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☿︎ ⚹︎ ♃︎ Mercury sextile Jupiter
The sextile puts Mercury and Jupiter on friendly terms: an opportunity between the thinking mind and the appetite for more that rewards a little initiative.
In this pairing Mercury carries thinking, talking, and trading, while Jupiter carries growth, belief, and good fortune. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.
This is opportunity rather than gift. Quickness and wit 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 a clear, agile, curious mind working alongside generous faith that opens doors. The easy aspects ask little, so the risk is drift: nervous talk that never lands, left unchallenged because nothing pushes back.
As a transit, Mercury 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 Mercury (mind and message) with Jupiter (expansion and faith), held 60° apart.
Right now
Mercury and Jupiter currently stand about 35.9° apart, 24.1° away from an exact sextile. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact sextiles
| 13 May 2026 | most recent |
| 21 September 2026 | upcoming |
| 19 May 2027 | upcoming |
| 25 November 2027 | upcoming |
| 21 July 2028 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
- Jupiter sextile Mercury
- Mercury conjunction Jupiter
- Mercury square Jupiter
- Mercury trine Jupiter
- Mercury opposition Jupiter
Where these two stand today
Related sextiles
In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about sextiles · all aspects.