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☉︎ ⚹︎ ♀︎ Sun sextile Venus
The Sun sextile Venus is an open door: the core self finds the power of attraction easy to reach, for anyone who bothers to walk through.
In this pairing the Sun carries selfhood, confidence, and creative vitality, while Venus carries love, pleasure, and taste. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.
The sextile offers a working relationship: when the Sun reaches toward love, beauty, and what we value, the door is usually open, though someone still has to walk through it.
Well used, it looks like a steady, generous sense of who you are and warmth that puts others at ease in quiet agreement. Poorly used, the same ease slides into pride that has to be the center, since comfort rarely demands a correction.
Timing matters. When Venus forms this sextile to the Sun 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 Sun (identity and vitality) with Venus (attraction and values), held 60° apart.
Right now
Sun and Venus currently stand about 43.8° apart, 16.2° away from an exact sextile. Watch it move on the live clock.
Where these two stand today
Related sextiles
In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about sextiles · all aspects.