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☿︎ ⚹︎ ♇︎ Mercury sextile Pluto

Sixty degrees apart and in sympathetic elements, Mercury offers quickness and wit to power, buried things, and rebirth without forcing anything.

In this pairing Mercury carries thinking, talking, and trading, 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 Mercury 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 a clear, agile, curious mind and the power to remake yourself from the root in quiet agreement. Poorly used, the same ease slides into nervous talk that never lands, since comfort rarely demands a correction.

Timing matters. When Mercury 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 Mercury (mind and message) with Pluto (power and transformation), held 60° apart.

Right now

Mercury and Pluto currently stand about 133.1° apart, 73.1° 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

• Pluto sextile Mercury
• Mercury conjunction Pluto
• Mercury square Pluto
• Mercury trine Pluto
• Mercury opposition Pluto

Where these two stand today

• Mercury in Virgo
• Pluto in Aquarius

Related sextiles

• Moon sextile Pluto
• Venus sextile Pluto
• Mars sextile Pluto

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