Mercury – Lilith Conjunction – Calculation or Indifference

The conjunction of a personal planet with Lilith gives birth to an entirely new energetic substance. The Black Moon symbolizes the hidden depth of the subconscious, where the darkest fantasies and thoughts are concealed. Its merging with Mercury reflects an absence, in the person’s mind, of the neural connections responsible for the ability to be sincerely friendly, to love brothers and sisters, to learn quickly, and most importantly, it is as if the person’s feelings are blocked. It is difficult for them to feel love, sympathy, delight, and gratitude — the emotions that arise spontaneously in relationships.

However, the native can skillfully imitate these emotions and express them verbally in a restrained way, although it is not certain that they actually feel them. This state of affairs is explained by the karmic nature of Lilith. In the person’s family line, it was not customary to express feelings, while calculation, secrecy, self-interest, and the ability to speculate on anything helped the ancestors survive, and the memory of this has been preserved in the subconscious.

Features of the Lilith – Mercury Conjunction

It is precisely because of a lack of empathy and underdeveloped emotional intelligence that people with this aspect can become skillful fraudsters, manipulators, thieves, and propagandists. However, everything depends on the person’s desire to develop, grow spiritually, and bring their Lilith to a higher level of expression. At that level, the skill of mentally tuning in to a partner is formed, when the native reads the other person’s mental intentions; artistry, sleight of hand, public-speaking ability, and an unsurpassed sense of humor also appear.

It is also important to understand which is stronger: the Black Moon or Mercury. If Mercury is stronger, feelings are subordinated to reason, and the native is irritated by other people’s impulsiveness, openness, and vulnerability. However, when the planet of intellect is weak, sensuality based on raw instinct, on the contrary, eclipses reason.

Sometimes the person is thrown from one extreme to another, and if Mercury is retrograde, they suffer from Cassandra syndrome. They know how to get to the truth by skillfully building cause-and-effect connections, but others do not want to listen to them or believe them.

Main manifestations of the Mercury – Lilith conjunction:

• painful curiosity and a desire to gossip, amateurism, and scattering interests over insignificant things;
• difficulty concentrating, not registering what has been said, forgetting assignments, and failing to absorb study material;
• inability to keep secrets, a desire to gossip and embellish things despite promises to remain silent;
• involvement in quarrels and conflicts, with disputes constantly boiling around the person;
• a tendency to weave intrigues, participate in bullying or boycotting those who are disliked, and mock those who are weaker.

This conjunction reflects weakness of the nervous system and inner tension. At a low level of development, the person may feel a desire to steal, even to the point of kleptomania, and to lie for no reason. They are either calculating to an extreme degree, or indifferent to people and simply do not feel sorry for them.

In childhood, the native experienced complicated and ambiguous relationships with younger brothers or sisters, which later influenced their perception of the world and their role in it. If the conjunction affects the Third, Seventh, Ninth, or Eleventh House, the person is drawn to bad company.

Positive Influence of the Lilith – Mercury Conjunction

This aspect was present in the chart of S. Ozhegov, the compiler of the explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. The linguist directed his insatiable curiosity and passion for diverse information into the positive channel of discovery and research.

It often turns out that the native easily grasps languages despite poor performance in other areas. Lilith exaggerates and turns Mercury’s qualities inside out, but the ability to quickly master any sign system — whether languages, programming, or formulas — remains highly developed.

If the person has a strong Venus and a water or fire Ascendant, then the Lilith – Mercury conjunction strengthens natural acting ability and the desire to stand out from the crowd. An air Ascendant encourages more speaking and public address than playing other roles. By itself, the conjunction does not give acting talent, because feelings are subordinated to reason, but it helps the person portray what is expected of them quite convincingly.

How to Work Through the Mercury – Lilith Conjunction

The native needs to be prepared for dark thoughts, fantasies, and a periodically arising desire to express themselves harshly or even communicate through obscene language.

If the person understands that this is the influence of Lilith, the process becomes easier to control and consciously direct toward a higher level: thinking positively, excluding aggression and anger not only from speech, but also from thoughts.

Purity of intentions, words, and actions is the guarantee of protection from gossip, intrigue, and theft directed against the native, because negative actions committed in Lilith’s intoxication with permissiveness return to the native like a boomerang every nine years.

It is important to study systematically, give up empty talk, gossip, and judging other people, master foreign languages and psychology, read a great deal, and definitely study in such a way as to join the ranks of excellent students.

If the native has brothers and sisters, it is good to establish kind relationships with them; otherwise, the wormhole of childhood conflicts will constantly interfere in other relationships as well.  ✓