for Mercury, wear emerald, feed animals, wear green cloths and many generalized remedies like this. But just understand one thing: may be Mercury is already weak/debilitated and you start donating for Mercury. So, you are pushing it further away from you. Or your Mercury is already exalted and you wear Emerald. What good it will do if Mercury is already in good position. You wear gemstones for weak planets and strong/exalted ones. If you are feeling any traits as explained in this article, consult an astrologer, ask him the exact position of Mercury and then follow the right remedy to improve Mercury.

When you have Mercury as your Darakaraka, it can make your Partner very Fickle minded. He/She will not make commitment easily. They will always try to experiment something new. This tendency of Something New can Sometime drag them to relationship Outside Marriage also. When Jupiter aspects the Mercury, this tendency is controlled Largely.

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