Moon Sextile Neptune

The offer here is a door rather than a flood. The native can enter another person's condition and come back out again, which is the whole difference between this contact and the conjunction. Feeling is available to the imagination and the imagination is available to feeling, so that a mood can be turned into a picture, a tune or a useful sentence. Nothing forces the exchange. A great many people with this angle live decently without ever discovering it, describing themselves as fond of films and good with animals and leaving it at that.

Taken up, it shows in specific competences. The native remembers dreams if they trouble to write them down, and finds the writing quickly becomes accurate about waking life. They are the friend called at two in the morning, because they neither panic nor lecture. Sick rooms, grieving households and frightened children settle around them. In creative work the contact supplies atmosphere rather than structure, which is why it pairs so well with a disciplined Mercury or Saturn elsewhere and does very little on its own.

The characteristic waste of a sextile is not damage but non use. Neglected, this one degrades into a vague preference for the soothing: pleasant music, undemanding company, a sentimental streak that never becomes compassion because it is never asked to do anything. The remedy is deliberately unglamorous. Volunteer work, a regular practice of any kind, or one person genuinely looked after will activate the whole configuration within a year. It responds to being used, and it responds quickly, which is more than can be said for most contacts in a chart.