Conjunction Sun – Mercury Het Monster: Activity in the sphere of Mercury – new ideas, work, friendship. Inability to objectively assess oneself. If the conjunction is in Gemini, Aquarius, or Libra – great intellectual abilities. All efforts are usually crowned with success, although frequent obstacles come from powerful people. Burned Mercury – subjective thinking, stubbornness, often speech disorders. Wide conjunction (approx. 10°) – sharpness of mind and speech, talent in language, writing. Mercury behind the Sun – always difficulties with work, with government service, and if the 10th house is empty or afflicted, any career is excluded, service will bring no benefit.
Catherine Obье: Conjunction Sun – Mercury
Favorably aspected conjunction: integration of consciousness and discernment, self-expression of personality through intellectual communication, exchange of ideas. Poorly aspected conjunction: element of instability, nervousness, suggestibility. Note that in astrological tradition, when Mercury is in conjunction with the Sun, it is said to be burned by the Sun. This should be interpreted as follows: the closer Mercury is to the Sun, the more the individual’s “I” obscures mental abilities, i.e., the element of subjectivity. Mercury located far from the Sun (in semi-sextile, i.e., aspect of 30°), on the contrary, indicates objectivity.
A. Podvodny: Conjunction Sun – Mercury
Conjunction with the Sun: “Call yourself a mushroom – crawl into the cart.” Conjunction of a Planet with the Sun gives its manifestations a shade of imperativeness – at a high level of aspect integration. At a low level, imperativeness relates more to the necessity of processing the Planet. The Sun highlights the lower expressions of its principle and actualizes them, primarily through direct pressure. At a low level of Sun integration, it acts through rigid imperatives imposed upon the Planet, suppressing its creative impulse and forcing its principle to manifest within very narrowly defined boundaries, into which it fundamentally cannot fit, resulting in excessive inner tension and an explosion, with creativity manifesting absolutely, albeit in the form and trajectory of fragments. If the conjunction is unprocessed but harmoniously placed, these explosions will be more dangerous to the surrounding people, and the creative impulse of the Planet will manifest only through a path of rigidly egotistical consumption within the spheres corresponding to its principle. For example, an unprocessed conjunction of the Sun with Mars produces great but futile activity, which, however, seems extremely important and useful to the person themselves, and on the other hand, the ability to completely drain another’s energy, leaving the other person literally without strength and even a hint of gratitude.
Processing the conjunction (and the Sun) leads to a shift toward a higher egregore, where solar initiative moves beyond the order of strict command, becoming instead a pointer toward a desired direction of activity, and above all, attention. Then the interaction between the Sun and the Planet is significantly eased, and the Planet receives from the Sun a kind of weak magnetization, which serves to orient within complex (for the Planet) conditions when the optimal choice is not obvious.
Conjunction with Mercury: Anxiety not only from the absence of thought, but in many cases from its presence. Mercury imparts to the Planet in conjunction with it a strong mental coloring, even when this is entirely unnecessary and undesirable for the person, for example, in conjunction of Mercury with Venus, in love relationships there will be so much calculation and rationality that any immediate feeling and living sensation will not last long, especially if Mercury is stronger than Venus. Unfortunately, mental coloring is not equivalent to intelligence, since it most often reduces to widespread superficial notions and stereotypes 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 a dead (each time in its own way) influence of Mercury on the Planet by expanding the sphere of its manifestations (for example, seeking new lovers in the case of Venus) are doomed to failure, because the mind, though crude, is nevertheless flexible and can adapt somehow. Processing the conjunction proceeds primarily through working with Mercury, that is, becoming aware of the role and meaning of mental activity as an energy flow and planetary principles, which gives a general direction but does not replace them. Here the processing is complex, as it requires restructuring of thinking, rejecting heavy, linear social stereotypes and transitioning to work with lighter and more flexible thought-forms capable of adequate interaction between the Cosmos and the Planet’s principle. For example, conjunction of Mercury with Mars 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 modeled in the mind, completely unable to trust the feeling and logic of their immediate energetic expressions. Processing the aspect gives great creative abilities, manifesting as subtle and inventive indirect mental management of the Planet’s principle at those moments when it is necessary.
