Sun and Mercury aspects
The Sun and Mercury never stand far apart, so the conjunction is the only major aspect they make. How close they sit says how tightly your thinking is bound to your sense of who you are.
You think out loud about yourself. Ask your opinion on almost anything and you tell it as a story about you, and mean it kindly.
Mercury is the mind, the voice and the way you learn; the Sun is the self it serves. Seen from Earth, Mercury never strays far from the Sun, so the two always share a sign or stand in neighbouring ones, and a conjunction is the only major aspect they ever make. What varies is how close.
Sun conjunct Mercury
With Mercury close to the Sun, your mind and your identity are bound together. You think about what matters to you, you speak with conviction, and you identify with your ideas, so a criticism of your thinking lands as a criticism of you. You are articulate about your own life, persuasive about your plans and quick to put a feeling into words.
Close or wide
The tradition looked hard at the distance. Very near the Sun, a planet was called combust, burned by its light and blind to itself; at the exact heart of the Sun, within a sliver of a degree, it was cazimi, riding in the king’s chariot and at its strongest. A Mercury further off has more room to look at your life from outside, and more distance from its own opinions.
Ahead or behind
Mercury is always a little ahead of the Sun in the zodiac or a little behind it. Behind, it rose before the Sun as a morning star, and the old books gave such a mind speed and eagerness; ahead, an evening star, it thinks a thing through before saying it. Your chart shows which yours is.
How common is each?
Seen from Earth, Mercury never stands more than 27.8° from the Sun, so the conjunction is the only major aspect between them.
| Aspect | How common |
|---|---|
| Sun conjunct Mercury | about three births in ten |
| Sun sextile Mercury | never |
| Sun square Mercury | never |
| Sun trine Mercury | never |
| Sun opposite Mercury | never |
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.