Venus sextile Chiron

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 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

Affection reaches the sore place. Associated with relationships that are quietly repairing, and with somebody who is easy to be imperfect around.

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

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-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Venus semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• 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