Mars sextile North Node

What these two are about together

Action and the direction of development. Associated with whether a person actually moves toward what they are supposed to be growing into, which the tradition treats as the whole practical question of the nodes.

What a sextile does

A sextile is traditionally read as opportunity rather than event. The two planets are in compatible elements and can work together easily, but the tradition is specific that a sextile describes something available rather than something that arrives. It is the aspect most often described as a door that is unlocked and still shut.

How it reads

Acting on it is straightforward. Associated with effort that lands where it is useful.

In practice

Reads as ease that is not automatic. Where a trine tends to be used without thinking, a sextile tends to be noticed and then either taken up or left alone.

What to watch for

Nothing happening. A sextile that goes unused is the most common way this aspect is experienced, and it is not a failure of the aspect.

The two planets

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at

Mars and North Node at other angles

• Mars conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Mars semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Mars semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Mars quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Mars square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Mars trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Mars sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Mars quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Mars opposition North NodeDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis