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Neptune sextile Pluto

Neptune sextile Pluto, within one nativity or between two charts in synastry

What the tradition reads

Neptune sextile Pluto is generational, Cafe Astrology notes, shared by many people born while the slow-moving pair holds this angle, its traits more obvious in a chart where Neptune or Pluto is also aligned with the Sun, Moon or Ascendant. With the sextile in the birth chart, the tradition reads a desire and an ability to see the layers beneath a situation, drawn to a noble cause, a sense of purpose and a passion for more than the merely ordinary; intrigued by what makes things work, especially what is hidden, the source credits the placement with an interest in both science and psychological motivation, and with treating a sense of evolution and regeneration as essential to spirit and personal determination. Between two charts, a sextile from one person's Neptune to another's Pluto is read as a sense of common values, understanding between the two getting a subtle boost from the contact; Cafe Astrology notes that this synastry aspect is especially common between partners who already carry Neptune sextile Pluto natally in their own separate charts, a further sign of how closely the natal and synastry readings of this pair track each other.

The story

A sextile is sixty degrees, a sixth of the circle, one of the four configurations Ptolemy names, formed between signs of the same gender; Ptolemy's chapter on the mutual configuration of the signs calls the sextile, together with the trine, harmonious, and Wikipedia's own summary describes it as similar in influence to the trine but less intense, indicating compatibility and harmony that eases communication and opens opportunity. Poseidon and Hades are brothers, two of the six children Cronus and Rhea bore according to the Hesiod genealogy the Pluto myth page relates; when the world was divided three ways, the sea fell to Poseidon and the underworld to Hades, so the brothers rule adjoining domains beneath the sky their brother Zeus rules from above. The same page notes that the underworld god was also worshipped as Plouton, a name tied to the Greeks' own sense that mineral wealth found underground belonged to the same chthonic power that governed the earth's dead. Set at this easy angle, the sea's vast, dissolving depths and the underworld's hidden, transformative ones are read as sharing a single family likeness, each a version of the other's business conducted in a different element.

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Corpus key aspect:Neptune:Pluto:sextile.