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 conversation but still like 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, not chatter and be otherwise disruptive. You would do well 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 very much appreciated by loved ones and friends, and this is where you are 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 like hanging around with people in your neighborhood and with children, siblings, and cousins for mental stimulation.

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 go well; this is an excellent time to sign contracts. You will breeze through daily routines and can catch up and organize your bills, emails, and mess.

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, studies, 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′, Andrea Bocelli 0°35′, John Gotch 0°31′, Niall Horan 0°32′, Jimmy Hoffa 0°33′, Elon Musk 0°34′, 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′.