Two signs apart, the Sun and Moon sit in compatible elements without sharing one, so the native's purpose and their habits can be brought into line by a small deliberate effort. The effort is the whole condition. Nothing here happens on its own. A person with this contact who decides on a routine will keep it, and a person who never decides will drift with no more difficulty than anyone else and no less. The aspect confers no urgency, which is why so many carry it without ever noticing.
Where it is taken up, the results are unglamorous and durable. Domestic arrangements support the work rather than competing with it. The native can go home after a difficult day and actually rest, then return to the same difficulty without dread. Family and ambition are not set at odds, so there is no dramatic choice to be made at thirty between the career and the household. In an argument the native can state a feeling and a reason in the same breath, which settles more disputes than eloquence ever does.
The waste is real and silent. A sextile that is never used leaves no scar and no complaint, only a life slightly smaller than it needed to be. Because nothing hurts, nothing prompts the native to look. Astrologers reading such a chart should press on what the native has been meaning to begin for several years, since that is usually where the unspent opportunity is lodged. Small and repeated action is the only method that suits this angle. Grand resolutions overshoot it and collapse within the month.
What It Gives
- ◆home life that supports the work
- ◆genuine rest after difficulty
- ◆feeling and reason stated together
- ◆routines that hold once chosen
What It Costs
- ◆opportunity left permanently unopened
- ◆no discomfort to prompt action
- ◆resolutions pitched too large
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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