Mercury contacts

What the tradition holds about one person's Mercury meeting a planet in someone else's chart. The older sources speak in families, a conjunction, a trine or sextile, a square or opposition, so each reading below covers its whole family.

2 readings curated here, each traced to a work and a page you can open for free.

Mercury and Sun

Opposition: Who you are and how you talk pull in different directions between you, and you can come to dislike each other.; William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), Book III, p. 638 read itJames Wilson, A Complete Dictionary of Astrology (London, 1819), s.v. "Sympathy", p. 381 read it

Mercury and Mars

Opposition: What drives you and how you talk pull in different directions between you, so you can easily rub each other up the wrong way.; William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), Book III, p. 638 read itJames Wilson, A Complete Dictionary of Astrology (London, 1819), s.v. "Sympathy", p. 381 read it

Which of these you two have

The synastry page lists every contact between two charts from each person's date, time and place of birth. Nothing is transmitted; it is calculated on your own device.

For what the five angles are, see aspects; for the same pairings inside one chart, see natal aspects.