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The Moon sextile Uranus

the Moon sextile Uranus, within one nativity or between two charts in synastry

What the tradition reads

Within a single chart the Moon sextile Uranus is read as a preference for living in an open and accepting manner, encouraging other people to simply be themselves rather than insisting they conform to any single expectation. The tradition reads the sextile as calling on this openness rather than being flooded by it the way the conjunction is, the native able to draw on Uranus's own freedom when it is useful without losing the Moon's own underlying need for comfort in the process. Between two charts, one person's Moon sextile another's Uranus is read among the pairing's gentler contacts: the relationship's unusual quality is less likely to be felt as disruptive here than in the harder aspects, and the couple can enjoy being a little mischievous together, a pleasing shared sense of humor and a tendency to shake things up every once in a while read as play rather than as instability.

The story

A sextile is sixty degrees, a sixth of the circle, one of the four configurations Ptolemy names, read through the compatible signs it joins and asking for a degree of active engagement before its ease is felt; Wikipedia's own summary of the aspect calls it similar to the trine but less intense, indicating compatibility and harmony. Uranus carries into this pairing the oldest sky god the Greeks named, Ouranos: born of Gaia and then her mate, he fathered the Titans, the Cyclopes and the Hundred Handed Ones, then hid each of them away inside their own mother out of dislike for what he had made, until Cronus, the one child willing to act, castrated him at Gaia's own urging and ended his reign outright; Uranus himself barely appears in the myths that follow. Set at this easier angle, Selene's own steadiness is not overthrown but simply invited to loosen, the myth's oldest lesson in sudden change made available to instinct without being forced upon it, called on when useful rather than always in effect.

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Corpus key aspect:Moon:Uranus:sextile.