Aspects
Mercury Square Sappho
Your thinking and your lyric, expressive nature keep clashing. You may reach for the beautiful phrase at the cost of the accurate one, take criticism of your expression to heart, or feel torn between speaking plainly and speaking artfully, doing neither well. Mind and artistry get crossed, so the very gift for expression also trips up clear communication. This square asks for action, not a truce: to let beauty serve truth rather than replace it, to hear feedback on your work without crumbling, and to keep refining until style and substance pull together, until artful and honest expression stop fighting in you.
Lean in — Let beauty serve truth, and hear feedback without crumbling.
Watch for — Reach for the lovely phrase at the cost of the accurate one.
- style-vs-truth
- sensitivity-to-critique
- integration
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.