Mercury Conjunct Venus

These two cohabit easily, which is not true of every conjunction. Mercury names things; Venus decides what is worth having. Fused, the naming acquires manners. The native speaks well, writes in sentences that scan, and is physically uncomfortable in the presence of an ugly phrase or a badly laid table. Diplomacy comes without effort because the tactful version of a statement occurs to them at the same moment as the blunt one, and is easier to say. In any group this native tends to become the one who explains people to each other.

The practical marks are consistent. Handwriting is often good. Letters of condolence and difficult emails are drafted by this native on behalf of others. They can price a thing, describe a thing and sell a thing in one motion, which is why so many end up in design, publishing, negotiation or the better sort of shopkeeping. Arguments are conducted by refinement rather than force: the opponent's case is restated more elegantly than the opponent managed, and then dismantled politely. Very few people notice they have been handled until afterwards.

The weakness is that there is no distance between the two functions. A proposition that is put charmingly is felt to be sounder than one put clumsily, and the native does not always audit this. Unpleasant truths are softened at the point of thinking them, not merely at the point of saying them, so the softening is invisible from inside. Work is judged finished when it looks finished. What corrects this is any discipline that will not be charmed, whether mathematics, law or a demanding editor, and the native who submits to one keeps the elegance and gains an edge.