⚺ Semi-sextile
Sun semi-sextile South Node
The old competence supports the self. Associated with a comfortable, capable self-image.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ☋
What these two are about together
The self and what is already known. The South Node is read as the familiar competence, so this is about identity resting on something a person is already good at.
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 old competence supports the self. Associated with a comfortable, capable self-image.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Sun and South Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition South 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 South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.