⚺ Semi-sextile
Moon semi-sextile North Node
Feeling supports the growth. Associated with development that does not cost security, which is rare enough for the tradition to mark it.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ☊
What these two are about together
Comfort and the direction of development, which the tradition treats as one of the more demanding pairs, because the Moon is what already feels safe and the North Node is by definition unfamiliar.
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
Feeling supports the growth. Associated with development that does not cost security, which is rare enough for the tradition to mark it.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Moon and North Node at other angles
- Moon conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition North NodeDirectly 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 North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.