Aspects
Ascendant Opposition Mercury
Your mind comes alive through other people. With Mercury opposite your Ascendant, falling on the Descendant, you tend to think best in dialogue, sharpening your ideas against another's and meeting partnership as a meeting of minds. You are a natural at conversation, negotiation, and seeing a question from the other side. The gift is genuine intellectual exchange and an instinct for communication in relationship. The shadow is dependence on a sounding board, talking yourself out of your own view to match a partner's, or needing others to think with. The lifelong work is to carry your own clear thinking into dialogue, so exchange sharpens your mind rather than replacing it.
Lean in — Carry your own clear thinking into every dialogue.
Watch for — Talk yourself out of your own view to match a partner's.
- mercury
- ascendant
- opposition
- relationship
Sources
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Mercury's opposition to the Ascendant as a defining statement about how the mind meets the persona and the outer self.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Gives the modern natal reading of Mercury's opposition to the Ascendant as a core feature of the birth chart's mind.
- Carter, The Astrological Aspects (1930)Carter sets out the classic natal character of Mercury's opposition to the Ascendant in the native's nature.