☌ Conjunction
Mercury conjunction South Node
The mind runs on the old track. Associated with real expertise and with explanations that have not been re-examined in years.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ☿ ☋
What these two are about together
Thinking and what is already known. Associated with fluency in something learned long ago, and with the difference between knowing a subject and still being curious about it.
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
The mind runs on the old track. Associated with real expertise and with explanations that have not been re-examined in years.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Mercury and South Node at other angles
- Mercury semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition South NodeDirectly 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 South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.