⚺ Semi-sextile
Sun semi-sextile North Node
Growing that way is comfortable. Associated with development that does not feel like a fight, which the tradition notes is pleasant and easy to neglect.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ☊
What these two are about together
The self and the direction of development. The tradition reads the North Node as what a person is growing toward rather than what they are, so this pair is about identity being pulled somewhere it has not been.
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
Growing that way is comfortable. Associated with development that does not feel like a fight, which the tradition notes is pleasant and easy to neglect.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Sun and North Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition North 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 Sun and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.