Moon in aspect to Mercury

All Moon-Mercury planetary contacts are concerned with the relationship and dynamics of the Moon's instinctual, feeling, and emotional tendencies, with the analytical, lower mind, and communicative abilities reflected by Mercury's natal chart position. This connection can imply the type of inner relationship between the more unconscious personality functions and those of the separative conscious mind and ego.

The close conjunction of Moon and Mercury suggests a relatively open channel between your unconscious mind and your rational mind; exactly how this relationship works may, however, be variable, with both the strengths and weaknesses of each planet displayed over time. Much depends on the sign and element of the conjunction. If it is in Water or Earth, the Moon will probably be more influential; if in Air or Fire, then Mercury is likely to be the stronger partner, at least in your conscious experience.

If the Moon is more dominant and acting from a deeper personality level aligned with the unconscious mind, this will influence the formation of habitual attitudes, beliefs, and life perspective. Choices will be shaped invariably by underlying emotional needs, but presented as apparently rational decisions; although, if challenged about these decisions, your rational façade crumbles to reveal emotional reactions as the real decision-maker. Another indicator of hidden lunar influence is a strong emotional reaction to experiences, where rational response is absent and almost disregarded when you are facing important decisions. A preference for 'gut reaction' and the insistent message of emotions is present.

If Mercury is the dominant partner, then instead of emotions superseding clarity and understanding, a tendency for intellectual analysis and over evaluation of issues can interfere with instincts and feelings when you are responding to decision-making, situations, and people. Rationality assumes higher priority; and possible conflict may revolve around times when lunar messages contradict Mercury messages. Repressing either Moon or Mercury principles is always possible; and much may depend on the whole chart configuration to indicate a bias either way.

Yet, potentially, opportunity exists to use these planetary qualities and abilities creatively and positively - for instance, through relationships and social communication skills. You can be friendly and sociable, with others relating to you easily, and often trusting you as a confidante, as they recognize your sympathetic understanding. You tend to co-operate well with people, especially in work environments; and your personality is flexible and adaptable enough to fit easily into new working partnerships. Confidence in your abilities and knowledge is usually present, and this helps a positive assertiveness that leads to beneficial and constructive results for all concerned. You also recognize limits, rarely overstretching your abilities and talents beyond the breaking point, and are able to acknowledge when you need the additional knowledge of others who are more expert than yourself.

Ideally, you want people to see you as both intellectual and emotionally sensitive, thus honoring both Mercury and Moon in your nature. You can be a little hypersensitive at times, and emotionally touchy, especially when personal remakes are aimed toward you, as this activates defensive postures and attitudes related to the Moon. You are uncomfortable with criticism and will act defensively, either by excessive rationalization or by emotional denials and personal disagreements. At times, you may sense intangible criticisms and be sensitive to others' hidden thoughts which evoke an immediate but unconscious emotional reaction, even when you are unable to determine any objective reason for this 'inner feeling'.

The Mercury dimension appears as intellectual and imaginative abilities, as well as a positive attitude to life's experiences. You believe that lessons can be usefully learned from whatever happens and that 'experience' is truly the best teacher. You can benefit from formal study, as you are able to absorb information relatively easily; but the ideal type of study is one which also involves a positive emotional response, so that the Moon is also included. Favoring a more Mercurial type of intellectual activity or abstracted type of study may create an imbalance. You may see life as offering a multitude of fascinating avenues of enquiry; and through this attitude, interest can continually be stimulated and renewed. It is a 'growth attitude' which leads to creative change and helps you adapt to new circumstances. The main challenge is to unite both Moon and Mercury qualities consistently so co-operation results, and not conflict. You need to distinguish between opposing inner messages, identifying those associated with the Moon - habitual security, instinctual and emotional patterns - and those which the Mercury-influenced logical mind presents. These messages can be either complementary or conflicting; and to evaluate which requires your self-understanding. Real success only comes when the partnership is harmonious.

Family life and private domesticity will be important, both as a retreat allowing you to attune to certain Moon characteristics, such as self-nurturing, security needs, daily habit patterns and life organization, and as a safe environment for expressing strong emotions to loved ones. You have a natural affinity with young children, and could become a good parent. Certainly, you will devote much energy and attention to ensuring that your foundations in life are secured and harmonious.

Moon conjunct Mercury: The Moon conjunct Mercury means that you are sympathetic and understanding. A person of strong emotions, you are never without ways to show how much you care for those close to you. You have a rich imagination and the intellectual know-how to express it in a variety of ways. It is comparatively easy for you to enjoy people and to relate to them. You are prepared to accept whatever happens to you as an opportunity for enlarging your total worth. You learn more from experience than from deliberate study, although your capacity to absorb information through traditional learning is greater than for most people. Probably your early training stimulated your interest in acquiring knowledge, and because of this you will never suffer from boredom. You adapt easily to changing conditions, and look forward to the new opportunities they provide for growth.

You may have some difficulty in keeping your feelings and intellect from contaminating each other. Sometimes your emotions alter the clarity of your understanding, and at other times your intellectual evaluation interferes with what should be a simple emotional reaction. You don't want to be thought of as either an insensitive intellectual or an unreasoning emotional person. This should not cause you any serious problems, though, because most people will simply regard you as being human. You are sensitive to criticism and sometimes read more into someone's reaction to you than is actually there.

Because you are friendly and easy to get along with, it is easy for you to work with people, even those who are in competition with you. You rarely feel threatened by challenges because you are sure of what you know. You don't take on a challenge unless you feel certain you can succeed. People feel comfortable in conversation with you. They may even tell you their innermost secrets, because you are a good listener and gain their trust. With this planetary combination, you have to be careful that you don't accidentally violate that trust.

You will be a good parent and will impart to your children the same advantages you acquired from your parents. Young people feel comfortable with you, for you can identify with them. Neighbors' children might form closer ties with you than with their own parents, because they feel they can talk freely with you.

Moon conjunct Mercury: Neither the Moon nor Mercury is noted for stability, and this gives great liveliness and restlessness - to a degree that depends on the sign involved. The receptivity, emotionality and impressionability of the Moon can color thinking and the way in which these people arrange and analyze facts, and also the way in which they speak.

Quite often, in Mercury/ Moon aspects, we find a capacity to take things in easily; the Moon retains many impressions and helps the memory, although here again the sign is the deciding factor.

Moon/ Mercury conjunction people talk or write freely about whatever touches their emotions. They are always inclined to see and analyze things emotionally, according to the way in which they have been conditioned (the Moon). At the same time, they are able to pick up the feelings of others and find they can converse with others on their own terms. It is so easy to 'get inside other people' that problems can arise. The Moon always represents the search for a feeling of security; and getting under someone else's skin can rob people with that aspect of that feeling by exposing them to alien influences. There is a danger either that they shall act a part, or that they will be changeable and fickle.

To make these people more secure, they can activate Mercury, however, and may engage in contemplating and analyzing things or in talking them over with others, or they can do some writing (by keeping a diary for instance) or make up poetry. In short, these two planets go well together and the only drawback is that they give a double dose of restlessness.

Moon conjunct Mercury: This conjunction indicates a person who talks a lot about feelings, one who is interested in communicating what he feels, and one who talks when he is emotionally involved. The reaction to life experience will come from the sign in which the conjunction takes place.

The conjunction can indicate a closeness to the mother and an ability to communicate with her, unless it is afflicted by other planets. This person is a 'gut-reactor'.

Moon conjunct Mercury: This is often the indication of an unusually active, penetrating understanding; a powerful brain and a fertile imagination. It occurs in the charts of people of high intelligence, and its only disadvantage is its sensitiveness. Sometimes there is a certain whimsicality and eccentricity in those born with it.

It inclines to make the native careful about, and interested in, matters of hygiene, the effect upon the health and nervous system being apparently beneficial.

Moon conjunct Mercury: Robert 0, Ayn Rand 1, Robert Redford 1, Muhammad Ali 2, Kyle 3, Bruce Lee 4, Malcolm X 4, LaurieSw 4, Sky 4, Howard Hughes 5, Bruce Springsteen 5, Madonna Ciccone 6, Sean Connery 6, Milton William Cooper 6, U.G. Krishnamurti 6, MFor 6, Victoria 6, Dustin Hoffman 7, Benjamin Netanyahu 7, Brad Pitt 7, Ramakrishna 7, Collon 7, Ellen 8, Ludwig van Beethoven 9

Moon sextile Mercury

With the sextile, the Mercury qualities are often more emphasized, as this aspect is associated with the mind, information, understanding, and communication.

The lunar personality foundations are usually well established and not disruptive or unduly intrusive. You should be able to express your Moon's qualities in ways which also enhance Mercury qualities. Information and knowledge will be especially appealing; and perhaps you will have an almost insatiable curiosity and need for wide and extensive intellectual exploration. For you, the world is like an immense store-house of fascinations, your mind lighting up with interest as every new one comes into view. You could become a 'perpetual student', loving to explore each topic to the greatest possible depth, and perhaps becoming expert in limited areas of knowledge. Alternative, this could result in a dilettantish tendency, sampling many varieties of knowledge but rarely exploring deeply. Both memory and comprehension are likely to be above average, thus creating a well-stocked intellect.

What can emerge as a motivation is a need to be socially useful by contributing to your community. To achieve this, you hope to discover ways to transform thoughts and ideas into practical results. The sense of value and pleasure this gives serves to encourage increasing your knowledge. The issue of right direction may arise in this context; and you may decide to become involved with civic and social groups, pooling your assets and abilities with those of others to achieve group objectives. Generally, you look at ideas as sources for practical action and possibly personal profit, as you possess an effective business and organizational ability which could also be successfully exploited.

You can be an effective communicator, conveying ideas and presenting them in a clear and persuasive manner, being articulate and literate, entertaining and interesting. This can manifest in writing and lecturing, and can be beneficial in social communication, especially in activities which increase contact with groups. This can extend your influence and increase friendships; your personality is sufficiently flexible and tolerant to relate to many types of people. You may possess a sensitivity to others' thoughts and feelings, almost like a psychic intuition, but which operates through a Moon affinity of sensitivity and emotional rapport. This can act as an 'early warning system', indicating when people or situations are less genuine than they appear; so trust these inner sensations and feelings whenever they arise.

This sensitivity helps you to be tactful and diplomatic, whether in social contexts or within the family. Others can recognize your thoughtful and caring nature; and, provided that you do not become obsessive about manifesting your ideas, you should be able to co-operate and harmonize well with partners and family. Fortunately, your emotions rarely enter into direct conflict with your mind and ideas, but usually work with them in tandem, so that positive attitudes assist optimistic plans to become productive. This emotional and mental accord minimizes distracting inner conflicts and enables problem resolution to be achieved more smoothly.

Your Moon's emotional warmth and protective concern is an asset for family members and intimate relationships; and domesticity will be well organized, founded on close and effective communication. Home is important; but wider social involvement will be equally so, as this is often the environment in which you intend to apply your ideas practically. Both emotions and mind are recognized as offering valid messages; but ensure that neither becomes imbalanced through overemphasis, as each performs an important role in different circumstances. Intimate partnerships, marriage, or love affairs will involve a high level of mutual communication and sharing; enriching both participants' lives and contributing to achieving personal aims.

You will be attracted to similarly intelligent and optimistic partners who are able to exploit innate talents, especially those who conceive ambitions and then strive to achieve them. A danger is that, if two people are chasing individual goals and dreams, then conflict may occur if their paths begin to diverge rather than run parallel.

Moon sextile Mercury: The Moon in sextile to Mercury indicates a person who can develop talents that combine the art of communication with feeling, subjective experience. Emotional reactions can easily be discussed, for the mother teaches this child how to communicate feelings early on. In the area of relationships, this aspect is obviously helpful. As far as career is concerned, the tie between the intuitive-feeling process, represented by the Moon, and the mental processes and ability to communicate, represented by Mercury, can help this individual communicate in a nurturing, responsive manner. This aspect may be wasted in pleasant conversation if not trained properly.

Moon sextile Mercury: The Moon sextile Mercury gives you a sensitive and thoughtful disposition. You absorb information almost greedily, your level of comprehension is highly developed, and your ability to recall is above average. You have a strong desire to be useful to the people you deal with, which motivates you to continually broaden your knowledge. Because your emotions are rarely in conflict with your intellect, you can successfully deal with your problems without complicating them further. You enjoy the friendship of many kinds of people because you are flexible enough to make allowances for them. Fascinated by anything that arouses your curiosity, you aren't satisfied until you have explored it thoroughly. You are well read on many subjects. A delightful conversationalist, you inject charm and humor into any discussion and never fail to keep your listener's attention. You are so sensitive to the thoughts of those around you that you can 'feel' it when they are dishonest or insincere. Your positive and happy disposition seems to spread to everyone around you.

Your talent for communication can be useful in many professional applications. Public relations would be ideal for you, but you could succeed in any endeavor that brings you before large or small groups of people. You make others feel comfortable with your genuine concern for them, as you imply that they are the most important people you have ever dealt with. Your tact and diplomacy are so great that even your competitors have to admire you for these qualities. You are never too busy to take care of the endless details that most people find obnoxious.

Emotionally drawn to persons who are educated, bright, and cheerful, you can relate best to an individual who has defined a goal and has laid a plan for achieving it. You always insist on total communication and believe that silence is dull rather than golden. You want to share in your mate's plans for the future and participate in making the memories you will someday look back on together.

You can enrich your life with many interests. Although you seem attracted to hobbies you can pursue at home, you would enjoy the added social factor of outside interests. Perhaps you are a joiner and will find time for civic activities, or you might prefer functions that involve active participation by the whole family. In any case, you impart a broadening quality to those you love and to the environment you create for them.

Moon trine or sextile Mercury: Despite the harmonious nature of this link between the Moon and Mercury, the restlessness inherent in each easily shows itself. This can make it hard to concentrate on something until the individual becomes emotionally involved in it. When this happens, thinking is both animated and intense.

With harmonious Moon/ Mercury aspects, the individual often has the ability to express fluently; he or she gets meaning across well and very quickly grasps what others mean; and this can make for rapier-like sharpness in debates. The individual is very quick at picking up facts and figures, and at putting two and two together. And with the harmonious aspects between Mercury and the formative principle (Moon) descriptions are clear and explicit. The individual has an innate gift for the spoken or written word, so this is a fine aspect for writers and journalists.

The Moon and Mercury are both very mobile. When combined harmoniously, they impart great flexibility of mind and body. But because they both tend to lack a sense of direction even their harmonious aspects may cause one to blow with the wind.

Memory and assimilation are very often outstanding with these aspects. The Moon, which has so much to do with the past, with the tried and trusted, and with the way in which one is conditioned by upbringing, naturally builds up a store of impressions, a store that is constantly being enriched through the inquisitiveness of Mercury. Therefore this individual is well suited to work involving data processing and the general handling of information.

Moon trine or sextile Mercury: These configurations indicate a happy relationship between brain and common-sense, two things by no means always found in unison. There is usually a shrewd, careful, understanding mind, with a good deal of sense and a kindly disposition, the benevolence of the Moon tempering the Mercurial matter-of-fact tendencies.

Often there is nothing strikingly brilliant in the mentality, but it is sound, logical, and judicious. Usually it is honest and straight-dealing. The contacts are excellent for all mental matters and for affairs of the 3rd house, such as writing, lecturing, and all ways and means of communicating ideas, news, and information.

Further, the 4th house benefits through the lunar influence; the mind is fitted to deal with all domestic things; with land, house-property, furniture, and so forth. It is good for an architect, builder, brick-maker, carpenter, plumber, or dealer in furnishings of any sort.

The speech and literary style are usually plain, direct, and matter-of-fact. In monarchs, officials, and governors it seems to make for popularity and a good press. The configuration also benefits health, gives healthful habits, prudence in care of the body, and sound nerves.

To a man the marriage is usually beneficial, unless other factors, such as the 7th house, contradict this. The wife is often clever, entertaining, astute, and helpful in business matters.

Moon square Mercury

The square aspect between the Moon and Mercury indicates inner tension, stress, and frustration, and a need for a radical inner adaptation to rebalance these two conflicting energies. Conscious change is required to overcome conflict between your conscious mind and protective lunar habit patterns.

One likely imbalance is an unconscious lunar domination of your rational mind, where thought processes are subverted by deep emotions and feelings, with a consequence that decisions, judgments, or objective evaluation are influenced by emotionally charged attitudes. Such unconscious attitudes and values - possibly absorbed during early childhood or from parents - can condition present choices, where issues of the past still dominate your current life.

Simply put, head and heart can be in constant conflict within you; decisions may be made according to which is dominant at any given time. This temporary supremacy can vary, like a pendulum movement, and may also be related to the sign, house, and element that each planet is in. It may be that one planet consistently dominates, and the other one becomes repressed. If Mercury dominates, then the Moon activity can sink deeper into the unconscious mind, influencing you more subtly and pervasively from a hidden position where the emotional coloration is less noticeable to you than to others. If Mercury is repressed, then rationality and logic may diminish, and choices may be influenced by insistent emotions, instincts, and feelings; habit patterns may often be security-biased. Sometimes you may observe that, when attempting to restore inner balance, Mercury begins to excessively rationalize feelings and emotions. If this is allowed to persist, you may start to deny the validity of your emotions and feelings, and in so doing repress your Moon sensitivity, creating another imbalance.

Inner tension can reflect insecurity and self-doubt, creating highly nervous activity prompted by disharmony between the personality's conscious and unconscious levels. Sometimes this can manifest as psychosomatic illness, especially nervous illness, digestive problems, and diseases related to the activity of body fluids. Another problem could emerge from self-centeredness and separative ways of living and expression. You may rely on fixed attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, and values for a sense of stable security; but these can also create relationship difficulties if you act inflexibly. Whenever someone else's opinion differs from yours, you may react with aggressive defensiveness, without first considering the value of another point of view. You hate suggestions from others that you may be wrong, as this makes you feel insecure. Your response to this is often defiant and compulsively assertive. Paranoid feelings often accompany this reaction; and you can be very touchy emotionally, often triggering off misunderstandings and communication breakdown.

With strangers you always feel insecure and on the defensive; even with closer friends, acquaintances, and family this pattern persists, although with les belligerence. Yet even in the family home, you react against having to change to accommodate others. Self-centeredly, you believe they should change to suit you;; the fact that they may not wish to do so is apparently of little concern to you.

Yet you can often communicate quite well with those with whom you feel safe, often revealing a touching if slightly immature and sentimental emotionality about such relationships. Your hidden dependency on such intimates may not always be realized or acknowledged.

Relationships would improve if you were less self-preoccupied, seeing others' needs as being as important as your own, and giving to others what you are so busy taking for yourself. Attention needs to be directed externally for you to become aware that others have equal needs and difficulties. Through mutual support, all can benefit and have a more enjoyable life.

Sometimes your needs and concerns can become obsessive; and you rarely see that this represents immaturity and lack of integration. Ways that you evade making necessary inner changes can include obsessions with trivia and matters of inconsequence, continual chatter, which can create unsatisfactory relationships and wastes energy instead of using it positively to change internal stress through self-understanding.

Mercury is often repressed by a dominant Moon whenever issues of personal security dominate life, much like a demanding infant wanting immediate satisfaction. Because of this, you can lack rationality and objectivity, as noted in signs of immaturity, a lack of self-understanding, and a surfeit of emotional bias. Sometimes your ability to discriminate between reality and illusion, fact and fiction, is weak. You can often be full of unresolved questions, uncertain of what you really think and feel about life and people, even though you defend whatever thoughts you are presenting.

There can be a state of 'life-confusion' which persists until inner transformation is achieved; dissolving several internal barriers between yourself and others is essential. This can prove beneficial and help to release previously unexpressed positive, constructive energies. Frustrations can gradually dissolve if you direct energy toward the path of growth and self-development.

Moon square Mercury: The Moon square Mercury indicates that you have difficulty in making reasonable judgments, because your feelings are usually involved. It can be disturbing to find out later that your actions have shown incredible immaturity. It isn't easy for you to be completely rational or objective, for you are overly sensitive and cannot remain impartial in what you say or do. You sometimes have difficulty in separating fact from fancy, and may unfairly assume that people are criticizing you when this is not the case at all. Because of this, you get involved in gross misunderstandings with many people and can become very unpopular.

You are sentimental about those close to you, and attach great importance to the things you own. Preoccupied with trivial matters, you waste a lot of needless effort and energy on them. Your problem is that you tend to dwell to excess on yourself, for you are insecure and fearful that people won't appreciate you, no matter what you do. In a sense, you are selfish; you need to devote as much time and concern to other people as to yourself. Try to re-channel your interests outside yourself. Just the effort of trying will help reduce your almost neurotic attitude about your personal affairs. It would not only be healthier but also enable you to observe that the problems others have are not very different from your own.

After you realize your shortcomings and can relate to people more easily, you can look to the future with optimism. You should find some comfort working with young people or children. But stay clear of people in your own age group until you learn to withstand their criticism, which you see as a put-down. Once you are truly secure in what you know and what you can do, you should think about competing with your peers. Be careful you don't cut people down when they challenge you. Before you launch a verbal attack, re-examine the facts to see if it is justified.

You communicate well with those close to you, because you don't feel insecure. It is quite different with strangers, though, for you feel threatened by them. This is why you don't make friends easily. You resent having to make adjustments or allowances for other people, preferring that they adjust to your particular frail and vulnerable personality. You hold fast to your opinions and are defiant when anyone suggests you are mistaken. Unbend a little - it will be a lot less painful for you and will encourage others to be more sympathetic and understanding.

Moon square Mercury: Patrice 0, Willie Nelson 1, Charles Manson 2, Patti Smith 2, Albert Schweitzer 2, Orson Welles 2, Karl Renz 3, Andrea 3, J 3, Marie 3, Bette Davis 4, Terence McKenna 4, Peter Sellers 4, Jane 4, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 5, Gina 5, Jason 5, Timothy Leary 6, Vaslav Nijinsky 6, Geoff 6, Ezra Pound 7, Brian Wilson 7, Cesar 7, Merrill 7, Sarik 7, Alford, Alicia?, MarieBr

Moon trine Mercury

The trine indicates an opportunity to reconcile the Moon's instinctive, emotional energies with the mental and communicative energies of Mercury.

You should experience few direct conflicts between emotional messages and mental messages. A channel exists between the conscious and unconscious personality; yet these do not often pull you in different directions or amplify stress and psychological conflicts.

In order to determine your reactions to experiences, you will need to evaluate emotions and feelings; and this underpins your Mercurial intellect. You approach life with a relatively open heart and mind, and see all experience as contributing to self-development. Even though your Moon may resist life's sometimes harsh lessons, you can see the positive value that can emerge form difficult times. Through this attitude and heightened sensitivity, you can acquire insight in addition to knowledge, particularly when perceiving the interconnectedness of information and new ways of using it. This provides a new foundation for ongoing creative expression.

You can be inspired by a desire to utilize natural talents and abilities for social benefit; and your 'common sense' reflects a progressive, optimistic attitude, yet one which is not overly idealistic or blind to life's realities. You recognize that all is not either light or darkness, but that much of life exists in the shadow or gray area between. Instead of dwelling on the negative, you prefer to look toward more positive future possibilities, hoping to ensure that hard-won lessons from previous experience are applied when dealing with present situations. Experiences from the past can serve as stepping-stones taking you progressively onward.

In social and intimate family relationships, you will be appreciated for your sympathetic understanding. You have genuine concern and compassion for others, and a love of fairness and equality of opportunity. You help others less fortunate than yourself, and those who are passing through traumatic times of life disruption. While privately acknowledging your problems and weaknesses, you tend to keep them private, dealing with them by trying to resolve emotional unease through self-objectivity and rationality. Emotional anxieties are usually kept hidden, although, in your sharing and helping others, your previous experiences and lessons may be deliberately mentioned if they serve to support or illuminate problems. You are not the type, however, to unload any current difficulties onto the shoulders of others.

Reason and logic are strong personality components, although these are colored by your instinctive emotional valuations of people, situations, and circumstances, forming a uniquely personal viewpoint. With a good memory and ability to apply knowledge positively and constructively, there may be business talents present and waiting to be exploited, talents which could be effectively released through modern communication media, perhaps involving your fluency of speech, literary skills, and communication abilities.

Moon trine Mercury: The trine of the Moon to Mercury indicates that you are willing to accept all your experiences as ways to enrich your consciousness. You evaluate your reactions to people, events and situations quickly. Since you derive more significance from your response to stimuli than most people do, you accumulate a vast storehouse of information. This forms the basis for your creative development and expression. Your emotions are well integrated with your intellect. You are warmly sympathetic toward everyone and show a high degree of comprehension in your dealings with people. You have an amazingly retentive memory, and your ability to recall past incidents is remarkable. However, you don't allow the past to distort your reactions to current events; instead, you make good use of the lessons you have learned from the past. You show great eagerness to make your life useful and expressive. You search for new ways to exploit your talents and usually find them.

Your circle of friends is large because you are flexible enough to make allowances for people's undesirable traits. You earn the affection of everyone you deal with because you are fair and never too busy to offer assistance when they need it. Young people are especially attracted to you, and you make them feel quite comfortable with you. Because you don't expect more from them than they can do, they don't feel threatened. You are never so preoccupied with your personal affairs that you can't spend time with them.

You can succeed in your professional interests because you know how to apply your knowledge to get the best results. You look at problems objectively and are willing to ask for help if you cannot solve them. Realizing that you don't know everything, you are not afraid to admit it.

You may have some emotional anxieties, but you are completely aware of them. You don't generally reveal your personal problems to anyone except your most intimate and trusted friends. You don't dwell on negative thoughts; and, with your compassion and sincere concern, you can often help those who do.

Your life should be happy and filled with close friends, pleasant social activities, and comfortable domestic conditions. You will probably realize the goals you only dreamed of yesterday. You may have periods of difficulty, but you have the ability to cope with them, so they will not be long-lasting.

Moon trine Mercury: This trine indicates a mother who easily communicates her feelings and is interested in dealing with her child. This forms the individual who has the trine into an adult who enjoys relating, who enjoys the social graces and sharing both thoughts and feelings. It bestows an intuitive creativity, an interest in expressing the emotional self.

However, this aspect can be outweighed by afflictions from stronger planets to the Moon. For example, if Mercury trines the Moon but Saturn squares it, the Saturn aspect will be the stronger one, especially in the early years. This type of combination will indicate that the child had a good talking relationship with the mother, but not with the father.

With harmonious Moon / Mercury aspects, the individual often has the ability to express fluently; he or she gets meaning across well and very quickly grasps what others mean; and this can make for rapier-like sharpness in debates. The individual is very quick at picking up facts and figures, and at putting two and two together. And with the harmonious aspects between Mercury and the formative principle (Moon) descriptions are clear and explicit. The individual has an innate gift for the spoken or written word, so this is a fine aspect for writers and journalists.

To a man the marriage is usually beneficial, unless other factors, such as the 7th house, contradict this. The wife is often clever, entertaining, astute, and helpful in business matters.

Moon trine Mercury: Sally Field 0, Babe Ruth 1, O.J. Simpson 1, Jim Carrey 2, Johnny Cash 2, Cher 2, Hillary Rodham Clinton 2, William Randolph Hearst 2, Swami Vivekananda 2, ChrisTr 2, Keith 2, Groucho Marx 3, Dunja 3, JJ 3, Maureen 3, John F. Kennedy 4, Suzanne Somers 4, Jimi Hendrix 5, John Lennon 5, Vincent van Gogh 5, Mickey Mantle 6, Paramahansa Yogananda 6, BenT 6, Fisher 6, Judin 6, Nirvesh 7, Yarrow 7, Elroy

Moon quincunx Mercury

With the Moon inconjunct Mercury, your emotions and intellect interfere with each other so much that you have difficulty in solving your problems. You overreact emotionally to situations and so cannot rationalize them properly. When you inject feeling instead of examining the facts, any reasonable evaluation of the situation becomes impossible. You infer that criticism is directed at you when that is not the case at all; your reaction is out of all proportion to the truth. But you are emotionally aroused and take out your hostility on those dearest to you without realizing it. People can easily learn to resent and avoid you at the same time.

You carry tremendous guilt for the way you behave, but nevertheless you repeat the behavior when similar circumstances occur. A vicious circle is established, which can eventually cause you much mental anxiety. You should resist taking action on any problem that develops until you can seek an objective opinion about it. Your initial reaction is most likely to be faulty and unjustified when the facts are examined carefully.

You have an unconscious desire to be of service to everyone you meet, but you are resented for this. Instead of gaining everyone's approval for your deeds, you arouse their criticism. It seems you are not content just to perform a service, but have to bring attention to yourself for doing it. This touches a raw nerve in people, who then feel obligated to you and resent it. To begin with, you should concern yourself with your own affairs, for they are your highest priority. Forget about other people until you have your own problems in order. Otherwise you will run the risk of being used by those you show an interest in and will be hurt when you realize what they've done.

You can work out your desire to be of service through professional endeavors. In your job, do exactly what is expected of you and nothing more. Never volunteer, or the chances are you'll complain of how exhausted you are because of all the work you have to do. You are too sensitive and easily irritated to complicate your life unnecessarily.

In your romantic associations, you try too hard to be desired. You put yourself in difficult situations with the person you are attracted to and are crushed if your efforts are unrewarded. Try instead to give your prospective partner a chance to demonstrate affection before you assert yourself. Otherwise you may encourage someone to abuse your love and take advantage of you. Learn to let a relationship develop without putting pressure on it.

Moon quincunx Mercury: With the inconjunct between the Moon and Mercury, we are harried by an indefinable restlessness, the source of which is difficult to locate. We feel that the way in which we marshal and communicate facts somehow obstructs our search for peace and comfort. We need to talk but feel nervous and insecure when contacting others. This may even have an adverse effect on health, and may make it hard to concentrate or to perform work properly. Sometimes we simply run around in circles. It happens fairly often that, owing to a need for emotional security, we concern ourselves with things that are completely different from the things we would find mentally satisfying. Uncertainty can make us inquisitive about the lives of others. We may even resort to gossip and caustic remarks as a defense mechanism against insecurity.

The task of making our meaning clearly understood, and indeed our general intercourse with others, can prove something of a problem. We are not adept at expressing ourselves and run the risk of creating the wrong impression. Failure to comprehend the person we are addressing prevents us from emphasizing the right things, and any interview is likely to end in confusion.

So, whenever we feel threatened, we have an irresistible impulse to fall back on the form of behavior that makes us feel safe (Moon). But this impulse runs counter to the need to communicate (Mercury): out lunar behavior starts interfering and the contact is blocked. Much energy can be invested in the struggle to resolve such situations, but, once they are resolved, it can be used very creatively.

Moon quincunx Mercury: Any quincunx in the chart shows strain. The strain is not a big, tense feeling like the square or opposition, but it is worrisome. Because the strain is subtle, or gnawing, it eventually affects the health. When Mercury doesn't express the feelings of the Moon, the internal self is not at peace. The qualities of the signs need to be understood; the individual tends to favor one sign and suppress the other, but both qualities need to find expression.

Moon quincunx Mercury: Bertrand Russell 0, Gloria Steinem 0, Phylissa 0, Melanie Griffith 2, Sugeet 2, Alan Arkin 3, Carlos Castaneda 3, H.G. Wells 3, Clark 3, Mick 3, Roberto 3, TonyO 3, J. Krishnamurti 4, Mark Twain 4, Farmer 4, Jamie 4, ScottS 4, Shiloh 4

Moon opposite Mercury

With the opposition, friction between Moon and Mercury results in emotions, instincts, and feelings pulling in one direction, and rationality, logic, and conscious mind moving in an opposite direction. This inner disharmony is then reflected through projection onto the external world, influencing your relationships. While this inner division remains unresolved, relationship conflicts will persist. Decision-making can prove difficult, and you may rely on others deciding for you, as you cannot determine which path to follow, whether to choose instincts, emotions, or rationality. Inner unity, when both messages coincide, is a rare experience for you.

This situation can stultify actions and choices, distorting perceptions and judgment. Confusion often results, with regular changes of mind or heart which disturb and disrupt relationships. Sometimes attempting to break through an impasse may force you to act impulsively and instinctively with variable results. Equally, responses can be emotionally biased, devoid of rational evaluation or common sense. Alternatively, Mercury can dominate, with an extremely cold perception which succeeds mainly in temporarily denying any emotional feeling at all; choices from that perspective can fail once feelings wake up again and decide to react against the current situation which Mercury has brought about!

As a consequence of private confusion, you are often irritated by social life; and inner friction evokes external friction by provoking arguments. You can be insensitive and offensive to others, unaware of a lack of tact, sensitivity, and diplomacy, although you are quick to rise to others who criticize you personally. Like everyone else, there are times (many, many times) when you will be 'wrong' in life, as no-one is infallible. You may need to learn how to admit mistakes, however.

Intimate relationships and partnerships need greater awareness, concessions, and compromises for them to continue satisfactorily. Otherwise, emotional friction and damage are likely as conflicts intensify through clashes of attitude and values. Family life can generate considerable agitation and worry, exacerbating inner confusion, unless you can resolve innate conflicts. Nervous emotional excitement can be activated; and this can have negative health consequences. Compulsive talking can occur as a compensation for effective relationship, although what is often noticeable is that this lacks depth and content. Increasingly imbalanced, unconscious emotional patterns can distort inner messages and life perceptions, diminishing your ability for clear thinking and clear communication.

What is required is self-understanding and integration between your emotional and rational nature. Clarity and awareness is needed regarding these lunar patterns of emotional need, dependency, and the reliance of security and stability. With the Mercury influence, rationality and objectivity are required to help rebalance inner disharmony. The challenge is to integrate these two opposing messages. Until some progress is made, self-expression can be restricted and distorted. Favoring either planet creates conflict; honoring each planet is the route to wholeness, and the key to resolving this psychological imbalance.

Moon opposite Mercury: The Moon opposition Mercury shows that you have difficulty bringing your emotions into balance with your reasoning; there is distortion between your feelings and your intellectual processes. You react to personal and social situations in a confused way, which produces problems in your relationships. Your responses are sometimes so emotional that it is impossible for people to make adequate compromises with you. At other times, you evaluate a situation involving others with such cold logic that they doubt you have any feeling for them at all. You offend without knowing it, and then wonder why people seem to be alienated from you. This lack of integration between feeling and thinking can be corrected if you will make it a point not to make any decisions until the other persons involved can express their opinions. If you truly care, you will examine the facts they present and try to meet them halfway. This is a more tactful way to act, and will result in more mature judgment. You tend to jump to conclusions impulsively, but if you can make concessions when this urge erupts, you will like yourself more. Also, the people you deal with will be far more comfortable in your company.

You can see from the foregoing that it is extremely important for you to work out this imbalance. If you can learn to be more compromising, your professional endeavors will be much more pleasant, whether you work with individuals or with the public at large. By admitting it when you are wrong, you will earn the close fellowship of those you work with. Try not to take criticism too personally. When people challenge you or question your opinion, take it as an opportunity to correct any misunderstanding of what you mean. As Alexander Pope said, 'to err is human; to forgive, divine'.

Differences of opinion with your mate may cause you some distress in your domestic affairs. You are easily irritated and argue at the slightest provocation. Perhaps you are an impulse buyer who runs up bills for useless items. You worry excessively about family matters that don't deserve so much attention. Stifle the inclination to tell others the details of your private and domestic affairs. Most people have an adequate share of their own troubles. If you want to report the news, get a job with your local newspaper. Don't jeopardize your standing in the neighborhood by circulating stories, even if they are true.

Moon opposite Mercury: Tammy 0, Judy Garland, Robert Plant 1, Jen 3, Michelle 3, Robert De Niro 4, Tyler 4, JBLight 5, Jeff 6, Prince Charles 7, Arnold Palmer 7, Dewitt 7, Eva 8, Prabhukar 8, Bill Gates 9