Mercury-Venus

Overview: Mercury-Venus in tense alignments combines the love, beauty, pleasure and pleasantries of Venus with the voice, thought, correspondence and mercantilism associated with Mercury.

The challenges: A tendency to talk (mercury) about superficial things (venus). A sweet (venus) way of talking (mercury) that lacks sincerity.

The strengths: relaxed conversation (Mercury) among friends (Venus). the ability to perceive (Mercury) the beauty (Venus) of color, symmetry and composition. The ability to talk (Mercury) about art and beauty (venus). a poetic (venus) way of speaking (mercury). thinking (mercury) in terms of harmonies (venus).

Below are examples of well-known individuals born with this combination in their natal charts (an astrological birth chart is a symbolic map of the sky at the moment of birth). Observing how this combination appears in their lives can help us recognize it in our own. The more consciously we engage with these astrological alignments—or “aspects”—the more their underlying tensions can be integrated, allowing their strengths to emerge.

Please note: the expression of this archetypal tension, as seen in the lives and work of the people below, may reflect varying levels of integration.

• The Mercury-Venus combination in the chart of Heidi Klum can easily be seen in her role, for over a decade and a half, as a judge on the show Project Runway, in which it is her job to speak (Mercury) about beauty and fashion (Venus).

• The Mercury-Venus combination often combines speaking, communicating, and perceiving, all functions of the senses associated with Mercury, with beauty and art (Venus). In the chart of Siobhan Fahey, we can see the Mercury-Venus combination showing up in the singing of her top hit song “Venus,” with the band Bananarama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4-1ASpdT1Y