MOON CONJUNCT MERCURY

A conjunction or conjunct symbol is an aspect that emphasizes and brings together the energies of the planets involved. Conjunctions focus and intensify the energy much like a laser beam on an exact point in your chart. These planets have their own uniqueness and when tag-teamed their energy is intensified even more.

It is important to understand that the Moon rules the home and the family. It also rules the emotions, feelings, sensitivities and moods, while Mercury rules the reasoning and conscious mind that forms conclusions. The Moon is emotional, while Mercury is intellectual. Therefore, on an intellectual level, one is well aware of how their emotions affect others, which could easily dictate their responses. The impact of this conjunction would make an individual sensitive to what others think of them.

This aspect is intuitive (Moon) and mindful/thoughtful (Mercury). Thoughts and speech are strongly linked with your emotions. This conjunction will make one's choice of words very interesting. Since this conjunction causes one to speak with feeling, then it can be very helpful to stimulate the creative juices, especially writing, communicating, sales and marketing. This gives the ability to sense other people's thoughts. One may also give a lot of thought (Mercury) to health, food, fitness and dietary concerns because Mercury rules both Gemini (mental abilities) and Virgo (health and daily regimen.)

When this conjunction has other aspects afflicting it, then the feelings will have the upper hand on reasoning, which can make one hypersensitive to criticism or to what others think of them.