Ascendant Sextile Mercury

Ascendant represents your body, your make-up and how you present yourself and begin things; Mercury, the way you think, speak and learn.

Mercury sextile the Ascendant supports the native with wit and speech: it gives shrewdness, adaptability, and ease of communication, useful in dealings and in business when the native sets them to work.

The sextile generally places Mercury in the Third or the Eleventh House. In the Third, speech is tied to siblings, school and short routes; in the Eleventh, to friends and group projects. Either way, intelligence helps the person above all in exchanges, contacts and agreements. Since Mercury never strays far from the Sun, it is worth seeing whether it rises before it, quicker and bolder, or after it, more reflective. The difference shows in the pace at which the native decides.

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