** This contents are collected from my Guru’s (Deepanshu Giri) facebook page Lunarastro . The post is written by Nitin Bhatt . So these contents are for learning and research purpose only. I will gradually Update it.
As we know in astrology Mercury is communication and 8th house is Death. So Mercury in 8th is the bearer of the bad news. Native may have committed sin of giving someone bad news just for joke, as 8th house is death, breaks and mercury represents communication, humour, so in this life also native will get habit of uncontrollable laugh, miscommunication at wrong time and even speaking Ill of the dead.
That is why writing obituary for ancestors and write and communicate good things about them will ward off negative energy of the Mercury in the 8th house.
Also Mercury in 8th house shows incomplete rituals of death in family.
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