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☿︎ ⚹︎ ♀︎ Mercury sextile Venus
The sextile puts Mercury and Venus on friendly terms: an opportunity between the thinking mind and the power of attraction that rewards a little initiative.
In this pairing Mercury carries thinking, talking, and trading, while Venus carries love, pleasure, and taste. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.
This is opportunity rather than gift. Quickness and wit is available to love, beauty, and what we value 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 warmth that puts others at ease. 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 Venus 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 Venus (attraction and values), held 60° apart.
Right now
Mercury and Venus 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 August 2026 | most recent |
| 23 January 2027 | upcoming |
| 8 February 2027 | upcoming |
| 11 February 2028 | upcoming |
| 28 March 2028 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
- Venus sextile Mercury
- Mercury conjunction Venus
- Mercury square Venus
- Mercury trine Venus
- Mercury opposition Venus
Where these two stand today
Related sextiles
In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about sextiles · all aspects.