⚺ Semi-sextile
Mars semi-sextile Chiron
Acting on it works. Associated with people who use the difficult thing as a reason to do something rather than as a reason to stop.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♂ ⚷
What these two are about together
Assertion and the sore place. Associated with what happens to somebody who was punished for wanting things, and with the particular difficulty of acting on your own behalf.
What a semi-sextile does
A semi-sextile puts two planets in adjacent signs, which share no element, no quality and no polarity. The tradition treats it as the mildest contact in the table and disagrees with itself about whether it is helpful at all: some read it as a small supportive link, others as a low-level irritation between two things that simply do not speak the same language. Both readings agree it is quiet.
How it reads
Acting on it works. Associated with people who use the difficult thing as a reason to do something rather than as a reason to stop.
In practice
Read as a minor note rather than a theme. A semi-sextile is worth mentioning when almost nothing else is in orb, and worth leaving out of a summary when anything major is.
What to watch for
Overreading it. Adjacent signs are genuinely awkward together, but at this strength the tradition does not expect the awkwardness to be conspicuous.
The two planets
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mars and Chiron at other angles
- Mars conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars opposition ChironDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Mars and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.