Aspects
Eris Sextile Mercury
There is a workable opening between your mind and the Eris principle of clarifying discord, one that rewards initiative. When you put your thinking toward naming the excluded truth constructively, mind and clarifying discord cooperate, making you good at raising the hard question in a way that opens rather than wrecks. This is a door you walk through, not a current that carries you. But take the step of voicing what the consensus avoids, with care and a way forward, and you find thought and clarifying discord reinforce each other, so that breaking a false agreement with honest, well-placed words becomes a real gift rather than an argument you regret.
Lean in — Voice what the consensus avoids, with care and a way forward.
Watch for — Swallow the inconvenient truth the discussion needs to hear.
- constructive-naming
- opportunity
- clarifying-truth
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.