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♀︎ ⚹︎ ♂︎ Venus sextile Mars
Venus sextile Mars is an open door: the power of attraction finds the will to act easy to reach, for anyone who bothers to walk through.
Venus governs love, pleasure, and taste; Mars governs drive, courage, and appetite. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.
This is opportunity rather than gift. Charm and ease is available to desire, courage, and conflict on request, with a little more push behind it than a trine would give.
At its best this reads as warmth that puts others at ease working alongside courage that is well aimed. The easy aspects ask little, so the risk is drift: a taste for comfort that avoids the hard thing, left unchallenged because nothing pushes back.
As a transit, Venus moving to sextile Mars 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 Venus (attraction and values) with Mars (drive and desire), held 60° apart.
Right now
Venus and Mars currently stand about 100.4° apart, 40.4° away from an exact sextile. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact sextiles
| 19 May 2026 | most recent |
| 10 November 2026 | upcoming |
| 12 December 2026 | upcoming |
| 7 August 2027 | 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.