Venus sextile South Node

What these two are about together

What is wanted and what is already known. The tradition associates this with the type a person keeps returning to, in relationships and in taste.

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 familiar is genuinely pleasant. Associated with easy affection and with old friendships that hold.

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

South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in

Venus and South Node at other angles

• Venus conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Venus semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Venus semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Venus quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Venus square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Venus trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Venus sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Venus quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Venus opposition South NodeDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis