⚺ Semi-sextile
Moon semi-sextile Chiron
Comfort and the injury cooperate. Associated with people who look after others well because they know the shape of it from the inside, without being pulled under by it.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚷
What these two are about together
Feeling and the sore place. The pair the tradition associates most strongly with early care: what was missing, what was given inconsistently, and what a person does about it afterwards.
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
Comfort and the injury cooperate. Associated with people who look after others well because they know the shape of it from the inside, without being pulled under by it.
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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Moon and Chiron at other angles
- Moon conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon 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 Moon and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.