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☿︎ ⚹︎ ☋︎ Mercury sextile South Node

Mercury sextile the South Node is an open door: the thinking mind finds the familiar past easy to reach, for anyone who bothers to walk through.

In this pairing Mercury carries thinking, talking, and trading, while the South Node carries inherited ease and old habit. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.

This is opportunity rather than gift. Quickness and wit 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, Mercury 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 Mercury (mind and message) with South Node (the familiar past), held 60° apart.

Right now

Mercury and South Node currently stand about 21.3° apart, 38.7° 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 Mercury
• Mercury conjunction South Node
• Mercury square South Node
• Mercury trine South Node
• Mercury opposition South Node

Where these two stand today

• Mercury in Virgo
• South Node in Leo

Related sextiles

• Mars sextile South Node
• Jupiter sextile South Node
• Saturn sextile South Node

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