⚺ Semi-sextile
Mercury semi-sextile Black Moon Lilith
The blunt thing lands well. Associated with humour, and with being the one who names what everybody noticed.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚸
What these two are about together
Voice and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the thing a person says that other people wish they had not.
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
The blunt thing lands well. Associated with humour, and with being the one who names what everybody noticed.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Mercury and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Mercury conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Mercury and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.