Aspects
Mars Sextile Venus
Modern
Your love nature and your drive cooperate, so you can pursue what attracts you without drama: easy charm, healthy desire, the nerve to make a move. It is a pleasant, usable gift. The catch is leaving it idle when nothing pushes you. The growth is actually using the boldness to go after what you want. At your best you blend warmth and courage into real magnetism.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
A sixty-degree aspect joins the two in easy agreement, and Ptolemy counts the A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. among the harmonious configurations. Between Venus and Mars it lets affection and drive cooperate: the native pursues love with grace, blends warmth and boldness, and acts on desire without strain. The gift is an easy magnetism and a healthy give-and-take of wanting; the cost is that the spark can sit unused, the courage to pursue never tested.
Lean in — Use the easy boldness to actually pursue what you want.
Watch for — Let the magnetism sit idle waiting to be noticed.
- magnetic
- warm
- bold
Sources
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, I.13Counts the sextile among the harmonious, agreeing configurations.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Venus-Mars sextile as warmth and boldness cooperating in desire.