5 Things to Watch For as Mercury and Mars Conjoin in Capricorn

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to take another look at Mercury's upcoming conjunction to Mars in the sign of Capricorn, which is happening this week; we're going to do so from the standpoint of a variety of different things that tend to come up when Mercury and Mars get together around words, speech, language and communication broadly speaking.

I think this is a good transit to look at in terms of the specific ways that mind-thought words and speech communication tend to come up as subjects within ourselves and our relationships. When Mercury gets together with Mars because the two of them together create these very predictable patterns that you will probably recognize some of the ones we're going to talk about; if not now, you will, as the week goes on, and so these are not just patterns that you may notice, but also some different ways of working with these patterns, some different ways to think about words and language through the filter of Mercury, Mars, especially in exalted Mars and Capricorn, both in a very earthy place too.

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Alright, so let's take a look at the transit first, and then I'm going to say five things about words that tend to come up when Mercury and Mars get together in any sign. But we'll also kind of focus a little bit on the uniqueness of this earthy exalted Mars and cat sign of Capricorn and so forth. So here you can see the two planets are coming together. So the two planets come together in their conjunction, really on Friday, January 24, into Saturday, January 27, then they start to separate a little bit, and they'll both hit trines to Uranus, which we'll be looking at next week. This is a powerful combination of planets that are getting together really as early as you can start to see them coming together at the beginning of this week.

Here we are on Tuesday, and you can see there are just a couple of degrees apart. So you will have been feeling this all week, and the separation within three degrees takes them forward to about the middle of next week.

So definitely a strong astrological transit that you should be taking note of that you probably are noticing, I should say. So anyway, I want to talk about five things about words in the language. You could broadly say communication or speech, words, and thoughts that tend to arise when these two planets get together.

It is especially notable that Mercury is conjoining Mars in a Saturn-ruled sign, earthy, and with an exalted Mars also in Saturn's earthy sign. This tends to produce more distinct, sharper, noticeable concrete, and practical expressions of Mercury and Mars in some ways; what that means is that you'll notice them more, you'll notice them more because it's like when archetypal combinations come together in the sign of Earth in some ways, they show themselves almost like a 3-D object right in front of you, that you just can't miss.

When things come into Earth, there's a way in which it's a little subtler when it's water, and it's sometimes a little bit more emotional when it's fire. Sometimes, it's very passionate, and it's about the will and desire, and when it's in the air, it might be about ideas. Now when comes into Earth, it's like it often manifests in terms of actual the actual sort of physics of the situations that you're in, and that you're dealing with in the literal tangible moving parts and so forth.

So, you may actually observe that any of these qualities are present under any Mars Mercury transit, opposition square conjunction, especially, but I think that there's a case to be made with an exalted Mars both in a kind of various structured formal place and Capricorn very earthy, that you will probably notice them a little bit more, they may pop a little bit more, as astrologers like to say.

So anyway, here are five things about words that you may notice coming up this week as Mercury and Mars get together. One is that there are words that clearly hurt people, and there are words that clearly heal, and sometimes, it takes a Mercury-Mars conjunction to understand the difference between constructive speech versus destructive speech. Constructive thoughts and constructive communication versus destructive, and that is maybe just 1-A in the astrological textbook for Mercury and Mars. Mercury and Mars will often come together as pointed, edgy, harsh, sharp, and abrasive thoughts, words, and communication.

On the other hand, it's amazing how, especially, I think, in a Saturn-ruled sign where there's a lot of martial restraint from Mars and Capricorn, it is a place where Mars is not as fiery and wild as it is, say, in Aries or even Scorpio. Scorpio, there's a stable quality to in its own way. But it's different because it's water.

But anyway, when you see this, you can also have this very refined and mature understanding that my words are affecting people, and almost like growing up, I have a greater sense of responsibility or maturity that can come forth in how we speak or communicate. These are maybe the most obvious things that come about around words and language speech.

The second one is word policing, and I love this because it's like clockwork. So, I started noticing the podcasts that I listened to. It's like a sports podcast for Minnesota sports teams, and they started having this big debate word policing in the comment section, and, you know, it was interesting, and then the actual hosts of the show actually addressed it and did their best to like sort out what was going on and, and anyway, it doesn't, it doesn't so much matter. This was a very low-level, not-so-controversial example of word policing, or word and thought policing, let's call it.

I thought it was interesting because I noticed it as the two planets are coming together right now. So it's like, wow, there it is. I got someone. I mean, actually, this has happened in the past too. But I will get sometimes people saying, oh, you know, there's just one word you use that I didn't like, or you said, hit that like button or smash the like button or something like that, and that was violent. You know, I didn't like that. Like, okay, it's interesting. I get it. I can understand a lot of the times I understand when people try to police words, you know, in, let's say, one of my videos or so on social media or something.

There'll be times where I'll go, oh, yeah, I didn't see that. Thank you, you know, and I make a shift, and there are other times where I'm like, yeah, no, not can't do that one can't ride with you there that feels authoritarian and controlling and narrow-minded and inflexible, and sort of intolerant. It's funny how there can be; you could find both right now; you could find that you're advocating for someone or something by means of constructive criticism and offering some feedback, especially feedback about communication words and languages and language.

For example, there are always changes happening in the medical diagnostic language. How do we speak to someone who has a particular condition? What is the particular language that we use to describe someone who's, you know, has a particular diagnosis or what have you? So even as I'm talking about, I'm going on. So it's like, there's, there's gonna be times where, despite the fact that the change has been made for a very long time, some people are just ignorant or unaware, or they're just stubbornly ignorant and defiant and like not making a change that's actually about, you know, increased sensitivity or something.

So you get this kind of word policing or word advocacy or word activism, and some of it is, you know, truly about refining and sensitizing our use of words, and sometimes it's about being domineering and righteous. So you have to watch for that. It's something that can come up around this transit, for sure, for better or worse.

Number three is symbolic listening. This is actually something that I just wrote quite a bit about for the astrological counseling program that we just started this month at nightlight for the advanced students in our programs. Symbolic listening is interesting because there's something marked Tyrion Mars, which is a combination of slowing down a bit on Earth and the control of Mars, Capricorn, Saturn rulership, and so forth.

But it's a notoriously fast placement. It's like pumping the gas pedal. It's fast-moving and action-packed. It's like the movies the Fast and the Furious. Mercury and Mars is a fast car, you know, it's a fast muscle, what do they call that the twitchy muscles, you know, it's the dynamic athlete who can run under a 4.4sec 40. So, as something that's very, very fast, one of the things that can happen is there's this kind of inability to control speech; it's more impulsive or quick and decisive, and that can be really good when it comes to executive thinking and functioning, like having to make quick, sharp, strong, bold decisions that are like, you know, calculated, but also quick, fantastic combination for that kind of thing.

However, most of the deepest and most meaningful things to the soul often come with deeper listening. So whether it was, let's say, you're sitting in conversation with a friend, if you're always just thinking in terms of what you want to say next, or just immediate responses and reactions to what someone is saying, you know, it might be fun, you could have fun, I'm not saying you couldn't, because I'm not trying to police how you communicate. But have you ever just really deeply listened to someone talking and just emptied and open your mind and your heart? It's amazing what will glimmer or shine through when you listen without that kind of, I mean, like I said, almost like a coffee shop.

Mercury-Mars is like a couple of shots of espresso and a conversation in a coffee shop. It can be fast and electric. But sometimes Mercury-Mars, by virtue of what is so strong, will point out what is missing, and sometimes what's missing for Mercury and Mars is listening to deeper, subtler things that are showing themselves and Mercury-Mars can be about.

It can be about immaturity when it comes to communication, which may involve an inability to listen or be present and attentive, and that can be it's just sort of the shadow of the speed and quickness, which is also like electric and exciting, you know. So, anyway, that's the symbolic listening piece.

Number four is mining for precious metal, Mercury-Mars is associated with science, chemistry, surgery, it's associated with math and analysis. So if you're searching, if you're probing and searching and penetrating to the depths of something to find something precious, believe it or not, that's not just the shadow of Mercury-Mars is speedy thinking, that kind of deep listening, and careful attentiveness that can yield an understanding of things that are deeper or more hidden, is actually a classical Mercury-Mars signature and so far as Mercury-Mars is like investigative and wants to probe and sort of penetrate into deeper and deeper layers, whether that's to understand the underlying chemical interactions as a chemist or that's about understanding hidden secrets as a journalist, you know, the probing, piercing, deepening hermetic or hermeneutic activity, which is sort of, can be a spiritual science, a poetic kind of probing or something very analytical.

But a big part of Mercury-Mars is that you can, you can mine for precious metal, you've got something like a pickaxe and a sixth sense that can lead you to precious things that are, are deep, you have to probe to find them, and then finally, Mercury-Mars is great at solving problems.

But one of the interesting things about Mercury-Mars, as a problem solver or strategist, is that Mercury-Mars will often do really well at sitting with a problem and looking at the problem and again, penetrating, probing, going deeply into the problem to discover or decode or kind of like find a hermeneutic reason that the problem has presented itself, which means that Mercury-Mars is frequently associated with people who stare at problems until they find something creative hidden within the problem.

This is a common trait of inventors and geniuses in all kinds of fields is that when they sit with a problem, they don't just try to fix something that's been broken, but they sit with the problem as though the problem may be something other than just a problem and that tends to yield these very creative, dynamic insights. This is also why I'm bringing this one up as a connection.

Also, the fact that these two planets are both moving into trines with Uranus also tends to amplify that sense of discovery that comes through problems. I mean, how many I don't know physicists, for example, have started off with a problem and then found something beautiful as a result of just moving in and around the problem? So the connection to Uranus coming and trine with both of these planets next week suggests that kind of theme as well.

Anyway, that's what I've got for today: a kind of short, and sweet video looking at this very interesting connection between word language and Mercury and Mars. I hope this was useful for you, and yeah, we'll see you again tomorrow for more. Bye, everyone.