⚺ Semi-sextile
Sun semi-sextile Neptune
Imagination is available without cost. Read as creative facility and as a natural, undramatic kind of empathy.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ♆
What these two are about together
Identity and dissolution. What happens to a sense of self when the edges are not firm, which the tradition reads as both the artistic gift and the central difficulty of this pair.
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
Imagination is available without cost. Read as creative facility and as a natural, undramatic kind of empathy.
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
Neptune: Imagination, dissolution and what you cannot see clearly
Sun and Neptune at other angles
- Sun conjunction NeptuneTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-square NeptuneForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile NeptuneSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile NeptuneSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square NeptuneNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine NeptuneA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate NeptuneA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx NeptuneA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition NeptuneDirectly 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 Neptune actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.