⚺ Semi-sextile
Sun semi-sextile Uranus
Independence without a fight. Associated with people who are unusual and untroubled by it, and with sudden opportunities that suit them.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ♅
What these two are about together
Identity and disruption. Whether being yourself is a settled matter or something that keeps breaking and reforming.
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
Independence without a fight. Associated with people who are unusual and untroubled by it, and with sudden opportunities that suit them.
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
Uranus: Disruption, independence and the sudden turn
Sun and Uranus at other angles
- Sun conjunction UranusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-square UranusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile UranusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile UranusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square UranusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine UranusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate UranusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx UranusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition UranusDirectly 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 Uranus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.