Mercury conjunct Neptune

Mercury conjunct Neptune - astrological aspect

Astrology aspects - Mercury conjunct Neptune With the Mercury-Neptune contacts, it is the mind level that is primarily sensitised and activated, so that the imaginative quality is emphasised and the main focus of life appreciation is through mental receptivity. The conjunction indicates a channel between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind, and both the energy and information flowing through this conduit need to be carefully integrated if a variety of imbalances and distortions is not to be created.

The faculty of imagination will be highly stimulated and developed, and this will certainly require appropriate channels to be focused on so that other problems of perception are not created. The issue of mental realities is one which can make you unsettled, especially as you can tend to make mistakes in judgement based on misinterpreting facts and suggestive information. You have a mental process that can attempt to re-create experiences into more acceptable forms for personal absorption, a style of selective manipulation which excludes aspects of reality that you refuse to acknowledge. If this process becomes a regular pattern of mental behaviour, then you are liable to create a distinctly personal reality that is a fusion of the real and unreal which can pose additional challenges when it comes to disentangling them. This is often amplified by a tendency to be mentally escapist, avoiding the possibility of any painful experiences and situations by refusing to become involved in things.

Relationships are likely to be characterised by over-idealism of lovers, either through having the mental illusion of a perfect lover that is unlikely to exist, and comparing everyone to this perfect lover and so ensuring that they fail to match up, or by wrapping lovers in over-glamorised ideals, elevating them to a mental pedestal and so ensuring that at some time they will inevitably topple off. Your mental images will be shattered, yet this does not deny the real experiences of disappointment and disillusionment that you will suffer... and continue to suffer unless you become more realistic in your evaluations within intimate relationships. Part of this process can arise from the sense of personal inadequacy that you feel and which you try to alleviate by imitation of others you respect or sometimes through attempts to bask in the glow of reflected glamour by associating with publicly famous people, which allows inner fantasies to develop.

You are likely to have some creative and artistic talent, and your cultural appreciation will be developed. Your ideal type of employment will offer channels for such forms of personal expression, and it may be that you do develop towards writing, arts, photography or film as you have a gift for visual imagination which also has some inner content. Your approach will be intellectual and mentally resonant, rather than more emotionally evocative as with the Moon contacts. Training may be necessary to help draw out these talents, and your main talent may be related to giving an intellectual substance and context to artistic creations, as a critic does, although there you may need to be careful regarding a degree of intolerance in your attitudes.

Another area of life that could be very attractive to you is that of a mental fascination with mystery, romantic illusions, the worlds of psychics, mystics and psychology: the realms of the mind. Because of that close channel between the unconscious mind and conscious mind, you may experience serving as a conscious channel between the two, with information, such as personal examples of telepathic communication or prophetic dreams and visions, being transmitted to the rational mind. If you have properly come to terms with reforging reality into acceptable patterns and have broken free of that impulse, and have a real understanding of how your own psyche functions by integrating the transpersonal planets into a functioning unified consciousness, then moving towards less tangible realms of the mind may be safe for you. However, if those intitial steps have not been made, then following your own fascinations into the inner worlds may not be so wise owing to that uncontrolled active imagination, and you could retreat inward to inhabit a nebulous dream world of your own making. So ensure that you carefully evaluate any ideas, impulses and motivations that enter your mind to clarify whether or not they are self-delusory or actual inner guidance. Such discrimination can be difficult to achieve, but it is essential to avoid becoming lost on the inner pathless path.

All astrological aspects:

Astrological aspects definitions

Conjunction - 1st harmonic aspect
Opposition - 2nd harmonic aspect
Trine - 3rd harmonic aspect
Square - 4th harmonic aspect
Quintile - 5th harmonic aspect
Sextile - 6th harmonic aspect
Septile - 7th harmonic aspect
Semisquare - 8th harmonic aspect
Novile - 9th harmonic aspect

All aspects explained

Sun's aspects
Moon's aspects
Mercury's aspects
Venus' aspects
Mars' aspects
Jupiter's aspects
Saturn's aspects
Uranus' aspects
Neptune's aspects
Pluto's aspects
North Node's aspects
Ascendant's aspects
Midheaven's aspects

Mercury's aspects

Mercury's aspects to the Sun

Mercury conjunct Sun

Mercury's aspects to the Moon

Mercury conjunct Moon
Mercury sextile Moon
Mercury square Moon
Mercury trine Moon
Mercury quincunx Moon
Mercury opposition Moon

Mercury's aspects to Venus

Mercury conjunct Venus
Mercury sextile Venus

Mercury's aspects to Mars

Mercury conjunct Mars
Mercury sextile Mars
Mercury square Mars
Mercury trine Mars
Mercury quincunx Mars
Mercury opposition Mars

Mercury's aspects to Jupiter

Mercury conjunct Jupiter
Mercury sextile Jupiter
Mercury square Jupiter
Mercury trine Jupiter
Mercury quincunx Jupiter
Mercury opposition Jupiter

Mercury's aspects to Saturn

Mercury conjunct Saturn
Mercury sextile Saturn
Mercury square Saturn
Mercury trine Saturn
Mercury quincunx Saturn
Mercury opposition Saturn

Mercury's aspects to Uranus

Mercury conjunct Uranus
Mercury sextile Uranus
Mercury square Uranus
Mercury trine Uranus
Mercury quincunx Uranus
Mercury opposition Uranus

Mercury's aspects to Neptune

Mercury conjunct Neptune
Mercury sextile Neptune
Mercury square Neptune
Mercury trine Neptune
Mercury quincunx Neptune
Mercury opposition Neptune

Mercury's aspects to Pluto

Mercury conjunct Pluto
Mercury sextile Pluto
Mercury square Pluto
Mercury trine Pluto
Mercury quincunx Pluto
Mercury opposition Pluto

Mercury's aspects to the Ascendant

Mercury conjunct Ascendant
Mercury sextile Ascendant
Mercury square Ascendant
Mercury trine Ascendant
Mercury quincunx Ascendant
Mercury opposition Ascendant

Mercury's aspects to the Midheaven

Mercury conjunct Midheaven
Mercury sextile Midheaven
Mercury square Midheaven
Mercury trine Midheaven
Mercury quincunx Midheaven
Mercury opposition Midheaven

Mercury's aspects to the North Node

Mercury conjunct North Node
Mercury sextile North Node
Mercury square North Node
Mercury trine North Node
Mercury opposition North Node

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