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Mercury Sextile Uranus

The Mercury and Uranus sextile keeps a door open to the unorthodox idea, useful whenever the native chooses to walk through it and entirely dormant in those who prefer the settled answer.

This is an aptitude offered rather than imposed. The native can think sideways when the direct route is blocked, and can pick up a new instrument, language or piece of equipment faster than their patience would suggest. Nothing compels them to. Plenty of people with this contact live conventional working lives and use it only for crosswords and for being the one in the family who can fix the computer, which is a real service and considerably below capacity.

Taken up, it shows as a habit of asking the question nobody in the room has asked. Meetings improve. Old procedures get revised because the native noticed a step that had stopped being necessary a decade ago. Friendship crosses age and class lines easily here; the native collects unlike people and gets ideas from them. Technical subjects are learned by taking the thing apart rather than by reading the manual, and the manual is consulted afterwards, if at all.

Because a sextile brings no friction, the failure mode is quiet. The native has the unusual thought, judges the room, keeps it to themselves, and after enough repetitions stops having it. What preserves the faculty is use in public: saying the awkward thing, submitting the odd proposal, joining the group where being strange is the entrance fee. Those who do this find the aptitude sharpens with exercise, unlike most of what Uranus offers, which merely fires and goes out.

What It Gives

  • ◆sideways route when blocked
  • ◆fast acquisition of new tools
  • ◆asks the unasked question
  • ◆friendships across unlike groups

What It Costs

  • ◆unorthodox thought self-censored
  • ◆capacity spent on minor puzzles
  • ◆nothing forcing it into use

This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.

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