Moon Conjunct Mercury

These two cohabit reasonably well. Mercury gains a memory of extraordinary reach and the Moon gains a voice, and the result is a person who can describe a domestic atmosphere from thirty years ago in exact detail, including what was on the table. Learning is done by absorption rather than analysis, and facts stick when they were attached to a feeling and slide off when they were not. Such natives are usually good mimics and excellent at accents, having taken in the sound of people along with everything else.

The absence of any gap between sensation and speech is the whole character of the contact. Opinions are reported while still forming, which makes the native lively company and an unreliable witness to their own settled views. In an argument they say the wounding accurate thing immediately and are contrite within the hour, sincerely, having already moved on to a different mood. Objectivity is genuinely difficult. Ask what they think of a proposal and the answer will describe how the proposal felt, which is information, but not the information requested.

The trouble comes from rumination, since the same channel that carries feeling into words carries it into circular thought. Worries are talked over repeatedly, at length, with anyone available, and the talking is comforting without being productive. Writing suits this contact particularly well: teachers, novelists, letter-writers and cooks with strong opinions. What develops it is a deliberate habit of waiting, and the discovery that a thought held silently for a day sometimes changes. This native rarely needs help expressing themselves. They need practice in not doing so.