Moon sextile Mercury

What these two are about together

Feeling and thinking. Whether what you feel can be put into words, and whether what you say matches what is going on underneath.

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

Feelings articulate easily. Associated with good listeners, with people who explain difficult things kindly, and with an instinctive rather than trained understanding of others.

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

Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you

Mercury: Mind, language and how you process

Moon and Mercury at other angles

• Moon conjunction MercuryTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Moon semi-sextile MercuryThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Moon semi-square MercuryForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Moon quintile MercurySeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Moon square MercuryNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Moon trine MercuryA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Moon sesquiquadrate MercuryA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Moon quincunx MercuryA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Moon opposition MercuryDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis