☌ Conjunction
Mercury conjunction Mars
Quick and pointed. Read as decisiveness, debating ability and wit, with a traditional caution that the tongue is a weapon here whether or not it is meant to be.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ☿ ♂
What these two are about together
Mind and drive. How fast thinking becomes speech, and how sharp that speech is.
What a conjunction does
A conjunction is the tightest relationship in a chart: two planets sitting at effectively the same point in the zodiac, rising, setting and moving together. The tradition does not read it as good or bad on its own. It reads it as fusion. Whatever the two planets each govern stops being two separate concerns and starts being one, and it is often the placement a person is least able to see in themselves, because there is no distance from which to look at it.
How it reads
Quick and pointed. Read as decisiveness, debating ability and wit, with a traditional caution that the tongue is a weapon here whether or not it is meant to be.
In practice
Strongest of the five, and the most dependent on which two bodies are involved. A conjunction of two comfortable planets is usually experienced as a natural talent; a conjunction of two difficult ones is usually experienced as a single unavoidable subject that keeps coming round.
What to watch for
The absence of separation. Whatever these two do, they do at once, which makes it hard to tell which of the two is driving.
The two planets
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Mercury and Mars at other angles
- Mercury semi-sextile MarsThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square MarsForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile MarsSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile MarsSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square MarsNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine MarsA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate MarsA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx MarsA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition MarsDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Mercury and Mars actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.