posted January 21, 2008 05:50 PM              

I have both of these natally as well.

posted January 22, 2008 03:35 PM            

However, I went and tried mix and matching the birthdates in my astrodata of people who do not even know each other, and there still was that sun mercury aspect...or at least the sun and the mercury were PRETTY close to each other (maybe not enough to make an ASPECT sometimes..but they were quite near the proximity of the other).

Now, I SUSPECT that the reason for this is that I have read that the Sun and Mercury never travel too far away from the other. I know that a composite does not show the actual position of the planet, but rather the position where the energy between the same planet in one chart and the one in the other meet halfway, BUT still, this fact should play a role, right?

Have you ever heard that your mercury can only be in the sign of your sun or in the sign coming right after it? For exmaple, A Gemini Sun chart can only have mercury in either Gemini or Cancer..but no other sign. A Cancer sun person, can only have their mercury in Cancer, or in Leo. I'm not positive about this, but it's what I remember reading in CafeAstrology.com about the sign your mercury is in. Perhaps I will look at it later.

posted January 22, 2008 04:02 PM              

I just checked composites for me+mom, dad, sister, brother, several best friends, an ex boyfriend, and the current love interest and they ALL have very close to exact SUN-MERCURY conjunctions..EXCEPT for me+dad.. My dad and I can communicate but there is something off or weird about it. We definitely do not communicate the way I do with the others.

Also - DainBramaged, my Mercury is in Sag. and my Sun is in Cap...

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Capricorn sun / Scorpio rising / Sagittarius moon

posted January 22, 2008 04:12 PM              

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Now, I SUSPECT that the reason for this is that I have read that the Sun and Mercury never travel too far away from the other.

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posted January 23, 2008 12:46 AM            

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That's correct. Sun conjunct Mercury & Sun conjunct Venus are some of the most common aspects found in a composite chart (for the aforementioned reason), and one shouldn't really put too much emphasis on them.

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Yes, that sounds about right. Except the mercury-sun conjunction comes up WAY far more often than sun-venus aspects. Could you say the reason for that? If you don't know..that's ok, too.

Anyway, I thought that the sen-venus aspects in the composite chart were supposed to indicate "a relationship based on lve...and that even if you annoy each other sometimes, you still love each other in the end"

So was it all--a lie? I mean, is it just not as important as the description for astro-Clik Partner in astro.com makes it seem?

Take care.

posted January 23, 2008 01:06 AM            

Also, my composites frequently have an aspect pattern: grand trine, kite, t-square, etc. I have a t-square with my SO, but if I include Juno, it becomes a grand cross. Gulp. (Edit: Did a little more research. The t-square is, by far, my favorite composite pattern apparently. That one came up the most. Some charts even had two of them.)