⚹ Sextile
Mercury sextile Black Moon Lilith
The blunt thing lands well. Associated with humour, and with being the one who names what everybody noticed.
- Angle
- 60°
- Orb used
- ±4°
- 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 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
The blunt thing lands well. Associated with humour, and with being the one who names what everybody noticed.
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
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-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- 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.