Mercury conjunct Midheaven natal gives a piercing intellect and communication skills well above average. You see everything and see it very clearly. You are generally unbiased and enjoy sharing your perspective on the world. Making sense of complex ideas and communicating them in an educational or entertaining style is a significant part of your role in life. You should also like socializing; the more interaction you have with others, the better.

You can become restless or anxious when you have nothing to do, so you always seek mental stimulation and exciting experiences. A tendency to become easily distracted could mean difficulty focusing on one subject at a time. However, the Internet suits your learning and research style, and you can quickly find the information you need. Perhaps you should bookmark the pages where you start so you can return to your original line of questioning.

When communicating with others, using your heart and your head is essential. You have the potential to become overly intellectual and less intimate unless you have a well-placed Moon or Venus.

Your superior communication skills and quick wit will help you advance your career. You would excel in the media and entertainment industries, from newsreader to journalist or comedian. Other roles specific to Mercury include business, commerce, economics, primary and secondary education, transport, administration, secretarial or clerical work, analytics, cashier, taxation, negotiation, promotions, telephone sales, and general sales.

Mercury Conjunct Midheaven Transit

Mercury conjunct Midheaven transit focuses your attention on your career, social life, and public profile. You may receive important news about these areas of your life or have something important to announce or discuss. Group discussions or public comments may affect your reputation. Your name could appear in the media, including print, TV, radio, or social media.

Expect to be kept busy with extra correspondence, meetings, and short trips around town. You can count on good communication skills and quick reflexes to keep you from becoming overwhelmed or stressed by all the mental activity. You should have acute perception and clear thinking, which is ideal for processing large amounts of information and making sense of everything. So this should be an excellent time to think about your future, make plans, discuss them, adjust them, and share them.

Mercury culminating is favorable for starting negotiations, giving presentations at work or in public, announcing your intentions to many people or a superior or parent, writing, emailing, calling, advertising, applying for jobs, and seeking promotion.

This Direction fortunates the Native in dispatching of his generall Business, gives Preferment and Honour by Learning, Writing, Numbers, Accompts, Astronomy, Astrology, Geomitry, causeth the Native to behighly esteemed for his Industry and Winsome; and it portends no small advance of the Native’s Patrimony and Fortune; the Direction renders the Ntive active, full of Businesse, dealing for himselfe and others; but as Mercury is mutable, so many times this Direction doth as suddenly by some scandal, lye or misinformation, deject the Native, and discredit him: Many times upon this Direction, Youths come to be Apprentices, or a Master first sets up his Trade, or a Scholler takes his Degrees. [Christian Astrology, William Lilly, 1647, p.674.]

Mercury Conjunct Midheaven Celebrities

Robin William 0°08′, Lance Reventlow 0°10′, Charles Cullen 0°20′, Nathalie Van Parys 0°24′, David Duke 0°30′, Edmond Haley 0°31′, Garry Shandling 0°33′, Christian Doppler 0°46′, Meg Ryan 0°47′, Henry Winkler 0°47′, Melissa Auf der Maur 0°49′, Harold Wilson 0°51′, Yannick Noah 0°59′, Nick Lachey 1°01′, Agnetha Fältskog 1°10′, Xiao Qian (1910) 1°16′, Courtney Love 1°24′, Miranda Kerr 1°27′, Billie Eilish 1°32′, MacGregor Mathers 1°41′, Nancy Reagan 1°43′, Franz Schubert 1°51′.