Moon sextile Venus

What these two are about together

Need and value. What comforts you and what you find beautiful, which the tradition treats as one of the gentlest pairs in the chart.

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

Ease with affection. Read as somebody who receives care as naturally as they give it, which is rarer than it sounds.

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

Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful

Moon and Venus at other angles

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