⚹ Sextile
Mercury sextile Chiron
Talking about it works. Associated with people who explain difficult things clearly because they had to learn them the hard way, and with teaching as a natural outlet.
- Angle
- 60°
- Orb used
- ±4°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚷
What these two are about together
Voice and the sore place. Associated with the difference between what a person can say and what they can be heard saying, and with speech as the thing that either healed or hurt.
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
Talking about it works. Associated with people who explain difficult things clearly because they had to learn them the hard way, and with teaching as a natural outlet.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mercury and Chiron at other angles
- Mercury conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury 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 Mercury and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.