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♂︎ ⚹︎ ♇︎ Mars sextile Pluto
Mars sextile Pluto is an open door: the will to act finds the force of transformation easy to reach, for anyone who bothers to walk through.
In this pairing Mars carries drive, courage, and appetite, while Pluto carries power, depth, and rebirth. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.
The sextile offers a working relationship: when Mars reaches toward power, buried things, and rebirth, the door is usually open, though someone still has to walk through it.
Well used, it looks like courage that is well aimed and the power to remake yourself from the root in quiet agreement. Poorly used, the same ease slides into force for its own sake, since comfort rarely demands a correction.
Timing matters. When Mars forms this sextile to Pluto in the sky, it is a temporary weather system that comes and goes. Held in a natal chart, it describes something the person carries for life.
Here the sextile joins Mars (drive and desire) with Pluto (power and transformation), held 60° apart.
Right now
Mars and Pluto currently stand about 162.6° apart, 102.6° away from an exact sextile. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact sextiles
| 16 April 2026 | most recent |
| 22 October 2027 | upcoming |
| 30 March 2028 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
Where these two stand today
Related sextiles
In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about sextiles · all aspects.