The Moon and Mercury in Aspect - Conjunction, Opposition, Square, Trine & Sextile.

The Moon and Mercury in Aspect

Moon Conjunct Mercury

There is a need to voice and speak about the emotions and feelings. Thinking about memories and thoughts and attempting to rationalise the feelings through thought and mental processes. Emotions overwhelm the thinking processes and influence outcomes. There is an affinity and strong intuitive sensitivity with the mother, as a mother, with and in the company of women. There is an ability to forecast outcomes with a keen success rate. This pairing indicates a clever and creative person who relates in a caring and communicative manner. Communicating with mother is a joy and you know what she is thinking more often than not.

Moon Opposition Mercury

The emotions and the ability to speak up are in conflict with each other. Choices are put upon the person to think or to feel and the constant need to balance the two arises often. The emotions and feelings of others cause one to think about their own feelings. There is an ability to rationalise the emotions of others or to rationalise one’s own emotions to others. Creating situations where one must choose between irrational feelings and a rational logical approach or decision. There is a talent for initiating discussion with others in a caring and protective manner. There is an ability to separate the emotions from the discussion and keep to a more rational process of communication and visa versa. Communicating with mother can be fraught with taking the opposite position and the tendency to argue, discuss or debate with her. There is also a tendency to use mother as a sounding board before taking action.

Moon Square Mercury

The emotions and the thought processes are at constant odds with each other. There is a constant need to weigh up, consider, postulate about and analyse the feelings and thoughts. There is a never ending flux going on as to how to feel about something, what to think about something, the need to consider the feelings but seeing the reality of the situation after thinking it through. The irrational verses the rationale causing the constant need to readjust the feeling and thoughts about those feelings or the feelings being felt and the thoughts about that. There is an ability to adjust to emotional circumstances through thinking and communicating. There is also the capacity to change one’s mind about something or to change one’s opinion or view point with this placement. Indeed it is very much a placement that will change its mind and feelings about things quite often as they are influenced highly by those who they keep regular company with.  Communicating with mother often causes you to change your course of action, think it through more or to consider the feelings going on.

Moon Trine Mercury

The emotions and thinking processes are in harmony and free flow. This is the placement that doesn’t hold back when it comes to saying what needs to be said regarding the emotions, feelings, the need to care for each other and the concerns of the family, women, mothers and children. The nature of the trine makes it hard to hold back, the nature of Mercury is to communicate and the nature of the Moon is to care – put all that together and we get the one who will talk about the elephant in the room and if anyone has a problem with that, it will be received like water of a ducks back with a comment along the lines of – well someone had to say it! Communicating with mother is enjoyable and just flows nicely.

Moon Sextile Mercury

The emotions and thinking process create and receive opportunities. The intuition is keen and has the ability to seek out and or to create things for themselves. A person who is in the know regarding trends because they can feel it and are adept at ‘reading’ what’s going on at the street level.  There is a keen ability to tap into caring and sensitive communication abilities that can see both above and below in situations. They see one and sense the other with opportunistic precision.  Communicating with mother stimulates ideas that you use to create opportunities or mother creates for you. 

The Sun & Moon in Aspect: Conjunction, Opposition, Square, Trine & Sextile.

The Lunar Pairs

The Moon laps the ecliptic in 28-29 days and makes an aspect to every planet during the Lunar month.  The Moon is the fastest moving planet.

Sun conjunct Moon

The Conjunction merges and synthesises the two energies. The Sun Moon Conjunction is a New Moon in The Moons cycle. As The Sun represents the view of father and The Moon represents the view of mother – the parental pair is viewed as a united front or one parent is seen to be in both roles. The Sun and Moon are in the same sign which is described as being ‘a double’. As The Sun is our identity and The Moon is our behaviours the conjunction aligns these to be expressed in a focused and consistent manner.  There is no conflict between how they feel and how they assert their will. The Sun is Yang and The Moon is Yin, The Sun is Anima and The Moon is Animus, The Sun is Masculine and The Moon is Feminine, The Sun is positive and The Moon is negative, The Sun is light and The Moon is dark – these are all in union, bound together, a binding of two into one, a merging, the synthesis is the conjunction.  It is so natural to the Sun Moon conjunction they are often surprised to find out that others struggle with how they feel and how they assert their will.

Sun square Moon

The Sun and Moon are connected by Mode when they are 90 degrees apart which is The Square. The square is the energy of stress and tension that forces action to be taken – it’s that nagging voice inside your head that arouses your attention, alerts to you to notice, and creates the need to think or feel things through in order to take action or adjust to circumstances that appear out of your control.  The will in the person is constantly at odds with the feelings; there is a struggle as to which compromise is the best option. Do you feel first then take action and assert your will or do you assert your will and deal with the emotions later – the square will put the person in both situations in no particular order. The ability to adjust to situations becomes a talent and the overcoming of obstacles toward achieving a balance between ones emotions and actions shapes a trade-off that can be lived with. The parental pair is seen as complimentary but fraught with some difficulties due to the apparent stress between them.  The parental pair is seen to work together using different methods to arrive at the same result which causes the friction and concurrent heat that keeps them together.

Sun opposite Moon

The Sun and Moon are connected by Polarity when they are 180 degrees apart which is The Opposition. The Opposition is the energy of conflict that forces actions to be taken – it’s that part of you that notices and attracts the views, opinions, actions and behaviours of others. The ability to walk in another’s shoes comes by way of the opposition, to place yourself in their position, to see and acknowledge that which is contrary and opposite to our own personal view is indeed the very nature of the opposition. This is the case because the opposition will always connect the lower hemisphere (self) of the chart to the upper hemisphere (others) of the chart.  The will of The Sun is in conflict with the feelings of The Moon. The need to compromise between the will and the emotions is constant. There will be times when one must be forsaken for the benefit of the other. There will be times when the feeling will rule and action will or will not be taken; there will be other times when the feelings are put aside in order to enact the will.  This gives the person an ability to know when to act on their feelings and when to hold them back, when to take action to assert their identity and when not to. It’s the process of weighing up the good, the bad and the ugly in order to take action or to assess the damage. The parental pair is seen as opposites that either strangely suit each other or were destined to a doomed failed marriage from the outset. One parent may be absent due to separation by divorce or the work commitments/ behaviours of one or other of the pair.

Sun Trine Moon

The Sun and Moon are connected by Element when they are 120 degrees apart. The Trine is free flow, no resistance; there is no friction between the emotions of the Moon and the identity of the Sun. The parental pair is seen to be in harmony, working in unison as a team and is seen to be a perfect match.  The Fire trine links the Sun and Moon with enthusiasm and a penchant for excitement and the alleviation of boredom. The Earth Trine is practical and full of common sense with a penchant for seeing and touching things. The Water Trine is sensitive and emotional with a penchant for finding an inner connection with others. The Trine is a soft aspect and presents little to no problems bar some laziness and an expectation that everything will work out fine with no effort at all. The two houses that are connected by the Trine will be areas that are linked in a harmonious and beneficial manner for the person.

Sun Sextile Moon

The Sun and Moon are connected by Feminine Signs (Earth and Water) or are connected by Masculine Signs (Fire and Air), when they are 60 degrees apart. The Sextile creates or receives opportunities that are beneficial in feelings and actions. It is not a strong aspect and is likely to be overshadowed by stronger aspects in the chart.