Mercury in the 1st House: Vedic Astrology

Mercury is the planet that stands for intelligence and has a significant impact on a person’s life depending on its placement. When positioned on the 1st house, it can affect and bring various effects in the native’s life. It affects different aspects of life and can bring both positive and negative effects. It can make the native highly curious, compassionate, and helpful, but when Mercury becomes afflicted it can make them rude, and fill them with pride.

In this article, we will go into details of the effects of Mercury in the 1st house. Let’s see what’s in store for these natives.

Aspects of Life Affected due to Mercury in 1st house

The position of Mercury in the first house can have a significant impact on the native’s life. Let’s see what parts of life this position of Mercury affects in your life.

• It impacts how you express yourself to others and how you communicate.
• There is an effect on your personal life such as relationships.
• Along with personal life, it affects your professional life and career.
• It also affects how you view knowledge and education.

Positive Effects of Mercury in the 1st House

A major positive impact of Mercury in the 1st house comes as making the natives curious and excited about the world around them. There is a constant drive within the native to know more and learn more. They will always be on the lookout for anything fresh and intriguing. They are quite adaptable and enjoy trying new things that are outside of their comfort zone. These natives like to travel to gain more knowledge and can bring out several different brilliant ideas in their minds.

This native also has an extremely positive mindset accompanied by sincerity and hope. You can rarely see them losing hope in something and because of this, they surrounded themselves with like-minded people. Therefore, they have the best of people as friends and will never have a shortage of help if needed.

As these people can get out of their comfort zone easily, they can adapt to changing circumstances. Their thirst for knowledge and curiosity drives them to be always on the move, molding them to be quite adaptive and versatile.

They are also built with the capability to communicate with others smoothly and efficiently. These natives are good at expressing themselves and are always on the communication because of their on-the-run curiosity.

The natives also have an interest in religion and are highly religious and spiritual. They tend to follow a spiritual path and know Shastras and Vedas as well. They respect and follow what they believe in and are compassionate and polite towards others. Moreover, they are respectful towards women as well. They go through a spiritual journey within themselves and find the true meaning of their lives and where they fit in.

Negative Effects of Mercury in the 1st House

The native is built with curiosity that makes them chase after different things at once and cannot focus on one thing. Their propensity to constantly attempt something new and different may be affecting certain elements of their life. If the Mercury is weak, they do not possess the concentration they need to focus on one thing and leave everything incomplete.  This disadvantage may pull them down and cannot advance in their life.

When the Mercury is weak in the 1st house, the native will have bad luck with choosing the people to take advice them. As they will not be able to focus, they want guidance from others and since Mercury is weak, they have incompetent friends who give them poor advice.

Another negative effect is that it can make the natives rude and stubborn. If they keep this personality intact they will be on the path to losing everything. It can fill the native with pride and slowly become narcissistic.

They also feel the constant need to dominate conversations and change the subject to something they are interested in. They will be stuck in their own ideas and passion, making them ignore the ideas of others. They don’t pay attention to others but want others to pay attention to them.

Lastly, when mercury becomes afflicted, it can bring health issues to the natives. They can suffer from diseases related to the eyes, stomach, gastric problems, heartburn, and many more.

Remedies for Mercury

A weak or afflicted Mercury doesn’t mean you have to face the consequences for your whole life. There are remedies to fix weak Mercury and bring positive effects to your life. Let’s see what the remedies are:

• The native needs to respect women. They have to show respect to their sisters, aunts, daughters, and other women.
• Wearing clothes of green color is a remedy.
• After buying new clothes, washing them helps against weak or afflicted Mercury.
• You should give donations on Wednesdays with a sincere and devoted mind.
• Feed green gram to birds and wear emeralds.
• Pray and give respects to Lord Vishnu.
• Chant the Budh Mantra “Om Bramm Breem Broum Sah Budhaya Namah” or “Aum Baum Budhaya namah”. Reciting and chanting this Mantra will make Mercury strong.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Mercury in the 1st house can have a lot of effect on a person’s life. It can make the natives highly knowledgeable and pave the path towards a bright future. They will make good friends and will follow a spiritual path in their lives. But if the Mercury is weak and afflicted, it can make them have a lot of problems in their life because of their stubborn behavior. However, there are remedies that you must follow to keep the negative effects at bay.