Henk Monster: Friendship with the opposite sex. A good marriage. They are loved and respected everywhere. If there are no conflicting aspects — good parents. Good health. Balance. Harmony between feelings and will.
Catherine Haigh: Sun sextile Moon. Trine, sextile: these aspects generally indicate psychological balance and excellent adaptability. Directed toward seeking harmony, such a person knows how to feel and think by analogy, searching for similarities and affinities, yet tends to reject anything that does not conform to their ideal. Sensitivity and imagination are combined with a sense of reality. They succeed in achieving harmony in a relationship with another person, provided other details of the horoscope do not contradict this; such a union is better for them than solitude and preferable even to broad social life. They sincerely believe that between people of opposite sexes there are no differences significant enough to prevent mutual understanding and harmonious coexistence. They desire to achieve success both in public and family life, making no concessions in either sphere. Astrological tradition suggests that these aspects in a person’s chart indicate agreement between the parents. However, this seems not to reflect reality—at least in our time, when divorces are so frequent and greatly distort the whole picture. In truth, it is more accurate to say that for someone with a harmonious Sun-Moon aspect in their chart, even parental quarrels witnessed by them serve only as an additional incentive to seek harmony and believe in it.
A. Podvodny: Sun sextile Moon.
Sun sextile: An incorrect choice most often does not imply frivolity or error, but rather a betrayal of one’s God. The Sun sextile grants the individual opportunities in the areas ruled by the planet, the realization of which will require willpower, initiative, and possibly encountering quite firm, imperative circumstances. However, these circumstances will not be hostile; on the contrary, they are potentially friendly. The Sun sextile throws a masculine challenge to the individual (in the relevant planetary areas), inviting them to test their willpower—its ability to overcome obstacles and establish cooperation, where the obstacles are non-antagonistic and the cooperation is expected to be beneficial and effective. If the person does not feel ready to accept this challenge, they may refuse it: once, twice, three times… After some time, such a consistent refusal to accept any constructive proposals from fate begins to work against the individual; they degenerate and fall into rigid karmic programs where their choice is minimal or completely absent. On the other hand, the Sun sextile offers a very valuable opportunity to work through its principle—namely, one’s will—during constructive activity related to the planet. By resolving inner problems arising in connection with such activity, the person learns to properly direct their will, gains the ability to determine which egregore influences them, and to harmonize it with external circumstances and various subconscious programs.
For example, the Sun sextile Moon is a highly promising aspect. In particular, it provides great opportunities for both physical and spiritual development. At a high level, this is the aspect of spiritual teachers who deeply understand the relationship between higher and lower natures in a specific individual and are able to set them on a constructive path of evolutionary development.
Moon sextile: By overcoming their laziness, the person gives an impulse to social development. This aspect offers prospects for subconscious development in the areas ruled by the planet. For example, with Moon sextile Mars, the individual will have multiple opportunities throughout life to increase their physical strength and agility (an aspect of athletes), as well as to master skills requiring significant subconscious involvement (development of clear conditioned reflexes), such as various manual professions (e.g., housework), and so on.
The Moon sextile offers great prospects for spiritual development, as it proposes the possibility of constructively processing purely egoistic subconscious programs by elevating them to higher vibrations, and expanding the individual’s worldview (and their participation in the evolutionary process). For example, Moon sextile Venus provides real opportunities to transition from a passive-consumer attitude toward love and art (which will undoubtedly play a significant role in the person’s life) to an active-creative one: the person gains the opportunity (if desired) not only to be passively in love with another, but to rebuild that person through their own love—both the other and, consequently, themselves as well.
Similar effects will be observed in aesthetic development: the person will not only be interested in art and enjoy it according to their understanding (which is typical for the trine), but will often feel that merely perceiving others’ artworks is insufficient. Fate will provide them with various opportunities to participate in artistic creation, musical activity, etc., bringing inner satisfaction and, importantly, a much deeper understanding of art (with Moon trine Venus, such issues usually do not arise: the person is fully satisfied with their level of art appreciation and consumption, experiencing abundant divine love).
Inattention and persistent ignoring of the opportunities offered by the Moon sextile eventually lead to deep dissatisfaction with life and oneself (often projected onto others) and the triumph of superficial egoism in the areas ruled by the planet. Properly working with this aspect leads not only to refined creative development of the planetary principle but also to the individual’s overall spiritual growth through the constructive transformation of lower subconscious programs.
