⚺ Semi-sextile
Mercury semi-sextile Chiron
Talking about it works. Associated with people who explain difficult things clearly because they had to learn them the hard way, and with teaching as a natural outlet.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚷
What these two are about together
Voice and the sore place. Associated with the difference between what a person can say and what they can be heard saying, and with speech as the thing that either healed or hurt.
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
Talking about it works. Associated with people who explain difficult things clearly because they had to learn them the hard way, and with teaching as a natural outlet.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mercury and Chiron at other angles
- Mercury conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition ChironDirectly 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 Mercury and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.