⚺ Semi-sextile
Moon semi-sextile Black Moon Lilith
The refusal is felt without shame. Associated with being at ease with a part of yourself that others find sharp.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚸
What these two are about together
Feeling and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the feelings a person learned early not to show, and with what happens to them afterwards.
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
The refusal is felt without shame. Associated with being at ease with a part of yourself that others find sharp.
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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Moon and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Moon conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Moon and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.