Aspects
Eris Quincunx Mercury
Your knack for naming the uncomfortable truth never quite fits polite conversation, so you keep adjusting between speaking the disruptive thing and keeping the peace. The gift is a mind that will not collude in pretense. The shadow is contrarianism for its own sake. Keep tuning when to name the hard truth and when to hold.
Lean in — Name the hard truth when it serves, hold when it does not.
Watch for — Contradict for its own sake.
- discord
- truth
- adjustment
Sources
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Gives the archetypal field of Eris, the discord that exposes the excluded, as it meets the Mercury.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Eris-Mercury aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Eris-Mercury contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.