⚹ Sextile
Venus sextile North Node
Affection helps the growth. Associated with relationships that develop a person rather than settle them.
- Angle
- 60°
- Orb used
- ±4°
- 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 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
Affection helps the growth. Associated with relationships that develop a person rather than settle 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
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-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- 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.