Conjunction Moon – Mercury Het Monster: A close connection between consciousness and the subconscious, accurate self-assessment and perception of others. With favorable aspects — emotions under the control of reason, ability to penetrate one’s subconscious and analyze it; with unfavorable aspects — emotions overpower reason, hypersensitivity and painful reactions to remarks and criticism. These people pay great attention to home and family matters, as well as personal health. Strong ability to express thoughts both orally and in writing. Frequent travels and exchange of ideas with other people (symposia). With poor aspects — talkativeness. With the slightest negative influence — neuroses, nervous disorders.
Catherine Aubier: Conjunction Moon – Mercury
Conjunction: unity of mind and feelings. As a result — excellent adaptability, rich imagination, and freedom of self-expression, where contact with reality provides less than the power of imagination.
A. Podvodny: Conjunction Moon – Mercury
Conjunction with the Moon: Narrow confines of personal egoism hinder me from fully embracing the world. The conjunction with the Moon gives the planet active participation in the person’s subconscious life. The individual feels intimately connected with the planet’s principle, which colors their needs, especially vital and social ones. At a low level of aspect integration, and generally for people with an unprocessed Moon, the Moon often proves stronger than any other planet (the ego principle dominates life), and in particular, planets in conjunction transform its principle into one of their parasitic consumption programs. For example, with the Moon-Venus conjunction, a person tends to enjoy beauty, social contacts, and love, but after interaction, people in general, and loved ones in particular, need long recovery, restoring their energy and faith in humanity; from works of art, such an appreciator and connoisseur crudely removes the most accessible layer of dullness, which is not so easy to erase, and sometimes may even destroy it completely—here the moment of Absolute creativity manifests through the capriciousness of the person’s taste, or through circumstances that devour the person themselves. Processing the aspect brings great subtlety and unexpected perception in matters related to the planet’s principle, which later (along with Moon integration) transforms into a vital need to process and transmit the higher principle of the planet to others. At a high level, this may manifest as a public figure or prophet closely connected with national karma.
Conjunction with Mercury: Anxiety exists not only in the absence of thought, but in many cases also in its presence. Mercury imparts to the planet in conjunction a strong mental coloring, even when it is entirely unnecessary or undesirable for the person. For example, with Mercury-Venus conjunction, romantic relationships may contain so much calculation and rationality that any spontaneous feeling or living experience will be very short-lived, especially if Mercury is stronger than Venus. Unfortunately, mental coloring is not equivalent to reason, as it most often reduces to widespread superficial notions and clichés of collective consciousness and subconsciousness, which will actively influence the planet’s principle, strongly schematizing and trivializing it. The person will certainly feel this, but all attempts to escape such dead (each time in its own way) influence of Mercury on the planet through expanding the sphere of its manifestations (for example, seeking new lovers in the case of Venus) are doomed to failure, because the mind, although crude, is nevertheless flexible and can adapt in some way. Working through the conjunction primarily involves processing Mercury—i.e., becoming aware of the role and meaning of mental activity as an energetic flow and planetary principles that provide general direction without replacing them. This processing is complex, as it requires restructuring of thinking, abandoning rigid, linear social clichés, and shifting toward working with lighter and more flexible thought forms capable of adequate interaction between the Cosmos and the planet’s principle. For example, Mercury-Mars conjunction with a strong Mercury at a low level of processing produces not a person, but practically a robot, for whom any active action must first be mentally modeled in the head, completely unable to trust the feeling and logic of their immediate energetic expressions. Processing the aspect brings great creative abilities, manifesting as subtle and inventive indirect mental management of the planet’s principle at moments when it is necessary.
