Essential Dignities

☿︎Dignities of Mercury

Rules Gemini & Virgo · exalted in Virgo · detriment Sagittarius & Pisces · fall Pisces

Mercury's places of strength and weakness — doubly at home in Virgo (it rules and is exalted there) and in Gemini, in detriment in Sagittarius and Pisces and in fall in Pisces.

Mercury is doubly at home in Virgo, where it both rules and is exalted, and quick and curious in Gemini; opposite these, in Sagittarius and Pisces, the mind reaches for the big picture and can lose the thread of detail. It shows where thinking and speaking come naturally to you and where you gain by slowing down to check the particulars.