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♂︎ ⚹︎ ☋︎ Mars sextile South Node

Sixty degrees apart and in sympathetic elements, Mars offers heat and nerve to old talents and comfortable habits without forcing anything.

Mars governs drive, courage, and appetite; the South Node governs inherited ease and old habit. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.

This is opportunity rather than gift. Heat and nerve is available to old talents and comfortable habits on request, with a little more push behind it than a trine would give.

As a transit, Mars moving to sextile the South 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 South Node (the familiar past), held 60° apart.

Right now

Mars and South Node currently stand about 43.0° apart, 17.0° 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

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

Where these two stand today

• Mars in Cancer
• South Node in Leo

Related sextiles

• Saturn sextile South Node
• Uranus sextile South Node
• Neptune sextile South Node

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