MERCURY SQUARE PLUTO

This aspect is a seat of inner tensions. The tension of the square gives us motivation. Squares are dynamic aspects that give us the drive to succeed. What begins as an inner problem is overcome or accepted, and then becomes a door to understanding.

Mercury rules the mind, mental energy and the power of mental pursuasion. Mercury is the sign of mental telepathy, the thinking mind and things compart-mental-ized in the mind. Pluto rules transformation through destruction, only to end up in reconstruction. Pluto is powerful and behaves like plutonium, where it completely destroys only to rebuild anew. Pluto levels one thing to cause something else to rise up out of the ashes, just like the phoenix-rising arises from the ashes. Pluto destructs in order to reconstruct and there is where the transformation takes place.

You have probably heard, "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all." It really is better that you adopt this motto when this aspect is present because it can literally tear someone's world apart in one brutal sentence. Once the word or phrase is spoken, then jury has heard it and it will be hard to take it back. There are no take-backs with this aspect. Read more in my Astrology Aspects eBook - click the graphic below!