In these texts, A is the person whose Sun is read and B the person whose Mercury receives it.
Mercury represents the way we communicate: gestures, tone of voice, how many words we use and the way we link ideas.
Facilitating contact
Communication can be the first bridge between the two. Even if contact begins through social media and they haven’t yet met in person, talking awakens the wish to continue the encounter.
That pleasure in conversation can open the way to romance, depending on the couple’s other affinities.
Obstructing contact
A may feel that B’s words challenge their pride. B, for their part, may insist that A accept their arguments. This forms a circle of arguments over who is right.
The wear and tear can appear over trivial matters, even when there is compatibility in other areas. Communication takes up so much space in daily life that a repeated difficulty here ends up affecting the enjoyment of their other meeting points.
Aspects of the Sun
The Sun represents personal radiance, the way we defend our own territory and the conditions under which we allow other people to come close. It relates to behaviors we feel are our own, even when we don’t recognize having learned them from those around us.
Sometimes a family is surprised by a reaction and wonders where that way of acting came from. That surprise invites us to look at what we need in order to let someone into our space, why we find it easy to approach certain people and why other presences feel threatening. It also lets us ask ourselves how others perceive us.
When the traits of the Sun match what was learned in inventory 1, their expression may feel more natural. If they differ from what the family or the culture expects, we may try to resemble an image we don’t feel is our own. In that search for acceptance, the “masks” we have spoken about appear.
In your love relationship that question comes back: how much room you have to show yourself as you are, and how much you feel you must play a role in order to be accepted.
The intensity of the following aspects is read together with the other factors of the synastry, which can reinforce or moderate how they show up.