Sun-Mercury
Overview: Sun-Mercury in tense alignments combines our central identity (Sun) with Mercury's tendency toward movement, thought, speech, correspondence, or communication of any kind. The archetype of the Sun can at times also be associated with the father, as exemplified below.
The challenges: the tendency to overstimulate our minds (mercury) in service of our will (sun). the tendency to feel that our will (Sun) is at times heady and cooly intellectual (Mercury).
The strengths: This combination can show up in life as the communication (Mercury) of our will and identity (Sun) as having importance, and feeling that we have to shine a light (Sun) on an important message (Mercury).
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 Sun-Mercury combination in the chart of French politician Marine Le Pen can be seen in her constant need to address the spoken points (Mercury) of her father (Sun), right wing extremist politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, so much so that her own identity (Sun) as a politician is inextricably linked to the political message (Mercury) of her father (Sun): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marine-Le-Pen Other ways in which this combination shows up in her life include writing (Mercury) an autobiography (Sun), and being considered the spokesperson (Sun-Mercury) for Euroskepticism and the National Front of France.
The Sun-Mercury combination in the chart of actor Gerard Butler can be seen in roles he plays involving speaking and writing, such as P.S. I Love You, a movie in which the identity (Sun) of his character is based on letters he has written (Mercury); and The Ugly Truth a movie in which he plays a talk-radio show (Mercury) host (Sun).
The Sun-Mercury combination can often times be seen as the identity (Sun) as a writer (Mercury) as can be seen in authors Neil Gaiman, born with this combination in his natal chart, and Clive Barker, also born with this combination in his natal chart.