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☽︎ ⚹︎ ♀︎ Moon sextile Venus
The sextile puts the Moon and Venus on friendly terms: an opportunity between the feeling body and the power of attraction that rewards a little initiative.
The Moon feels its way where there is instinct, mood, and the need for safety; Venus draws close where there is love, beauty, and what we value. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.
This is opportunity rather than gift. Tenderness and memory 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 nourishing, honest emotional instinct working alongside warmth that puts others at ease. The easy aspects ask little, so the risk is drift: moods that rule the day, left unchallenged because nothing pushes back.
As a transit, the Moon 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 Moon (instinct and feeling) with Venus (attraction and values), held 60° apart.
Right now
Moon and Venus currently stand about 122.7° apart, 62.7° away from an exact sextile. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact sextiles
| 21 August 2026 | most recent |
| 9 September 2026 | upcoming |
| 19 September 2026 | upcoming |
| 7 October 2026 | upcoming |
| 16 October 2026 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
Where these two stand today
Related sextiles
In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about sextiles · all aspects.