Mercury square Moon

Mercury square Moon - astrological aspect

Astrology aspects - Mercury square Moon The square aspect between the Moon and Mercury indicates inner tension, stress, and frustration, and a need for a radical inner adaptation to rebalance these two conflicting energies. Conscious change is required to overcome conflict between your conscious mind and protective lunar habit patterns.

One likely imbalance is an unconscious lunar domination of your rational mind, where thought processes are subverted by deep emotions and feelings, with a consequence that decisions, judgements, or objective evalutaion are influenced by emotionally charged attitudes. Such unconscious attitudes and values - possibly absorbed during early childhood or from parents - can condition present choices, where issues of the past still dominate your current life.

Simply put, head and heart can be in constant conflict within you; decisions may be made according to which is dominant at any given time. This temporary supremacy can vary, like a pendulum movement, and may also be related to the sign, house, and element that each planet is in. It may be that one planet consistently dominates, and the other one becomes repressed. If Mercury dominates, then the Moon activity can sink deeper into the unconscious mind, influencing you more subtly and pervaisvely from a hidden position where the emotional coloration is less noticeable to you than to others. If Mercury is repressed, then rationality and logic may diminish, and choices may be influenced by insistent emotions, instincts, and feelings; habit patterns may often be security-biased. Sometimes you may observe that, when attempting to restore inner balance, Mercury begins to excessively rationalize feelings and emotions. If this is allowed to persist, you may start to deny the validity of your emotions and feelings, and in so doing repress your Moon sensitivity, creating another imbalance.

Inner tension can reflect insecurity and self-doubt, creating highly nervous activity prompted by disharmony between the personality's conscious and unconscious levels. Sometimes this can manifest as psychosomatic illness, especially nervous illness, digestive problems, and diseases related to the activity of body fluids. Another problem could emerge from self-centeredness and separative ways of living and expression. You may rely on fixed attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, and values for a sense of stable security; but these can also create relationship difficulties if you act inflexibly. Whenever someone else's opinion differs from yours, you may react with aggressive defensiveness, without first considering the value of another point of view. You hate suggestions from others that you may be wrong, as this makes you feel insecure. Your response to this is often defiant and compulsively assertive. Paranoid feelings often accompany this reaction; and you can be very touchy emotionally, often triggering off misunderstandings and communication breakdown.

With strangers you always feel insecure and on the defensive; even with closer friends, acquaintances, and family this pattern persists, although with les belligerence. Yet even in the family home, you react against having to change to accommodate others. Self-centeredly, you believe they should change to suit you;; the fact that they may not wish to do so is apparently of little concern to you.

Yet you can often communicate quite well with those with whom you feel safe, often revealing a touching if slightly immature and sentimental emotionality about such relationships. Your hidden dependency on such intimates may not always be realized or acknowledged.

Relationships would improve if you were less self-preoccupied, seeing others' needs as being as important as your own, and giving to others what you are so busy taking for yourself. Attention needs to be directed externally for you to become aware that others have equal needs and difficulties. Through mutual support, all can benefit and have a more enjoyable life.

Sometimes your needs and concerns can become obsessive; and you rarely see that this represents immaturity and lack of integration. Ways that you evade making necessary inner changes can include obsessions with trivia and matters of inconsequence, continual chatter, which can create unsatisfactory relationships and wastes energy instead of using it positively to change internal stress through self-understanding.

Mercury is often represessed by a dominant Moon whenever issues of personal security dominate life, much like a demanding infant wanting immediate satisfaction. Because of this, you can lack rationality and objectivity, as noted in signs of immaturity, a lack of self-understanding, and a surfeit of emotional bias. Sometimes your ability to discriminate between reality and illusion, fact and fiction, is weak. You can often be full of unresolved questions, uncertain of what you really think and feel about life and people, even though you defend whatever thoughts you are presenting.

There can be a state of 'life-confusion' which persists until inner transformation is achieved; dissolving several internal barriers between yourself and others is essential. This can prove beneficial and help to release previously unexpressed positive, constructive energies. Frustrations can gradually dissolve if you direct energy toward the path of growth and self-development.

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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