Your name of Merton gives you a friendly, congenial personality and causes you to desire activities involving people. You have a strong emotional nature that, if not kept under control, could be detrimental to your health or result in problems in close personal relationships. Even with lesser ones, you prefer to talk them over with a respected friend or associate first. A positive outcome of these mental qualities is that you could develop the capability for very thorough and logical analysis enabling you to excel in technical or scientific fields. You gravitate to positions where there is stability, security and opportunities to work with others to make steady progress. You are not comfortable having to make major decisions. You could be very skilful in dealing with technical and mechanical matters. In your employment, you would want a job that is secure and dependable, preferably in some technical capacity where you have limited decision-making responsibility. Growths could also be a possibility in the digestive tract or prostate gland. Sluggish circulation of your bloodstream through lack of physical activity could limit your energy, and could cause swelling of the legs and feet, and even result in varicose veins.