Sun sextile Jupiter

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 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

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

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

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-sextile JupiterThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Sun semi-square JupiterForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• 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