Moon sextile Pluto

What these two are about together

Need and power. Emotional intensity at its most extreme, and the tradition's clearest statement about what people do when they are afraid of losing something.

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

Emotional endurance. Associated with people who survive things and are strengthened rather than hollowed by them.

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

Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried

Moon and Pluto at other angles

• Moon conjunction PlutoTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Moon semi-sextile PlutoThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Moon semi-square PlutoForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Moon quintile PlutoSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Moon square PlutoNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Moon trine PlutoA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Moon sesquiquadrate PlutoA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Moon quincunx PlutoA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Moon opposition PlutoDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis