Mercury conjunct Ascendant natal makes you an ideas person who loves to share thoughts and ideas. You are a communicator specializing in one-to-one conversations, but you also enjoy chatting with groups of people.

You are intelligent, elegant, energetic and curious. Your mind is always racing, gathering information and processing it. Your memory is excellent, and you love to take things apart and put them back together again, in your mind and with your hands. This skill would be helpful for a mechanic or watchmaker.

Rationing and reasoning everything at such a fast pace makes you adaptable and variable; however, being constantly on the go mentally and physically strains your nervous system. You can be changeable, fidgety, anxious, jumpy, and easily distracted.

Schooling and education are essential for you, but mental discipline is sometimes needed to stay focused on one thing at a time, rather than being distracted and disruptive. You would excel in any career that involves communication or personal interaction, such as sales, office work, human resources, journalism, and writing.

Fully expressing yourself in relationships is greatly appreciated by loved ones and friends, and this is where you feel most comfortable. Even though you can sometimes be somewhat unemotional, being alone with your highly functioning brain for extended periods would be hard. You also enjoy spending time with people in your neighborhood, as well as with children, siblings, and cousins, for mental stimulation.

Maternus (@335 AD)

Mercury conjunct Ascendant. If the horoscope is found in the borders of Mercury, it will produce literate people, and those who execute the acts entrusted to them with the most faithful duties, learned people always adorned with right judgment, curators or principals of cities in charge of public accounts, rational people and those who always demand fiscal payments with faithful duty. But if Mercury is found in the very parts in which the horoscope is, it will produce astrologers, mathematicians, soothsayers, and those who learn all things future by some means, but always adorned with every duty of virtue, and to whom honor is conferred by men on account of that knowledge.

If Saturn is found in the same borders, it will produce unhappy, bitter, taciturn people, and those who do not always suspend the order of words with a certain moderation of speech, and who keep secrets with faithful silence, slow to progress in all things, hardworking, and who always insinuate a bad reputation to the people. For they will be poisoners, and whose malice approaches every venom of poison, persevering in their anger with perpetual indignation, as long as they have been avenged either by chance or by their own merit, vigilant enough with necessary moderation, and who are accustomed to foretelling all things that are to come, so that both future and present states are intimated to them by manifest revelations through dreams, but who with their counsels approach every attack of rashness.

If Jupiter is found in these parts, he will make physicians skilled in law ***** so that the affairs of the powerful men will depend on their intercession. They will certainly be known to the common people, but they will always be applied to adulteries, so that they will always desire and fulfill adulteries. But at night he will make actors born, others tabloids but glorious and always adorned with a good testimony, so that the grace of this testimony will continue to them until the last day of their lives.

But if Mars is found in these parts, and there is a daytime birth, he will make evil, malicious, malignant people, and those who compete in constant contentions, cruel, reckless, and who are not appeased by any reasons of humanity, clamorous, shameless, outrageous with insane fury, and who reject everything through the fault of satiety, frivolous and who are carried away by all the easiest persuasions, circumscribed executioners <and> who conceive every crime with a nefarious ardor of mind. But if there is a night birth, all these are to some extent mitigated.

But if the Sun is found in these parts, it will make famous nobles, and those who will always be adorned with popular knowledge, and whose nobility will spread throughout the entire city, and whom the people will recognize by their intercession for their defense. They will certainly be those who handle the duties of many acts. But if with the Sun in the limits of Mercury in the horoscope, as we have said, Mercury himself will be found, they will be such as will accomplish everything by reason of right counsel, and who will be preferred by all by the grace of uncorrupted wisdom.

If Venus is found in these parts, it does what we have shown Mercury to do in the parts of Venus. It will make great happy and grateful men, and those who will easily obtain everything, and who will persuade the multitude of everything they want by popular speech, happy. learned worlds, lovers of music, poets, but whose poems are adorned with the splendor of nobility, and to whom the substance of happiness is conferred from foreign cases.

But if the Moon is found in the limits of Mercury [in the horoscope] , and is of diurnal birth, it will produce artisans, but who are preferred to all artisans. But if it is of nocturnal birth, it decrees the offices of all arts, and those who delight in all exercises, ingenious, and those who handle the business of foreign goods, knowing all things, and who are transferred hither and thither by various means, and who despise all pains with a certain dissimulation. [Mathesis, Firmicus Maternus. @335 AD, Book 5, Chapter 2, pp.25-27.]

Mercury Conjunct Ascendant Transit

Mercury conjunct Ascendant transit makes you alert, curious, chatty, and quick-thinking. You will be kept busy with various communications and short trips around town. This is a good time for meetings and socializing with friends, but you will be most comfortable and practical with one-to-one relationships.

Your thinking will be rational and logical; you will hear all the necessary details, read the fine print, and speak clearly and concisely. Understanding your point well is excellent for bargaining, selling, convincing and debating.

Business matters should proceed smoothly; this is an excellent time to finalize contracts. You will breeze through your daily routines and can catch up on and organize your bills, emails, and other tasks.

Boring is not an option because your brain needs stimulation. Without it, you will feel anxious, nervous and jumpy. This is a good time for reading, writing, studying, exams, editing, and sharing your thoughts and ideas. This is a perfect time to interact with friends, neighbors, coworkers, siblings, cousins, and children.

Mercury Conjunct Ascendant Celebrities

Paul Newman 0°06′, Edna St. Vincent Millay 0°18′, Gustave Courbet 0°22′, Barron Trump 0°31′, John Gotch 0°31′, Niall Horan 0°32′, Jimmy Hoffa 0°33′, Elon Musk 0°34′, Andrea Bocelli 0°35′, Tom Waits 0°38′, Matt Dillon 0°39′, T. S. Eliot 0°52′, Arnold Schwarzenegger 1°05′, Michael Hutchence 1°09′, Melanie 1°09′, Katy Perry 1°12′, Divine 1°14′, Michael Richards 1°21′, Corey Feldman 1°23′, David Beckham 1°37′, Adam Ant 1°55′.