⚹ Sextile
Sun 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
- 60°
- Orb used
- ±4°
- 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 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 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
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
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-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- 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.