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☽︎ ⚹︎ ☋︎ Moon sextile South Node

The sextile puts the Moon and the South Node on friendly terms: an opportunity between the feeling body and the familiar past that rewards a little initiative.

The Moon feels its way where there is instinct, mood, and the need for safety; the South Node looks back where there is old talents and comfortable habits. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

This is opportunity rather than gift. Tenderness and memory 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, the Moon 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 Moon (instinct and feeling) with South Node (the familiar past), held 60° apart.

Right now

Moon and South Node currently stand about 65.4° apart, 5.4° 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 Moon
• Moon conjunction South Node
• Moon square South Node
• Moon trine South Node
• Moon opposition South Node

Where these two stand today

• Moon in Gemini
• South Node in Leo

Related sextiles

• Venus sextile South Node
• Mars sextile South Node
• Jupiter sextile South Node

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