Aspects
Mercury Opposition Sappho
Your need to think and communicate plainly and your lyric, expressive nature sit across from each other, and the friction shows in how you speak and write. You may dress thought in so much style that the meaning blurs, or flatten your natural artistry into dry plainness, and you meet the merely clever and the purely poetic alike. The resolution is balance, not choice: let your clear mind give your expression structure and your lyric heart give your words beauty, so clarity and music inform each other rather than one drowning the other, and what you say is both true and moving.
Lean in — Let clarity give your words structure and beauty give them life.
Watch for — Bury the meaning in style, or flatten the natural music out.
- clarity-vs-style
- expression
- balancing
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Treats Sappho among the additional asteroids, its principle of artistry and romantic friendship as it meets the Mercury.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Sappho-Mercury aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Sappho-Mercury contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.