⚺ Semi-sextile
Venus semi-sextile North Node
Affection helps the growth. Associated with relationships that develop a person rather than settle them.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♀ ☊
What these two are about together
What is wanted and the direction of development. The tradition associates this pair with relationships and values that carry a person forward, and with the difference between what is attractive and what is good for them.
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
Affection helps the growth. Associated with relationships that develop a person rather than settle 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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Venus and North Node at other angles
- Venus conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus 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 Venus and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.