Aspects
Mercury Sextile Midheaven
You have a ready, workable link between your mind and your life direction. Mercury A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. your The highest point of the chart, also called the MC, marking the top of the sky at your birth. It speaks to career, reputation, and your public direction. offers recurring openings to bring your intellect and communication into your vocation, chances to use your ideas, writing, or voice in your public role when you reach for them. Unlike the A flowing, supportive aspect between planets about 120 degrees apart, usually in the same element. Things come easily here, sometimes too easily to notice.'s easy fit, this contact rewards initiative: the people who actively pursue work that engages their mind get the most from it. There is a versatile mental competence you can put to use. The lifelong opportunity is to keep stepping through the open doors, steadily building a public life that lets your thinking and your communication do real work in the world.
Lean in — Pursue work that actively engages your mind and voice.
Watch for — Wait for an intellectually engaging role to arrive on its own.
- mercury
- midheaven
- sextile
- opportunity
Sources
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Mercury's sextile to the Midheaven as a defining statement about how the mind meets vocation and public life.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Gives the modern natal reading of Mercury's sextile to the Midheaven as a core feature of the birth chart's mind.
- Carter, The Astrological Aspects (1930)Carter sets out the classic natal character of Mercury's sextile to the Midheaven in the native's nature.