Honey on rough bread.
Wednesday - Mercury in Aries conjoining Venus
What kind of honesty shows your caring? When is directness kinder?
Where I live, there is an infamous perception that people avoid direct conversations at all costs. Even those who identify as direct communicators avoid conflict and shy away from talking out their problems or honestly expressing their limits. We are not quite a home for Mercury in Aries, whose brusqueness and directness goes too far in the other direction sometimes.
Some of us know and feel relieved to be around someone who is going to tell it the way they see it, whether it’s pleasant to hear or not, and doesn’t seem to think about their audience. They like ribbing you, they might come off harsh, their edges might be sharp, and some of us love that while others of us are afraid of it.
Today there’s a brief softening, a sweetening of that energy. We can be direct and a little harsh but charm comes through, love comes through. If your intentions are to be kind, firm, and direct, then your words might be clarifying and open up the space for a real conversation. It’s not always kind to dance around an issue and assume the other person is accurately reading your evasiveness as disinterest. Sometimes it’s better to come out and say why you’re not into the idea, or why you don’t like their outfit, or that you are never going to go to their house because they have nine cats and you’re allergic to all of them.