The celestial curtain pulls back, and Mercury pirouettes into Scorpio, wrapping its sultry webs around your composite Neptune in Capricorn. Brace yourselves for your mental faculties getting a caffeine shot, even if it feels more like a turbo-charged espresso in your synapses.

The transit offers a ticket to higher understanding and deeply insightful communication. Frog-voiced truths will croak in your subconscious, dressed in softer tones. Suddenly, it dawns upon you why your partner insists on choosing the priciest artisanal soap despite your shared budget reminding you of an empty jug. Remember to laugh at the pearls of wisdom this transit yeasts in your minds.

This phase brings clarity, transforming abstract impressions about your relationship into intriguing symbols readable as Newton's Principia. Symbol-index anyone? Meanwhile, a softening in the steely Capricorn rigidity is visible. Neptune's influence releases a smoky cloud of fantasies, making those business suits feel slightly more pirate and less executive.

Your collective dreamscape morphs into an IMAX theater with the shutter-speed of your thoughts increasing. Like Olympic-level synchronized swimming, you'll find yourselves adept at deciphering each other's non-verbal cues, ignoring those terrible at home haircuts, and laughing at shared jokes that others find as intelligible as ancient Sumerian.

Beware though, Neptune might be furnishing your relationship with rose-tinted glasses. And while you may relish playing Juliet to your partner's Romeo, a balcony scene at your office meeting might get you weird looks, and not just from the office plants.

In sum, Mercury sextile Neptune heralds a period of deep understanding, emotional fluidity, crow's nest-high insights, and a soupson of illusion. Engage in open conversations, validate each other's feelings and ideas, and remember to rendezvous back to reality post this fantastical submarine journey. If nothing else, this transit promises to make your relationship as interesting as a time-traveling detective novella.

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