Mars Sextile Saturn

Here the boldness and the brake are offered to one another rather than forced together. Applied, the combination is quietly formidable: effort that goes where it is aimed, at a rate that can be maintained, with the tedious parts done in order. Such natives are good in emergencies for an unusual reason. They do not become calm, they become procedural, and a procedure carried out steadily is worth more than composure. Craftsmen, machinists, nurses and non-commissioned officers are full of this contact.

Unused, it produces nothing objectionable, which is exactly why it goes unused. There is no crisis to announce it and no visible penalty for leaving the workshop cold. Plenty of people with this sextile are simply somewhat lazy and somewhat capable, and the capability is only proved on the rare occasions when circumstances hand them a schedule. The aspect will not generate the schedule; it will honour one. That distinction accounts for the very different biographies found under an identical angle.

The cheapest way to take it up is to make one commitment with a fixed hour and a witness. Given that, the sextile supplies the rest: the willingness to do the same thing on a bad morning, the tolerance of unglamorous repetition, the refusal to be hurried by other people's panic. Anger is manageable under this angle, usually voiced late but voiced. The chief risk is not excess or collapse but a mild, lifelong under-use, which nothing in the chart will ever bring to the native's attention.