Aspects
Eros Opposition Mercury
Your need to think clearly and your erotic life-force sit across from each other, and the friction shows in how desire scrambles or sharpens your mind. You may lose your reason in the grip of passion, or over-intellectualize desire until the charge drains out, and you meet the seductive and the coolly detached who mirror both. The resolution is balance, not choice: let your mind give your passion language and discernment, and let desire keep your thinking alive and warm, so the head and the heat inform each other rather than one canceling the other.
Lean in — Let the mind give passion language without draining its heat.
Watch for — Lose your reason to desire, or analyze the charge to death.
- mind-vs-desire
- over-thinking
- balancing
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Treats Eros among the additional asteroids, its principle of erotic desire and aliveness as it meets the Mercury.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Eros-Mercury aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Eros-Mercury contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.