⚺ Semi-sextile
Venus semi-sextile Chiron
Affection reaches the sore place. Associated with relationships that are quietly repairing, and with somebody who is easy to be imperfect around.
- Angle
- 30°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♀ ⚷
What these two are about together
Worth and the sore place. The tradition reads this as the aspect most concerned with whether a person believes they are wanted, and with what they do about believing they are not.
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
Affection reaches the sore place. Associated with relationships that are quietly repairing, and with somebody who is easy to be imperfect around.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Venus and Chiron at other angles
- Venus conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus 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 Venus and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.