⚺ Semi-sextile
Sun semi-sextile Chiron
The injury has been integrated. Associated with people who can speak about the difficult thing without it costing them, and who are therefore trusted with it by others.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ⚷
What these two are about together
The self and the injury that did not close. The tradition reads this as the place where a person is least able to take their own competence at face value, and where their actual usefulness to others tends to come from.
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 injury has been integrated. Associated with people who can speak about the difficult thing without it costing them, and who are therefore trusted with it by others.
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
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Sun and Chiron at other angles
- Sun conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition ChironDirectly 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 Sun and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.