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♂︎ ⚹︎ ♃︎ Mars sextile Jupiter
The sextile puts Mars and Jupiter on friendly terms: an opportunity between the will to act and the appetite for more that rewards a little initiative.
Mars pushes forward where there is desire, courage, and conflict; Jupiter expands where there is growth, luck, and meaning. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.
This is opportunity rather than gift. Heat and nerve is available to growth, luck, and meaning on request, with a little more push behind it than a trine would give.
At its best this reads as courage that is well aimed working alongside generous faith that opens doors. The easy aspects ask little, so the risk is drift: force for its own sake, left unchallenged because nothing pushes back.
As a transit, Mars moving to sextile Jupiter marks a passing window, hours to days for the Moon, months or years for the slow outer bodies, when the theme is live and worth watching. In a birth chart the same aspect is a standing feature of character rather than a single moment.
Here the sextile joins Mars (drive and desire) with Jupiter (expansion and faith), held 60° apart.
Right now
Mars and Jupiter currently stand about 28.5° apart, 31.5° away from an exact sextile. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact sextiles
| 28 June 2026 | most recent |
| 20 September 2027 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
- Jupiter sextile Mars
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- Mars trine Jupiter
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Where these two stand today
Related sextiles
In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about sextiles · all aspects.