☍ Opposition
Mercury opposite Ascendant
Mercury opposite the Ascendant places the mind and the spoken word on the side of the other and of the bond itself, facing the person's own image. There is a tension between the voice that comes from outside and the personal way of showing oneself. This angle asks for the integration of ideas from the surrounding environment with one's own way of being.
In a relationship
This opposition creates a communicative counterpoint between the two people, where one person's mind faces off against the other's way of presenting themselves. What it offers is complementarity: one person's ideas can broaden the other's perspective on themselves. What creates tension is that one person's way of thinking or speaking may clash with the other's image and style, producing some degree of misunderstanding. The work is to seek a balance between listening to the other and sustaining one's own voice. It asks that words add to identity rather than call it into question. When it is worked through, that polarity becomes an enriching dialogue in which each person contributes their own perspective. It is a contact that teaches the integration of another's voice with one's own sense of self, as a mutual learning.
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