Moon sextile South Node

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 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

The familiar soothes. Associated with security drawn from the past, from family, and from the way things have always been done.

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

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-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Moon semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• 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