Moon sextile Neptune

What these two are about together

Need and dissolution. The most permeable pair in the chart, and the one the tradition most associates with both compassion and self-deception.

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

Empathy that costs nothing. Read as kindness, imagination and an ease with art or music.

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

Neptune: Imagination, dissolution and what you cannot see clearly

Moon and Neptune at other angles

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