Mars sextile South Node

What these two are about together

Action and what is already known. Associated with the reflex a person reaches for under pressure, and with whether that reflex still serves 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

The old approach works. Associated with competence under pressure.

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

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in

Mars and South Node at other angles

• Mars conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Mars semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Mars semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Mars quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Mars square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Mars trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Mars sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Mars quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Mars opposition South NodeDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis