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♂︎ ⚹︎ ☊︎ Mars sextile North Node

The sextile puts Mars and the North Node on friendly terms: an opportunity between the will to act and the direction of growth that rewards a little initiative.

Mars governs drive, courage, and appetite; the North Node governs growth and the work of this life. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.

This is opportunity rather than gift. Heat and nerve is available to the path being learned on request, with a little more push behind it than a trine would give.

As a transit, Mars moving to sextile the North Node 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 North Node (the path being learned), held 60° apart.

Right now

Mars and North Node currently stand about 137.0° apart, 77.0° away from an exact sextile. Watch it move on the live clock.

When: past and next exact sextiles

Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.

More on this pair

• North Node sextile Mars
• Mars conjunction North Node
• Mars square North Node
• Mars trine North Node
• Mars opposition North Node

Where these two stand today

• Mars in Cancer
• North Node in Aquarius

Related sextiles

• Jupiter sextile North Node
• Saturn sextile North Node
• Uranus sextile North Node

In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about sextiles · all aspects.