Planet in sign · Water · Mutable

Mercury in Pisces

Mercury is in detriment and fall: you think in images and feelings. Intuitive and poetic, while facts and lists slip through your fingers.

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What Mercury in Pisces means

Mercury is in detriment and fall: you think in images and feelings. Intuitive and poetic, while facts and lists slip through your fingers.

Mercury stands for your mind, speech and learning. In Pisces it works gently and intuitively; it dissolves borders and feels everything.

At a glance

Planet: Mercury: your mind, speech and learning
Sign: Pisces, water and mutable, ruled by Jupiter and, in modern astrology, Neptune
Dignity: Detriment and Fall
Time in each sign: two to three weeks, up to two months when it turns retrograde

Pisces is opposite Virgo, the sign Mercury rules, so here it works against the grain.

Pisces is opposite Virgo, where Mercury is exalted, so here it is in its fall and has to work harder.

Famous people with Mercury in Pisces

Only people whose Mercury stayed in Pisces through their whole birth day, wherever they were born.

Johann Sebastian BachGerman composer31 March 1685 – 17509Aries Charles DarwinEnglish naturalist and biologist12 February 1809 – 18825Aquarius Abraham Lincolnpresident of the United States from 1861 to 186512 February 1809 – 18655Aquarius Victor HugoFrench novelist, poet, dramatist and politician26 February 1802 – 18853Pisces NaruhitoEmperor of Japan23 February 19605Pisces Yuri GagarinSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space9 March 1934 – 196811masterPisces Lady GagaAmerican singer-songwriter and actress28 March 19861Aries Gabriel García MárquezColombian writer and Nobel laureate6 March 1927 – 20141Pisces Rafael Orozco MaestreColombian singer24 March 1954 – 19921Aries Thomas JeffersonFounding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 180913 April 1743 – 18265Aries Otto von BismarckGerman statesman and Chancellor1 April 1815 – 189820hidden 11Aries Akira KurosawaJapanese filmmaker23 March 1910 – 19981Aries

Mercury in the other signs

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Other planets in Pisces

Questions and answers

What does Mercury in Pisces mean?

Mercury is in detriment and fall: you think in images and feelings. Intuitive and poetic, while facts and lists slip through your fingers.

Is Mercury strong in Pisces?

Pisces is opposite Virgo, the sign Mercury rules, so here it works against the grain. Pisces is opposite Virgo, where Mercury is exalted, so here it is in its fall and has to work harder.

How do I know if I have Mercury in Pisces?

Enter your birth date in the free Mercury sign calculator.

Which famous people have Mercury in Pisces?

Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Victor Hugo, Naruhito, Yuri Gagarin, Lady Gaga, Gabriel García Márquez