Mars sextile Neptune
Het Monster: Supernatural energy: these people may be involved in occultism. Often clairvoyant. They know how to handle secret matters, bypassing obstacles. Like Mercury-Neptune, this aspect gives military strategists, as well as dancers, actors, performers who master their bodies brilliantly. It is also favorable for directors and photographers. They see through people, making it hard to deceive them.
Catherine Aubier: Mars sextile Neptune
Combination: actions are guided by inspiration. The person must defend their ideals in struggle, trying to involve others in this fight. Their passionate, relentless activity is sometimes chaotic, as they do not consider the demands of the moment. Their strength lies in faith, in absolute sincerity. However, they may err in assessing the significance of the cause they defend.
Trine, sextile: the same meanings, but less sharply expressed. Inspired activity, supported by infallible intuition and a subtle perception of the irrational.
A. Podvodny: Mars sextile Neptune
Mars sextile:
Work may be a burden or a livelihood, but never an honor. The Mars sextile gives a person the ability to refine and elevate the vibrational level of the energy flow inherent to the planet. It opens prospects for constructive activity, during which the planet (and Mars) is processed, and the person learns to align their strength and energy with the needs of the planet—this may present some difficulties and require effort, but they will not seem excessive. If, on the contrary, they reject all opportunities for constructive activity related to the planet, they will soon feel that the energy within them finds no satisfying outlet and stagnates, which over time can lead to depression, a sense of inferiority, or sharp disharmonious energy surges (external aggression).
From an internal perspective, this aspect provides an opportunity to raise the frequencies of one’s own energy, achieved through the interaction and visible adaptation of the subconscious programs associated with the planet and energetic, including ancient instincts, which take on a more civilized form as a result. Here, processing allows destructive and low-energy impulses from the external world to be channeled into constructive frameworks. For example, a processed Mars-Pluto sextile can produce an educator working with antisocial adolescents.
Neptune sextile:
“If you can understand—understand, for such an opportunity will not come again.” The Neptune sextile gives a person the potential for true comprehension of the planet’s principle, but it requires effort—often of a kind they are neither prepared for nor accustomed to. Neptune distorts reality, both external and internal, and processing the sextile means steering clear of gross distortions and illusions labeled as deception and self-deception, toward subtle ones—some called art, others meditation, still others prayer…
Thus, the choice offered by the Neptune sextile (which may demand great inner effort and work) leads the person toward finer distortions and subtler temptations. At some point, the level and manner of perceiving the planet’s principle may suddenly become revelatory for others—if the person succeeds in conveying their vision, which also requires effort. At a high level, the Neptune sextile provides a subtle understanding of the planet’s principle and its integration into such vibrational energy flows that it creates the impression of revelation or a religious miracle. The person may be barely aware of what or why they are doing it, but the sensation of elevated flow and simultaneous strong resistance from the material will serve as indirect signs of achieved mastery.
At a low level, the Neptune sextile offers many opportunities for deception and self-deception, but also a sense of attraction to the planet’s principle and ecstatic feelings while mastering it. However, this demands much diligence, especially in cultivating inner honesty when evaluating one’s true achievements. If the planet is afflicted, the person may avoid unpleasant realities by retreating into a world of illusions—with Neptune’s help, of course—but sooner or later, harsh disappointments or blows of fate will follow. False pity differs from genuine compassion, which the person clearly senses when it is directed toward them.
