Me versus Dadsnooks
I thought I'd compare me and Dads since we have nearly inverted situations.
- Dads' Mercury is ahead of his Sun by over 20 degrees
- My Mercury is behind my Sun by over 20 degrees
Quick keyword review before I start to discuss
- Sun - focus, consciousness, integration, being, action
- Mercury - logic, discrimination, circulation, attention, thinking
So in my case my Sun approaches situations first and Mercury trails quite a ways behind. This makes me appear more intuitive than logical because my Sun often figures things out and knows where it's going before Mercury can work out the details and communicate to others how I got to where I got. Because the Sun integrates where Mercury discriminates, I am more of a "big picture" person and can get terribly bored by details. I've often gotten myself into difficulties because I act before I've thought things through sufficiently. The Sun lends tremendous enthusiasm and movement, but what I want to do may not be realistic once the Mercury function comes into play. And, lastly, I'm dislexic when it comes to directions (left, right, clockwise, counterclockwise, etc.) so I have a tough time with technical stuff in astrology.
Now in Dads' case his Mercury leads and I've noticed that he is great at details and is excellent at technical aspects of astrology which drive me up a wall. You might want to compare the way we described the Sun and the Moon in other threads. I think our style of communication is quite different.