⚹ Sextile
Sun sextile North Node
Growing that way is comfortable. Associated with development that does not feel like a fight, which the tradition notes is pleasant and easy to neglect.
- Angle
- 60°
- Orb used
- ±4°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ☊
What these two are about together
The self and the direction of development. The tradition reads the North Node as what a person is growing toward rather than what they are, so this pair is about identity being pulled somewhere it has not been.
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
Growing that way is comfortable. Associated with development that does not feel like a fight, which the tradition notes is pleasant and easy to neglect.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Sun and North Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition North NodeDirectly 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 North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.