⚺ Semi-sextile
Sun semi-sextile Jupiter
Growth without much friction. Associated with opportunity that arrives through being well thought of, and with an easy faith that things will work out.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ♃
What these two are about together
Identity and expansion. How much room you believe you are entitled to take up, and what happens when that belief meets the world.
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
Growth without much friction. Associated with opportunity that arrives through being well thought of, and with an easy faith that things will work out.
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
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Jupiter: Meaning, growth and the risk of too much
Sun and Jupiter at other angles
- Sun conjunction JupiterTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-square JupiterForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile JupiterSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile JupiterSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square JupiterNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine JupiterA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate JupiterA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx JupiterA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition JupiterDirectly 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 Sun and Jupiter actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.