Mercury quincunx Pluto shows a repeated adjustment between thinking and deep psychological pressure. Mercury wants to understand, name, explain, and transmit information. Pluto raises what is hidden: fear, control, obsessive thought, secret motive, pressure of duty or force. In the quincunx, these energies do not fit simply. The person may think, analyze, suspect, and return to the same theme again and again without immediately understanding what drives them.
The aspect often gives a feeling of intellectual responsibility. The person may take on difficult tasks, other people’s secrets, heavy conversations, unpleasant truth, or work that others refused. Sometimes they unconsciously seek such situations because through them they prove the strength of their mind. Then fatigue, resentment, or the feeling of being used appears. It is important to separate personal responsibility from someone else’s burden.

