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☿︎ □︎ ☊︎ Mercury square North Node

The square holds Mercury and the North Node at cross purposes, and that friction is meant to get the ball rolling rather than to sit still.

Mercury connects where there is thought, speech, and exchange; the North Node points ahead where there is the path being learned. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

The square keeps them at cross purposes: Mercury wants something to work out while the North Node wants a step forward, until a choice is made. Handled well, that pressure is the engine that gets things done.

Timing matters. When Mercury forms this square to the North Node in the sky, it is a temporary weather system that comes and goes. Held in a natal chart, it describes something the person carries for life.

Here the square joins Mercury (mind and message) with North Node (the path being learned), held 90° apart.

Right now

Mercury and North Node currently stand about 158.6° apart, 68.6° away from an exact square. Watch it move on the live clock.

When: past and next exact squares

Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.

More on this pair

• North Node square Mercury
• Mercury conjunction North Node
• Mercury sextile North Node
• Mercury trine North Node
• Mercury opposition North Node

Where these two stand today

• Mercury in Virgo
• North Node in Aquarius

Related squares

• Venus square North Node
• Mars square North Node
• Jupiter square North Node

In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about squares · all aspects.