⚹ Sextile
Sun sextile Black Moon Lilith
The refusal sits comfortably in the self. Associated with a person who is direct about what they will not do, without it costing them.
- Angle
- 60°
- Orb used
- ±4°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ⚸
What these two are about together
The self and what will not be made acceptable. Lilith is read as the part of a person that refuses to be smoothed over, which the tradition distinguishes firmly from the part that is wrong with them.
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
The refusal sits comfortably in the self. Associated with a person who is direct about what they will not do, without it costing them.
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
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Sun and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Sun conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.