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TENTH
HOUSE MERCURY
The
House of Public Standing - The field of worldly attainment
What
the world remembers a person for. Positions of authority, honor, and prestige.
Fame. Profession or career. The father. Affairs of state. Large-scale organizations.
This
placement predisposes to a career connected with writing and communication. It
affords the manual dexterity to do well in a specialty that involves working
with the hands - perhaps on a typewriter or keyboard.
Critical
analysis and the ability to discriminate between alternatives are key factors
in the achievement of professional prestige.
Several
occupations or successive changes of position keep the mind active and alert.
They can turn from one job to another for mental refreshment, and often find
that a variety of talents can be combined to advantage.
It
is very likely that there will be many changes of career. If no career is
followed, there will be changes of direction in life with regard to the
aspirations and objectives. All these matters will be given much thought and
planning because progress will often become a pre-occupation.
If
the Mercury sign is sympathetic to this house placing, the individual will be
able to carry responsibility, but awareness of it will be present whatever the
sign.
For
the career to have an overall shape there should be as much variety in the
daily work as possible. If a good mix of intellectual stimulation,
responsibility and mobility can be achieved, then so much the better, since
the chances are that boredom leading to restless-ness can hamper long-term
progress.
There
are connections between this house and the father. On one level, perhaps, the
individual will think and plan in a style reminiscent of their father; on a
deeper psychological level the "father" can be an inner voice
representing authority, saying what the subject should or shouldn't do.
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