SEXTILES
The sextile aspect combines the dynamics of planets that are separated by an angle of 60°. The signs occupied by the planets involved are congenial whether they are positive or negative, and this sympathetic relationship is transmitted to the planets. The only exception to this is when the planets are related by more than 60°, as when one planet is in a late degree of one sign and the other is in an early degree of the other sign. This is referred to as a disassociate sextile, and the effect is weakened to some extent.
The sextile aspect compels the planets' influences to function mainly in the intellectual world of ideas. This aspect shows how a person thinks and what subjects are of great interest.
The mentality is sharpened. The individual is bright, curious, inventive, clever, articulate, and communicative. There is considerable ease in gathering Information and skill in using it effectively. The sextile has many of the qualities usually associated with the signs Gemini and Aquarius and with their ruling planets, Mercury and Uranus. It denotes the ability to understand complex subjects and to translate them intelligibly for others to understand. It shows eagerness for conversation that is sociable, creative and informative. The sextile is especially useful for creativity, since it provides a medium for expression, either in speaking or writing. It shows much flexibility of opinion, because the person having this aspect is able to continually adapt to new or additional information.
The sextile inclines the person to enjoy broad social contacts, which will enrich his life.
It shows the person to be nonselective in choosing people to associate with and undemanding of those whose mental abilities are less developed.
Sun Sextile Moon
The Sun sextile the Moon indicates that, as a whole, your life will be reasonably happy and essentially tranquil. You relate easily to people in general and will enjoy a lifelong pleasant relationship with your parents and other members of your family. You maintain a well-balanced altitude toward both the past and the present. Deriving much benefit from your experiences, you use the lessons effectively to become successful in future enterprises. You are sufficiently strong-willed to assert yourself when necessary, but you are careful not to offend people who may be sensitive. You try to treat people as you want to be treated, and your consideration makes you well liked. You understand people and make allowances for their negative qualities while enjoying them for their good points.
A very creative person, you have a wealth of ideas to draw on. Communication is relatively easy for you, and you strive for mutual understanding between you and the people you deal with. You are not afraid to make concessions to others if it will promote greater rapport between you. Because you are secure about your goals, you never really feel threatened when challenged. You feel that even though you may lose a few, you will win at least as many and probably more. Your ego is important, to be sure, but not so much that you would seek another person's submission |p order to satisfy it. You prefer to relate to people as equals, regardless of their station in life.
There is every indication that you will succeed as a person. You can achieve fulfillment in whatever profession you choose and simply need the right opportunity to express your creative talents. You are on good terms with your superiors and co-workers, and you respect their trust in you. Because you are a good listener as well as a good talker, you learn well and can use what you learn.
You remember the lessons of the past, but you have no desire to return to it. You are content with the present, knowing it will provide you with what you need to courageously face the future, and you are grateful for it all.
You are equally comfortable with men and women. Your early relationship with your own parents has given you a healthy attitude about people and resulted in no important inner conflicts. You can probably always count on your parents to give you a helping hand when you need it. Your children will learn your uncomplicated outlook on life, and they will benefit from it as much as you have. If you can operate from your home, you will enjoy your career interests.
Wherever you go in pursuit of your destiny, you will tend to establish residence, if only for a short time.
Sun Sextile Mars
The Sun sextile Mars provides you with such an incredible amount of energy that you can accomplish more work than two other people. You are gifted with many creative ideas, which you constantly strive to express. You use your intellectual abilities to find the best way to
apply your special talents. Although firm in your opinions and forceful in projecting them, you are open to suggestions from others, realizing that their ideas are probably as valid as your own.
You don't usually take action without thinking out the probable result, and anything you do has your stamp of approval. Although you may not enjoy doing so, you will admit any errors that you make.
Communicating is your greatest strength. You can find success in such areas as reporting, writing, teaching, the communications media, advising and speaking for persons in positions of leadership, or detective work. In such endeavors you could rise to a prominent position and gain recognition for your achievements and persistent striving for excellence.
Your avocational interests are varied; you could obtain great satisfaction from tutoring young people or from working with youth groups, preparing them for the future. You are an avid reader because you know that your competitive position depends upon maintaining an alert interest in contemporary affairs. You also want to be ready to accept an opportunity when it is presented. In your opinion a person who doesn't read has no advantage over one who can't.
Though not particularly fond of reading, you want to improve your skills in your current or future employment. You'd rather stay in the mainstream, where the action is.
Although you can be pushy in expressing yourself, you generally relate to people in a polished way that doesn't threaten them. You are rarely on the defensive because you are secure in what you know. You seek the company of gentler persons who can compensate for your aggressiveness. You respect those who are less articulate and admire them for whatever talents they may possess.
Your physical desires are fairly strong, but you usually want to know a person quite well before you begin a romantic alliance.
Sun Sextile Jupiter
The Sun sextile Jupiter shows that you are philosophical, curious, and sympathetic, and you approach your goals with enthusiasm. You understand your capabilities and have great confidence in what you can accomplish. Your early conditioning has prepared you to strive for whatever goals you decide on. Only rarely do you indulge in pessimism. Even when you are the butt of the joke you can laugh at yourself, because you have a good sense of humor. You are serious about your life direction, but not ponderously so. You are quick to respond to opportunities, sometimes too quick for your own good. Although you have a fair appreciation of your limits, at times you push your luck.
Communication is the medium by which you put your best foot forward. For this reason, education, the news media, philosophy, law, theatrical enterprises, public relations, or the ministry would be excellent avenues for your creative expression. You are skillful in debate and can be devastating in an argument because you are so well armed with information. Because
of your flair for theatrics, your delivery is dramatic and articulate. People will believe what you say, and you are subtly persuasive. Your role-playing is artful and convincing, and you fairly glow with the effects you produce. You are an avid conversationalist and never lack a subject for interesting discussion.
You are an "idea person" who needs constant opportunities to apply your creative thinking. The daily demands of routine obligations frustrate your intellectual enthusiasm and crush your creativity. You work best when you can decide for yourself how to use your talents for the best results. Rigid schedules are especially annoying to you, for they sometimes force you to submit work that does not meet your own Standard of accomplishment.
Because you are an outgoing person, you probably have a wide circle of friends who enjoy your breezy manner. You usually cultivate the friendship of other individuals who are optimistic, courageous, and impatient with routine. You indulge yourself in acquiring the so-called "good things" in life, and you generously help others who have similar tastes. Pursuits that enable you to unwind from the demands of your career appeal to you, such as sporting events, travel, and other recreational activities. You generally get a lot out of life because you put a lot into it.
Sun Sextile Saturn
The sextile from the Sun to Saturn indicates that you have great depth of understanding and the capacity to help others understand what you have learned. You are modest in assessing your self-worth and are aware of your limitations, but you also know how to make the most of your potentials. You have a respect for authority and competence. Because you rarely voice your opinion unless asked, your views are considered authoritative and sincere. Usually you prefer to remain in the background and let others with greater needs gain the attention. You don't need anyone's approval for your actions because you generally observe the rules of good behavior.
Although you have a driving ambition to succeed, you methodically plan each step toward your goals, quietly and without fanfare. You have a distinct rapport with your professional superiors because you carefully avoid threatening them with your ambition. You always extract important lessons from your experiences.
You are suited for such occupations as teaching, research and development, industrial management, politics, or law. In any of these professions you would very probably rise to a management position. You take your work seriously and always strive to maintain your position by staying abreast of new developments in your field. It would be difficult for anyone to remove you from your position, because you have gained it by demonstrating competence,
efficiency, integrity, and sincerity. In other words, you've earned everything you've gained.
You relate well to anyone who upholds the virtues mentioned above. Your mate probably shares your high regard for tradition and orderliness. Together you plan for a future made secure by your efforts.
Sun Sextile Uranus
With the Sun sextile Uranus, it is important for you to maintain communication with other people at all times. You are eager to share your experiences with others and impatient with those who are unwilling to include you in theirs. Your opinions are willful and outspoken, but you can usually justify them in such a way that they are accepted. Your attitudes are relatively uninhibited and not bound by tradition. You find life exciting, and you live every moment of every day. Boredom is something you never have to cope with because your mind is so active.
In your philosophical view of life, everything has meaning. You take even negative incidents positively, so that you are rarely "down in the dumps."
Your original thinking and strong will are suited to the fields of politics, science, or education. You can adapt to any profession that clearly has the objective of improving the masses. You are able to project your ideas and opinions without demanding that others yield to them unquestioningly. But you are impatient with dawdlers who continually put off making decisions. Your development is accelerated, and your intuition is so finely honed that you can instantly evaluate facts and render a judgment.
Teaching others is probably your best avenue of expression. You can effectively dramatize knowledge to make learning easy for your students. Truth is something you insist on, and you deal harshly with those who distort it in their dealings with you.
Your restless mind and eager disposition contribute significantly to your romantic relationships. You are broad-minded and understanding of human nature. Although you will tolerate failure, you do not accept dishonesty from anyone with whom you are emotionally involved. You can easily detach yourself from an insincere or dishonest individual, as though you had never had any feelings for that person.
Sun Sextile Neptune
The Sun sextile Neptune shows that you are deeply aware of your creative potential.
You understand your social responsibilities and know that you can be instrumental in relieving much of the suffering you observe. However, you prefer to leave the burden of changing adverse social conditions to those who have the strength and determination for it. Your task is to assist those who are affected by such conditions, to treat the symptoms. You are extremely
sensitive, and any rejection of your attempts to render service hurts you deeply. This can cause some difficulty, since it is so important for you to relate to others in personal contact.
Your professional possibilities are quite varied. Like a chameleon, you can take on whatever characteristics are required in your occupation. In other words, you can "fit in" despite your personal preferences. Ideally, your work should involve public-related activities. Your imagination and Creative talents could be exploited in writing or the Communications media in general. Even working in a travel agency or on ships, planes, or resorts where people unwind would be an excellent outlet for you. If you are motivated to work alone, you must still relate to the public in some way. Arts and crafts, writing, or drama would draw out the best in you.
Your sense of drama is an asset in bringing attention to your pursuits. Your inspiration and imagination become "alive" when you focus your energy on them.
Your personal associations are as varied as your professional interests. You freely relate to all kinds of people and are rarely shocked by the many characters you encounter. You admire the successful and sympathize with those who fail, but you are not demanding or intolerant of either. Generally you allow others to find their own level of accomplishment. You are particularly drawn to individuals who are sure of their own identity.
You accept the challenge of opportunities others would avoid, in order to prove to yourself that you can succeed in spite of complications. You are somewhat of a visionary and can "picture" the outcome of any situation you are involved in.
Sun Sextile Pluto
The sextile between your Sun and Pluto shows that you are fully aware of the intensity of your will. Deep within, you understand that you can accomplish almost anything you want without too much resistance from others. You realize that without knowledge, however, you can't fulfill your destiny.
Your ability to communicate your thoughts is so great that others are mesmerized by your words. This ease of communication is your greatest asset. You also have a flair for handling other people's resources, and you easily inspire their confidence in your abilities.
Because your talents are so precious, you owe it to the world, as well as to yourself, to make them available to everyone.
You constantly pursue solutions to social conditions that seem to be unjust, disordered, or chaotic. You have the courage to attack environmental problems head on and the fortitude to see that they are corrected. You are tireless in your efforts to arouse the public to bring pressure on the proper authorities and force them to make necessary changes. Your dramatic qualities ideally suit you to be the spokesman for change or adjustment.
Even in more personal relationships, you strongly vitalize others when they fail, and you can restore their faith in themselves after reversals. You stimulate others to regain their self-confidence when they need a boost.
You are drawn to complex subjects such as mysticism, yoga, and the occult in general, which you understand easily. Your strong psychic abilities serve you even when you aren't aware of it. This is probably the key to your ability to sense immediately what is right or wrong about a situation. You don't have to make a logical appraisal or a deductive analysis to arrive at solutions to problems. Some people might even regard you as a mystic, since you always seem to have the right answer when posed with a problem.
Sun Sextile Ascendant
The Sun sextile the Ascendant shows that it is easy for you to express yourself. You project your ego with finesse and articulate skill, so that when you speak, people are usually attentive. You have an authoritative manner, and what you say adds to your credibility. Because you feel warmly disposed to people in general, you expect them to feel comfortable in your company. Your youthful outlook enables you to enjoy everyone, regardless of age, and it allows them to relate easily to you. Your magnetic charm encourages the people you know to do favors for you, because you have convinced them that you don't want anything from them. You have a breezy disposition and an infectious sense of humor. A good conversationalist, you always have topics to discuss that liven up a social gathering.
You are inclined to become restless in your career because you may think that you haven't been given the opportunity to demonstrate your creative potential. Without realizing it, you sometimes appear so sure of yourself that your superiors feel threatened about their own jobs. The fact that you have a wealth of ideas to draw on also makes them uncomfortable. You hate to think that you are being "used" by others for their exclusive benefit, but you should refrain from expressing this thought carelessly.
Your way with people is charming and delightful. You excel in making social contacts that can be helpful, but you rarely want anything from those you care for except sincere friendship. You insist on being honest and frank with everyone you deal with. Subterfuge and deceit are intolerable to you. If these tactics are used in a relationship, you sever further relations with those involved, and thereafter it is almost impossible for them to regain your lost
Your way with people is charming and delightful. You excel in making social contacts that can be helpful, but you rarely want anything from those you care for except sincere friendship. You insist on being honest and frank with everyone you deal with. Subterfuge and deceit are intolerable to you. If these tactics are used in a relationship, you sever further relations with those involved, and thereafter it is almost impossible for them to regain your lost