⚺ Semi-sextile
Moon semi-sextile South Node
The familiar soothes. Associated with security drawn from the past, from family, and from the way things have always been done.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ☋
What these two are about together
Comfort and what is already known, which the tradition treats as the most self-reinforcing pair in the chart: both halves are the familiar.
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 familiar soothes. Associated with security drawn from the past, from family, and from the way things have always been done.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Moon and South Node at other angles
- Moon conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition South 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 South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.