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Uranus sextile Pluto

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

What the tradition reads

Uranus sextile Pluto makes for a creative genius and a reformer, astrologyking.com's page on the pair notes, someone with enough personal freedom to express real uniqueness, subconsciously linked to their own generation and sharing its futuristic ideals; the source also credits the aspect with a curiosity about death and immortality that can lead toward religion, spirituality or occult study, and with an interest in social justice, human rights and environmental causes that at its strongest becomes active reform. Within one chart, Cafe Astrology's transit reading for the sextile describes a fine, gentle chance to detach from attachments that have become burdensome or unhealthy, release from a weighty secret or concern figuring strongly and nudging a person forward, without the disruption the pair's harder contacts bring. Between two charts, a sextile from one person's Uranus to another's Pluto places the two planets a sixth of the circle apart, sixty degrees; because the two planets move so slowly, similarly aged partners often already share a comparable placement natally, within their own separate charts, and the sources consulted for this entry give no separate reading for the synastry contact itself.

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. Uranus and Hades never meet directly in the myths that survive: Uranus, the primordial sky, was overthrown by his own son Cronus generations before the Olympian order that produced Hades had even been founded, Gaia having armed Cronus with a sickle of adamant and urged him to the deed. Hades belongs to that later Olympian generation, one of the six children Cronus and Rhea bore according to Hesiod; when the world was divided three ways among Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the underworld fell to Hades, who presides there over the ending every mortal life eventually reaches. Set at this easy angle, the planet of sudden rupture and the planet of the deepest, most total transformation are read as sharing a single, cooperative business, each ending clearing ground, in the tradition's own telling, for whatever comes next.

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Corpus key aspect:Uranus:Pluto:sextile.