Moon and Mercury aspects
The Moon and Mercury in aspect describe how your feelings and your thoughts talk to each other. Together, in step or at odds, they set how easily you put a mood into words.
You know exactly how you feel the moment you have said it out loud, and not a second before.
The Moon is your feelings and needs; Mercury is your mind and your voice. An aspect between them connects the two, and its angle says whether they speak the same language.
Moon conjunct Mercury
Your thoughts are coloured by your moods, and your moods by your thoughts. You are a natural storyteller with a memory for feeling: the way a room smelled, what someone’s voice did on one word. A conjunction like this makes you talk your feelings through, and you stay restless until you have.
Moon trine or sextile Mercury
Head and heart are on speaking terms. You explain how you feel without drama and listen to others with real sympathy, so people come to you to talk things over. The trine makes it effortless; the sextile makes it a skill you sharpen.
Moon square or opposite Mercury
What you think and what you feel argue. You overthink your feelings, or your moods cloud your judgement, and in a quarrel you say the clever thing instead of the true one. The square puts the debate inside your head; the opposition between you and the people you talk to. Writing things down settles it, and you end up unusually good at understanding both sides of a heart.
How common is each?
Over the years the two meet in all five, some more often than others.
| Aspect | How common |
|---|---|
| Moon conjunct Mercury | about one birth in eighteen |
| Moon sextile Mercury | about one birth in thirteen |
| Moon square Mercury | about one birth in ten |
| Moon trine Mercury | about one birth in ten |
| Moon opposite Mercury | about one birth in eighteen |
Measured every six hours from 1920 to 2030: the share of births whose chart shows each aspect between them, within the orbs every chart here is cast with.
Find your own aspects
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and every aspect between your planets, with how close each one is.