The Moon-Mercury square creates friction between emotional perception and the thinking process. The Moon reacts quickly, bodily, and through mood; Mercury tries to explain, organize, transmit information. In a square these two functions may interrupt each other. The person is curious, mobile, and quick-witted, but concentration is easily disrupted by excitement, overload, unnecessary conversations, or inner anxiety.
This aspect does not deprive a person of mental ability. On the contrary, it often gives a quick mind, reaction, dexterity, a need to know, communicate, learn, stay informed. But the flow of information may become too dense. The person overloads themselves with news, conversations, tasks, messages, other people's problems. As a result, thinking becomes fussy, speech sharp or confused, mood unstable. It is hard to distinguish the important from noise, and fact from the emotional reaction to fact.


