This is an easy aspect showing cooperation between two planets which leads to opportunity. It has a positive blending effect on the planets. Sextiles are considered a "soft" or "easy" aspects that reflect the planets involved. They have a way of delivering you an opportunity. It's as if the phone is ringing or there is a knock at the door. Again, it is your choice to answer the opportunity. Opportunities can reveal themselves under the strangest of circumstances.
It is important to understand that Mercury rules the reasoning and conscious mind that forms conclusions. Mercury is intellectual, enjoys learning, teaches and is communicative. Uranus is the planet of a sudden change in circumstance, much like a lightning strike. Uranus also represents innovation, invention and independence. It literally strikes out and strikes out on its own, like lightning. Uranus is unconventional and electrifying; thereby bringing about sudden change in an instant, which can show up as being erratic.
This is one fast communicator. You may have run into an individual with this aspect and they are easy to spot because they are wide awake, they move around quickly, talk fast and probably drive fast. These people have people to see and places to go. This is a fabulous aspect for an individual in sales because Mercury rules sales and Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury. The individual with this aspect is quick-witted, with a clever handle on how to use words. This aspect also bestows quick flashes of intuition and ideas. The mind is moving a mile a minute.
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