Mercury in Leo
If you have Mercury in Leo, you have strong, fixed opinions and love to express your thoughts energetically and dramatically. You wholeheartedly identify with your beliefs. You can be a warm, convincing, entertaining speaker and an effective story teller. Exaggeration plays a key role in all your tales and expressions. You put on a good show no matter who the audience is. You have a distinctive style of expressing yourself. Teaching ability is present.
You have many creative ideas and want to have a voice in decision-making. You take great pride in your mind and thought processes and others may think of you as a bit of a know-it-all. You need to watch a tendency towards false pride, intolerance, stubbornness, needing appreciation for everything you do or say, and becoming overly impressed with your own abilities. You could be a good politician, spokesperson, group leader, director, or coach. You need to be admired for your mind.
With Mercury in Leo you’re refined, dignified, and very creative, but need to be more objective in your thinking. It’s important to develop a wider and less self-centered way of looking at things. You’re ambitious, dynamic, dramatic and emotional with your ideas and opinions, but if Mercury is afflicted, may be fixed and opinionated as well. You tend to be outgoing in speech and manner, and express strong views that are hard to influence or change.