Mercury in synastry (Part 2, Aspects)

Good old Mercury, trickster god, social butterfly, being of quicksilver and brimstone! You can make us a overthinking mess with a scorched-up brain, an impresario, a genius or a fool. Yet one thing is certain, we do need you to help us be human, help us acheive our essential purpose on this earth. Mercury, in synastry your importance is often understated: but the Green Lady makes no such mistakes.

Today I thought I would make a brief rundown on some significant Mercury aspects in synastry. Of course the whole chart needs to be taken into consideration. Merely piecing together aspects does not allow us to come to a competent, holistic understanding of a synastry chart.

Mercury in Synastry: an overview.

Of course, the “good” aspects between two Mercuries are always preferable. Sextile and trine point to a harmoniousness in the two peoples’ thinking and communication styles. For myself personally, I would favour the sextile, as it is invigorating and exciting without being stressful like a square. Mercuries in sextile would strike me as perfect, even between people who do not like to talk. The conjunction is very good as well, these people instinctively know how to speak with one another.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Venus aspects.

Positive Mercury aspects to a partner’s Venus may indicate that Venus would find the Mercury person sexy AND intelligent. The conjunction represents a couple who know how to make each other feel at ease. Squares or oppositions may have to do with unfortunate social blunders in communication. There may also be difficulties in each person making their needs understood.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Mars aspects.

Positive aspects between Mercury and Mars point to exciting communication that get the two stirred up and ready for action. Beware the square, conjunction and opposition, however. The square in particular can lead to arguments par excellence. It would have to be a damned good synastry chart to come out well in my estimation if it contained squares or oppositions between Mercury/Mars or Mercury/Pluto.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Jupiter aspects.

Positive aspects between Mercury and Jupiter would be amazing to have in a teacher/student kind of dynamic. Minds are opened and brought to higher potential in both directions. With harsh aspects, however, both parties could be dictatorial and inflexible with one another. It might be hard for either party to elicit forgiveness or openmindedness.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Saturn aspects.

Positive aspects between Mercury and Saturn can be binding. The couple will feel supported, encouraged and heard by each other. The conjunction, square and opposition aspects can be equally binding, but point to blocks of understanding and miscommunications between the two. Mercury can make Saturn feel insecure, especially if the Saturn person has issues with their natal Mercury.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Uranus aspects.

Positive aspects between Mercury and Uranus are awesome! Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury, and makes a very good companion for him. He can help him to acheive moments of excellence and brilliance. This is an exciting connexion. The square, conjunction and opposition can be just as electrifying and exciting, but perhaps too much so. There can be a flavour of Mars to this as well. Some crazy statements can come out of the woodwork, and cause offence.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Neptune aspects.

Neptune and Mercury aren’t going to go well together unless you’re in creative collaboration. Even the harmonious aspects can lead to deception and a lack of clarity. This is often a telepathic connexion, but be warned not to let your boundaries slip. A 12th house overlay with Mercury can lead to this as well.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Pluto aspects.

Mercury and Pluto in trine or sextile is very all-encompassing and sexy. Pluto wants to know who this person is, how they tick, what they have to offer them. The Mercury person feels something from Pluto that challenges their sense of identity and their thought processes, what they have come to believe about themselves. After meeting Pluto, they won’t ever be quite the same again. The conjunction, square and oppositon represent suspicion, paranoia, obsession and ego battles. These can fry the minds of both parties- until they learn how to let go.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Moon aspects.

With Moon-Mercury, both parties are reminded of childhood- either in a positive or negative sense. This can be a psychic, intuitive connexion. Things can get very emotional between you. The trine is gentle, the sextile emotionally supportive and invigorating. The conjunction are tuned into things the Moon prefers to hide. However, both can discuss easily what is dear to the heart. The square and oppositon are unfortunate, Mercury can often make the Moon feel ill at ease with what they say. Sometimes, they can be too extroverted or introverted for each other.

Mercury in Synastry: Mercury/Sun aspects.

Sun conjunction, trine or sextile Mercury are excellent and reassuring aspects. These can form the basis of many friendships; these people just GET each other. With the square and opposition, however, the two can have ego conflicts and feel distant from one another. With the oppositon in particular, true understanding between the two is elusive.

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Mercury in synastry (Part 1)

As Mercury is now in retrograde (causing my last post to disappear!), a lot of people have questions about the significance of Mercury in synastry. It is often overlooked, as I suppose it is not fluffy and romantic like Venus or the Moon, or sexy like Mars or Pluto. But communication does form the backbone of any good relationship. It is not the only possible backbone, but by gum it’s a good backbone to have.

(Read Part 2 here)

When you consider Mercury in astrology, you recognise that it is both the fastest moving planet and the closest to the Sun. It is the attending satellite to our own ego, our sense of identity and self. How we communicate has a great bearing on how we feel alive and connected to this Earth. When we can’t communicate, we aren’t liable to feel part of the human race. Mercury is an unglamorous workhorse, but it is integral to our identity. It is lifeblood.

Mercury in synastry: how might it play out?

When there is poor Mercury in a synastry chart, we have a couple who have nothing to say to one another. Or there could be misunderstandings, or classic arguments. If there are aspects with Neptune, for instance, watch out- lies! Could be lies, could just be omissions. In any case, solid Mercury is a glue we need to have. We need to be able to talk to our partners, be humans together, work it out and work out our way in the world together.

I am strongly Mercurial myself, having my chart ruler in the third house with a crapton of squares to everything. I am the overthinker par excellence and a wordsmith. For me, Mercury may be doubly important in synastry as opposed to someone who is not so strongly oriented towards communication with others. Remember in synastry to always check the natals first, to see what each individual partner needs. Then you can check the dynamics and how it all fits together.

Part 2 will contain more information on what are considered helpful Mercury aspects in synastry, and what are considered less helpful. Stay tuned!

Neptune.

So now I am thinking about Neptune, just as the Moon moves in to square it prior to this weekend’s penumbral lunar eclipse in Capricorn. A lot of people ask me about Neptune, and I often feel so lost for words. It is such a strange world.

Neptune is the destruction of boundaries and the dissolution of the ego. Which sounds so wonderful to some ears. I have heard it said that if there were no ego, there would be no suffering. But there would be no life on earth either. We are not here simply to float into ether and enjoy ourselves. We are here to have this human experience.

Neptune does, however, have its role in connecting us to a higher awareness. It connects us to transcendant experiences that are our birthright as divine beings. But it needs must be approached with caution. The lower energies that we dwell in become twisted and distorted under the influence of Neptunian energies. For what is the difference between a spiritual awakening and psychosis?

Drowning in Neptune:

A classic Neptune encounter might lead someone to believe they have discovered their twin flame. Everything seems divine, there is much of the supernatural, there is a feeling that this individual represents the lost half of themselves. A whole bunch of magical, creative thinking starts to emerge that resonates on a higher level, but of course makes no sense logically. But then the real world creeps back and there is conflict with this ideal and a dark night of the soul begins. This finally settles down when the person struck by the “twin flame” awakening embarks on a spiritual practice and sticks with it long enough to realise that what they saw in the other is a projection, a mirror of unmet needs and inner trauma. The soul hasn’t been split, but it remembers its birth trauma and has bundled all of its psychic baggage into one. It has been looking all of its life for something to offload it on. Who could blame it?

Neptune shows up to remind us that what we search for outside ourselves has been within us all along. The most beautiful experiences imaginable, the most divine beings- they reside within our own heart. We can heal ourselves. We can meet our own needs. But we need to meet the Divine first.

When there are Neptune contacts to personal planets in synastry, I always shout beware. The other tricky thing about it is that it can hide literally anything, it clouds and obscures and contains an eternity of hidden information. It is not a case of run, but simply a good idea to embrace that spiritual practice now and connect to one’s personal divinity so that there is a minimal amount of disillusionment, intoxication, humiliation or conflict. After all, we don’t like to suffer if we don’t have to!

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Wendigo psychosis.

Astrology is food for the soul. It should nourish us, it should bring us what we need in order to grow strong. However, like food, there is a lot of it that is junk. Confection. Pure artificiality, sweet to consume but death to our wellbeing, and addictive in how it appeals to our comfort zone. We have a comfort zone because we experience fear, because growth experiences are painful and beyond our understanding and control. We have been traumatised, and that deserves to be honoured and healed. But be wary of the medicine you consume. Humans are so prone to addiction! We are doomed to experience scarcity and lack at times where we don’t know how to cope, and this can draw us into toxic cycles that are hell to break free from. Enter the wendigo psychosis…

There’s an entity known in the USA as the wendigo. It is born in areas where there has been cannibalism. The wendigo is always hungry and doomed to be hungry forever, to consume more and more… The wendigo can affect what comes near it with its psychosis, and sickness for more. So you can imagine those people who came starving into lonely places and fell prey to the wendigo may have started to feed off others, when the need for human flesh subsided the craziness remained.

What’s nourishing can often no longer appeal. What feeds its own desire for more is it’s own devil fruit. I find many troubling myths perpetuated by people who are themselves bitten by the wendigo, struck by their inability to accept change, cowering in ego and clinging to more. Pushing a spiritual message that makes its followers thirsty for more and more comfort and lulled from examining their own thinking.

BEWARE:

These people aren’t in it for the knowledge and for the love of what they do, they are lost in the accumulation of money and followers in order to perpetuate their own karmic cycle in a state of stasis as long as possible. You and your cash are their drug and their supply to keep their own hell, and yours, going as long as possible.

So how do you know if an astrologer or tarot reader or any other occult worker is not in the grip of their own hunger and is doing their own work with honesty and integrity? I tell you this, their message needs to challenge you. It needs to bite you at a spot in yourself that you must look to yourself in order to find the means to address. In other words, it can’t just tell you what you want to hear.

Do you want to be prey forever? If not, you just face the pain.

And if all else fails, look at the eyes. They should tell you everything.

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Hunger.

Astrology is food for the soul. It should nourish us, it should bring us what we need in order to grow strong. However, like food, there is a lot of it that is junk. Confection. Pure artificiality, sweet to consume but death to our wellbeing, and addictive in how it appeals to our comfort zone.

We have a comfort zone because we experience fear, because growth experiences are painful and beyond our understanding and control. We have been traumatised, and that deserves to be honoured and healed. But be wary of the medicine you consume.

Humans are so prone to addiction! We are doomed to experience scarcity and lack at times where we don’t know how to cope, and this can draw us into toxic cycles that are hell to break free from.

There’s an entity known in the USA as the wendigo. It is born in areas where there has been cannibalism. The wendigo is always hungry and doomed to be hungry forever, to consume more and more… The wendigo can affect what comes near it with its psychosis, and sickness for more. So you can imagine those people who came starving into lonely places and fell prey to the wendigo may have started to feed off others, when the need for human flesh subsided the craziness remained.

What’s nourishing can often no longer appeal. What feeds its own desire for more is it’s own devil fruit. I find many troubling myths perpetuated by people who are themselves bitten by the wendigo, struck by their inability to accept change, cowering in ego and clinging to more. Pushing a spiritual message that makes its followers thirsty for more and more comfort and lulled from examining their own thinking.

These people aren’t in it for the knowledge and for the love of what they do, they are lost in the accumulation of money and followers in order to perpetuate their own karmic cycle in a state of stasis as long as possible. You and your cash are their drug and their supply to keep their own hell, and yours, going as long as possible.

So how do you know if an astrologer or tarot reader or any other occult worker is not in the grip of their own hunger and is doing their own work with honesty and integrity? I tell you this, their message needs to challenge you. It needs to bite you at a spot in yourself that you must look to yourself in order to find the means to address. In other words, it can’t just tell you what you want to hear.

Do you want to be prey forever? If not, you just face the pain.

And if all else fails, look at the eyes. They should tell you everything.

Venus RX post-retrograde shadow.

I’m not sure it’s right to spend any kind of energy or effort in attempting to manifest a particular person into a relationship with you as they have free will and the right to make their own decisions. No matter how strongly we feel that that person is meant for us. And one thing I do know for sure is that we can often be locked into a perspective of wanting something but that’s just a reflection of some baby stage of development we are at. We don’t REALLY want it, but there may be chakra pollution going on and outside energy that makes us think we do. It would be better to manifest a better us so that the ideal just comes naturally. And that seems easier, because it’s easily actionable, for crying out crap.

Forgive the rant, it’s borne of reading and watching all kinds of twaddle and people promoting guided meditations etc to manifest a particular person and while it seems tempting it does just strike me as completely wrong… also I’ve gotten messages that someone might have tried a love spell on me, and I don’t think it worked.

We are coming up to an eclipse in the shadow period of Venus RX after an eclipse DURING Venus RX so those who have played their cards wisely will be getting the payoff.

What will your payoff be? Liberation, or more lessons?

Nodal contacts in synastry

The nodes of the moon can be a controversial topic. The Nodes in synastry are especially controversial, they touch on that sensitive topic- spiritual growth. They are indeed indicative of the path of our soul’s evolution, which can mean so many different things according to different schools of thought. For my purposes, I use True Node as opposed to Mean Node.

I have looked into many of these schools of thought. I find myself coming back to an understanding that is extremely basic and based around my own experience in reading synastry charts as well as my own studies- and good old fashioned logic!

The nodes of the moon are the two points where the lunar orbit transcects the ecliptic- the path of the Sun’s apparent rotation around the Earth.

The Nodes in Synastry: an overview

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Now, when we think of the Moon in astrology, it is our emotional side that comes to mind. This our heritage, our mother, our past, our home, our secrets perhaps. It is what is hidden and on the inside. The Sun is the Moon’s consort, it is the conscious mind and the ego and our drive to survive and succeed. Where the path of the two come into intersection, there is a point of synthesis- a contact between two heavenly parents that forment a new and a new identity for the soul, the psyche in question.

With no past, there is no future. Without ego, there is no soul. With no Yin, there is no Yang. There is defintely a conflict on this axis, however, and it is on this axis we are reborn.

Now for what both actually represent to us as individuals. The South Node represents where we are comfortable, what we have already brought to fruition. It can be that spot we return to far too often, at the cost of other parts of our lives. We need to respond to the call of our North Node. That is the opposite point to our comfort zone. We need to embrace that uncomfortability that represents the dynamic growth of our hearts and minds.

The Nodes in Synastry: South Node

In synastry, south node connexions are often touted as evidence of a past life connexion, and in many cases they can indeed be exactly that. The south node will view the planet person as something of a warm comfortable couch that needs to eventually be gotten up from. Or the grab could be even tighter, depending on other factors in the synastry. These can start to become very unheathly dynamics over time, almost addictive. Both parties can start to resist the growth that is necessary for spiritual ascension or transformation. It is the South Node person who will need to grow and move on from this part of their lives. This is especially true if other factors in the synastry point to eventual dissolution or a lack of compatibility.

The Nodes in Synastry: North Node

When another person’s planets fall on the North Node, the North Node person is called to embody the flavour of that planet for themselves. I have seen a lot of cheerful misinformation spread that Saturn on the North Node, for instance, represents the Saturn person bringing their committment and discipline to unite with the North Node person in a solid union. This is true in the sense that the Saturnian qualities of the Saturn person will come into an uncomfortable collision with the North Node person and ensure that the North Node develops their own self-discipline, sense of commitment and restraint. Whether the two form a lasting bond will be down to other factors in the synastry, but malefics on the North Node are usually a solid no.

Remember the north node is the opposite of one’s comfort zone. It is considered a malefic in some branches of astrology and indeed I view it as a challenging contact. You won’t always want to be there in there, striving away, but it is something you are called to do. The South Node feels so safe, wonderful, familiar- but a little cloying at the same time… Which is why Life on this world is so wonderful at teaching us the fine art of Zen and detachment in the middle of a rock and a hard place. Once we stop clambouring after perfection and accept how crazy life can be, we are at the point of being able to savour the mystery!

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A beginning! An Eclipse!

So- a website! A blog! A home for my musings! A launchpad for my work! A sound and hearty galleon with which to sail (sometimes hostile) seas, and deliver my knowledge to those who would benefit from it… and to gather more in return.

At the time of writing, the Moon has recently passed the degree it inhabited at the time I was born- 10 degrees Scorpio. Mama Moon is grey and swollen, lurking darkly behind drifting slatelike clouds that have been pouring rain over my home city for weeks. She isn’t giving much away at present… Neptune is in station, turning retrograde. Saturn is gathering pace in retrograde, tumbling backwards into Capricorn. Mercury is comfortable in an RX, spitting sparks and lost mail, and Venus begs again to be center of attention as she shakes off her retrograde madness and trips lightly through the dainty zone of Gemini.

Mars launched himself into Aries just a few days ago much to the excitement of the astrology community- like a shot out of a fairground cannon! But now it is like Mars has shot his shot! The climax is done, the war god rolls over and snores. The door has banged open and the crowds await…

A great transition looms, yet the whole world feels like it is walking blind. For we are in the eclipse zone.

I am thirty-five! Single, no kids, one black cat and an aquarium with tropical fish and another empty one awaiting a setup of garden snails. Over the Covid lockdown, my flatmate went stir crazy and got nine thousand kinds of drunk and stoned so I am currently in a twilight zone of my parents’ spare bedroom. I am finishing up a massage course where a lot of painful things happened for me, and looking for other massage ventures I can pursue in tandem with my astrology. Things feel like nowhere, things feel like everywhere, it feels like the zone.

Trust! The lunar eclipse is all about trust. It is not a time for spells, for divination, for any of the ceaseless questionings we throw upon the Universe. This is a full moon on steroids, this is when shit starts to get real. It is time for us to remember our covenant with ourselves. For if you are reading this, you will surely have gone through those dark and tearful nights where you realised that you were going to have to get real with the heavens and get real with ourselves. No more hiding, the angels will want us to stand up and be counted.