One of my favorite aspects is Mercury conjunct the Sun. There are two kinds of conjunctions — when Mercury passes between Earth and the Sun during Mercury retrograde, and when Mercury is to one side of the Sun and the Earth is to the other, as is happening now.
Technically this is called the ‘superior conjunction’, though a few years ago Melanie Reinhart and I conducted a vote to change the name to the ‘exterior conjunction’, which carried unanimously 2-0. (This would correspond with editing ‘inferior conjunction’, as happens during the retrograde, to ‘interior conjunction’, which has a nice ring to it.)
I associate this aspect with good news. This may be a personal bias, though (for example) at the moment that then-Illinois Gov. George Ryan announced that he had freed everyone on that state’s corrupt Death Row, it was during the exterior conjunction at around noon, with Mercury and the Sun high in the sky. This event is overlooked because it doesn’t feed the blood lust of politics and media however: by signing his name (and state lawyers preparing lots of documents), Gov. Ryan commuted 156 death sentences in a state where fully half of those convicted of capital crimes may have been innocent. (A bunch of journalism students at Northwestern University helped clear the names of at least five Death Row inmates.)
There are generally six Mercury-Sun conjunctions a year — three interior (during Mercury retrograde), and three exterior (marking the midpoint between the Mercury retrogrades — lots more to say about the next one, which starts on U.S. Election Day).