Aspects
Mercury Sextile Moon
Modern
Your feelings and your thinking cooperate, so you can talk about your inner life clearly and bring warmth to your ideas. It is an easy, useful balance. The catch is taking it for granted and not developing it into a real strength. The growth is using the gift on purpose, in writing, teaching, or counsel. At your best you make the emotional world legible for yourself and everyone around you.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
A sixty-degree aspect joins the two in easy agreement, and Ptolemy counts the sextile among the harmonious configurations. Between the Moon and Mercury it lets emotion and intellect cooperate: the native can name a feeling and feel a thought without strain. The gift is easy emotional communication and a balanced head-and-heart; the cost is that the ease can go unused, the gift for expression left untrained.
Lean in — Put the easy head-heart balance to deliberate use.
Watch for — Leave the gift for expression untrained because it is easy.
- communicative
- balanced
- perceptive
Sources
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, I.13Counts the sextile among the harmonious, agreeing configurations.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Moon-Mercury sextile as easy cooperation of feeling and intellect.