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Venus sextile Jupiter

Venus sextile Jupiter, within one nativity or between two charts in synastry

What the tradition reads

Within a single chart Venus sextile Jupiter is read as an easy smile, a warm and responsive sense of humor, and a rather easygoing manner: sources describe people for whom incorporating humor into romantic and sexual moments comes naturally, quick to lend a helping hand if the need arises. Between two charts, one person's Venus sextile another's Jupiter is read as one of the most positive aspects synastry offers, ensuring much warmth and the ability to get over the partnership's own snags; sources describe forgiveness, graciousness, mutual confidence and generosity, the couple attracting good fortune and social opportunity while keeping an optimistic, authentic care for each other.

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. Aphrodite and Zeus share a family connection in the Greek sources: some accounts make her his own daughter by Dione, others give her an older birth from the sea foam gathered after Uranus's fall.

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Corpus key aspect:Venus:Jupiter:sextile.