One odd couple in synastry is Mercury and Jupiter. Their home signs naturally oppose each other, and yet they absolutely rely on each other to get to the truth. So what happens when the two meet?
Imagine building a sand castle. Your castle stretches and soars, the only limit being your imagination. How free you feel! And now imagine that the person you love comes up and reminds you that those turrets aren’t entirely historically accurate, the walls are all wrong, and why on earth would the dungeon be on the second floor? That’s how the Jupiter person feels when the Mercury person shows up.
Now flip and imagine once again that you are building a sand castle. You, with your love of detail, are happily assembling your ramparts to strict historical specifications when your partner appears and asks WHY you’re bothering and isn’t the point of this sort of thing to relax and this doesn’t look especially relaxing so why are you wasting your time? That is not the Mercury person feels around Jupiter.
There’s frustration on both sides. Mercury, planet of details, wants desperately to communicate and have everything they say actually be heard by their partner. After all, those details and factoids that Jupiter so readily dismissed are what Jupiter’s vast knowledge is really made from. Where would Jupiter be without detail?
But at the same time, Jupiter is looking to relax and expand. Jupiter doesn’t need to know where the turrets go. He just needs to know that sand castles = a good time. Anything else just gets in the way. And does Mercury not understand that Jupiter’s expansive viewpoint is what gives those silly factoids context? No Jupiter, no meaning.
And, of course, they’re both right! So how to you make it work? There are naturally a million ways to make this connection, but for the purposes of time, I’ll just point out that being natural opposites also makes these two planets a natural pair. And when they work together to build a shared reality, it can be beautiful. Jupiter lays back and lets Mercury facts wash over them like stars, placing them one by one in their larger context. And Jupiter then shows Mercury the gorgeous constellation they’ve created together.
So if you and your partner have this combo, even in hard aspect like an opposition o square, take heart. When the two of you are willing to work together for a shared goal, you can create something mutually valuable and oh so beautiful. Just remember that, regardless of your frustration, you complementary natures mean you need each other. Work side by side, and you’ll build something that will transcend words.
Do you and your partner have Mercury/Jupiter contacts in synastry? What is it like?
I have Jupiter (chart ruler) in my third house so I guess I embody this polarity. 🙂 good article, thanks 🙂
My Mercury trines my partner’s Jupiter. Over time we have discovered that through listening to each other’s view points, and working as a team, we can build sand castles sky high.
Once it was told to me, don’t need to see eye to eye but looking down the same road helps
How about Mercury Pluto?
Mercury (trine Pluto conjunct Neptune in synastry)
Or sun Jupiter? Do those inflating thoughts last
My partners Mercury in Cancer trines my Scorpio Jupiter.
Mu Mercury in Scorpio sextiles (widely) my partner’s Jupiter in Virgo.
We have all dat data!
All dem details and faucets and important stuff.
His Virgo Saturn conjunct Mars is trine my Mercury, Venus, Sun and Jupiter in Scorpio.
Want æasting building value?
Look no further.
We take very solid and sound decisions, is my answer after 10 months.
We make sure to cross all the dots and all the T’s before taking action. We make sure to have all the details in place. We do not rush things.
He builds (the IKEA test went by with with passing colors btw), after we set up the vision from my Scorpio 9th house – being it a holiday, a moving project or anything else.
Virgo Jupiter has luck through serving and being of service.
Mercury Scorpio see all the facts a Virgo can’t see with his factoid attitude … So, we mix a bit of water with mud and we build solid sand castles I’d say ???
This article is helpfu, there is not much on the topic. Me and my partner have this aspect in synastry, and it’s double whammy, both zero degrees, so the strongest we have. My mercury in ♒ opposit his ♌ Jupiter. Also his mercury in ♊ sextile my jupiter in ♈. We have different ways of doing almost everything and we’ve been fine compromising until recently. Being stuck at home has been difficult, arguing about small stuff is not my idea of fun.
have mercury square jupiter in my natal. partner has mercury trine jupiter. together his mercury is opposite my jupiter. so yeah, he tries to bring the facts into everything i do, tho i do need that, just a little…
and he does need to expand his narrowness a little… so basically we work ok with the energies.
I have no synastry issues to speak of now, but my Jupiter in Gemini really enjoyed this article.
I recently stumbled upon the fact that all the most important romantic relationships in my life have included my Mercury in some aspect to their Jupiter. Two oppositions, one trine,one square and two conjunctions (here,the men were born 12 years apart). I am attracted to the mind and intelligence of someone and they have all some way or another fired up my own intellectual process and made me feel especially smart and eloquent. I think it’s so interesting and shows that great synastry really depends on the individual charts.
Welcome, GC!