Moon sextile Chiron

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 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

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

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

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-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Moon semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• 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