Mercury in the 7th house

The seventh house is where you meet the other — partners, close allies, the people you commit to one on one. With Mercury here, the astrological tradition reads relationships that live or die on communication: you want a companion you can talk to, think beside, puzzle things out with. Attraction may follow a good mind more than a first glance. The care point is to keep talking with rather than at each other, and to leave room for a partner's words to land differently than your own. Agreement is worth less than being genuinely understood. In your closest bond, honest talk offered gently tends to open more than agreement ever does.