The Astrological Sextile, matches and interpreting :
- Symbolic number : 6
- Exact Degree : 60°
- Orb in birth chart : 4°
- Symbolic Planets : Venus – Jupiter – Uranus
- Symbolic Signs : Taurus – Libra – Sagittarius – Aquarius
- Symbolic Houses : 2nd House – 7th House – 5th House – 9th House – 11th House
An Expression of these planets, signs, houses, implies that the chart is marked by the principles of the Sextile below.
The Sextile : harmony, cohesion, complementarity
The Sextile is an Aspect reputed to be harmonic, though minor, in traditional astrology. The Sextile represents “action” where the Trigon would be simpler “profit and diffusion”.
It symbolizes harmony, even the close harmonic connection, 2 planets in Sextile are linked by a cohesive force.
If the Conjunction is the spark that produces the detonation of creation, the separative Sextile of the increasing phase is the active emergence of this creation from nothingness, the resulting fecundity, the initial growth. This growth implies an organization directly consequent to the tension experienced in the testing of the preceding Semi-square and must necessarily be translated into concrete developments.
The Sextile is also and especially “complementarity”, it occurs in signs of complementary elements and those of the same polarity (fire-air, earth-water), it symbolizes adaptation, flexibility, reciprocal understanding, quality of communication… The energies in Sextile are differentiated but follow a “common purpose”, they develop a synthesis of their virtues and include the fruits of past experience.
The harmony of Sextile is extrapolated at all levels: aesthetics, beauty, love, relaxation, epicureanism, even in some cases, eroticism, charm, pleasure, joy, tenderness… Doesn’t it remind you of the planet Venus ruling Taurus and Libra ?!
The applying Sextile from the decreasing phase of the cycle symbolizes the integration of the decreasing Square (as can be the increasing Trine with the increasing Square). That is to say an aspect mainly representing appeasement and here spiritually speaking potentially of a “letting go” at the end of the cycle. The simple creation of the increasing Sextile becomes a reorganization of the acquired assets into decreasing Sextile in order to prepare a new Conjunction.
The decreasing Sextile is also to be considered as the increasing Trine (if we situate the Sextile in relation to the Opposition), it then symbolizes the expansion and the harmonious sharing born of the confrontation of the Opposition (after the tension, a reorganization of the fruits of the Opposition).
Advice for living the Sextile :
Positive phase of development, the Sextile must be actively used in the perspective of the cycle continuation.
In transits and actualization, the sextile can already form a relay with 2 semi-sextiles, the planet intervening here as a “mediator”, of the creation or of the requested change.
The phase of the increasing square with the first planet is interesting because it really powerfully impacts the natal symbolism of the sextile, it can already represent a first concretization that it raises.
The sextile can also later form an isosceles triangle, with another sextile and a trine base, it is a harmonic triangle that can already pave the way for a certain success, a recognition…
The increasing square phase with the second planet results in quincunx with the first planet, it is a period that can mark very frustrating, unsatisfactory elements.
The opposition to the first planet translates into a trine with the second one, we find some very harmonic rectangles of this kind if this aspect is doubled, and these are very powerful energies, in terms of revelation, accomplishment, integration…
Further on in the cycle we come across the Yod pattern, the sextile forming the base of a triangle connected with 2 quincunx, it embodies the “Finger of God”, the focus is immense at the planet apex, it forms a kind of lightning rod that must channel the whole pattern and what the sextile materializes.