Oh boy, strap in, you two. With Lilith transiting through Gemini and squaring your composite Mercury in Aquarius, your shared communication style might feel like you're suddenly speaking different languages. Microwaving popcorn together could set off an existential debate on quantum physics. Go figure.

Mercury in Aquarius often gifts partnerships with innovative and breezy communication, and a certain intellectual detachment that lets you debate the nature of the universe far into the starlit night, without too many raised voices or tossed pillows. However, this square from Lilith, an asteroid known for stirring up tension, in garrulous Gemini could mean that one person's ingenious new app idea at 3 am is received as an encroachment on the other's sacred REM sleep.

There might be moments where you're both going, "What language are you conferencing in again?" as Lilith's influence throws a wrench, a screwdriver, a kitchen sink into your conversational machinery. Now isn't the time for your partner to take your blunt critique of their pizza toppings personally, even if pineapple and pickles were never meant to meet in this lifetime. Nor is it quite fair to excommunicate your partner from the home for being slightly overzealous in extolling the virtues of national park tourism at dinner.

Practical suggestion? Consider issuing a dictionary of non-verbal signals to your significant other - a raised eyebrow for "Please not now, my brain is on airplane mode," and a swift twirl for "Yes, I am fascinated by your sudden interest in pigeon behavior across metropolitan cities just before cocktail hour."

This period will ask you to be nimble linguists and patient interpreters. And remember, text messages written in binary code aren't likely to solve the impasse, nor would resurrecting Morse code bring a resolution. But having fun with your shared miscommunication, can, at the very least, keep you two laughing till the stars decide to shuffle again. Now let's see if interpretive dance could really be the answer.

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